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Storage by containers for containers cures Kubernetes quandary
Container fanatics are proffering both solid grains of truth and magical-thinking bubbles to the masses. Operating on-premises and in public cloud? No problem — put them in containers, the virtualized method for running distributed software, and they’ll go anywhere. Legacy applications need a cloud makeover? Containers make them good as new. Sifting fact from fiction in ...
Smell 5G’s IoT mojo cooking in Intel’s collab kitchen
Edge-computing use cases come in a range of shapes and sizes. Localizing data for analytics, internet of things edge devices and mobile computing are a few examples. They require different approaches, which can make perfecting a one-size edge-compute recipe tricky. Could the edge perhaps meet its versatile, multilane match in 5G networking? “When you’re in ...
AWS says Gov needs procurement reform to speed up DX
Some ginormous names in the public sector — such as the U.S. Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency — have made their preference for cloud computing known. The broader reality in government, though, is that most agencies could be doing a great deal more in terms of modernizing and digitizing their computing architectures and ...
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State and local agencies get over their cloud growing pains
The public cloud is increasingly becoming safe for public-sector entities. The U.S. Department of Defense has joined the Central Intelligence Agency to entrust some of the most-sensitive data on earth to cloud providers. With these two reassuring examples, state and local governments are also wading into cloud, but not without some growing pains. Amazon Web Services Inc.’s ...
Can app-level abstractions rescue new networks from their complexity?
What’s a bigger, hairier chore than provisioning a network fit for modern distributed information technology? Perhaps maintaining all its winding, intersecting trafficways day in and day out. This requires a set of all-seeing eyes that spot issues before they cause serious problems. “You can’t use tools that were built 20 years ago to continue operating ...
Telco cloud is new weapon of service providers vs. hyperscalers
Service providers are swimming surprisingly well with hyperscale-cloud hammerheads. In fact, cloud technologies give them fertile new ground on which to build novel offerings. They’re looking specifically at the telecommunication cloud and 5G networking to alter their services and their delivery modes. “The [service provider] market is going through a mass scale transformation — a ...
New data services are older companies’ key to staying relevant
The companies of tomorrow will flounder or float depending on how well they serve customers with data. Today, established companies can and should juice their data for improved services to stay relevant. Those established companies keeping pace with startups are smartly leveraging their data in new ways. “I say to banks, ‘You don’t need to ...
Meet the new boss: Smarter tech gives employees the power
What will work look like in the smart, connected, internet-enabled future? New technology supporting edge computing, from 5G networks to machine learning, means employees can ditch the cubicle and work remotely. It could also make workers so efficient they could whittle their work week down to four days. Advancing tech will give employees a bigger say in how ...
‘Docujams’ and other ways to pump data with people power
Many employees fantasize about the day when they can sleep in and let data do their jobs for them. While data-analytics software is getting sharper, humans are nowhere near out of the loop yet. Savvy makers and users of data software are incorporating human elements in new, productive, and even fun ways. Aaron Kalb (pictured), ...
New ‘data platform’ with AI, APIs whips up instant gratification
Move on out, data lake. Companies no longer have patience for huge vats of random, unorganized data. Today, they want usable, analytics-ready data at their fingertips. It’s a tall order, but technologies like artificial intelligence and application program interfaces are making it a reality. They’re important building blocks of what some are calling the “data platform” ...
