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Social media managers and other reasons AI won’t leave us all jobless
Stories in the news about automation technology making human hands obsolete may paint an incomplete picture of the future of the workplace. The point at which data-driven analytics and automation meet people is actually a wide open space for new types of work, according to some. “I think McKinsey’s study says only 5 percent of ...
NetApp sets out to prove multicloud prowess at Insight 2018
A lot of dins are coming from NetApp Inc.’s marketing department about transforming into something more than a storage company. But what exactly is that something? According to the company’s marketing executives, it’s all to do with data management for multicloud. Is there any beef to this claim, and where does that place NetApp in the ...
John Hennessy former Stanford president kicks off Mayfield’s People First Network content series
What makes a successful startup? Not one that flashes in the news with a hum of familiar buzzwords and makes a quick buck before fizzling out. Is it a boatload of Series A cash? An aggressive media blitz? Or just a market that hungers for that particular product at that particular time? It might be ...
Data-protection startups hug new infra curves, but are legacies more comfy?
The latest changes in infrastructure — namely the move from on-premises data centers to cloud — are so dramatic they’re rippling through other ancillary technologies. For example, customers with multicloud environments expect so many new capabilities from data backup, it’s practically become a whole different animal. “Nobody calls it backup anymore; the whole market is ...
Multicloud, GDPR are no country for the data blind
How important is it for a company to be able to see all of its data all the time? As they adopt more cloud computing reservoirs than they can count on both hands, and the General Data Protection Regulation is imposing painful fines for compliance slips, it’s becoming pretty darned crucial. And those are just a ...
Raising apps-to-infra awareness when IT’s gone wild
Computing infrastructure and software applications have gone wild. Multiple clouds, edge devices and applications are distributed, federated and generally running errant all over the place. Realistically, most companies simply can’t contain everything in a single location anymore. They might, however, be able to see all these wild things and what they are up to via ...
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APIs are leaving crypto door ajar to burglars, says white-hat hacker
White-hat bounty hunters put enterprises’ cybersecurity systems to the test for pay. Their clients figure it’s preferable to pay a skilled hacker a reasonable fee to point out vulnerabilities than wait for a black hat to rob them blind. These pros are now putting cryptocurrency exchanges and initial coin offerings to the test — and ...
‘Explainable AI’ crunches data seven ways to Sunday
Is any term in technology today buzzing louder than machine learning? Maybe artificial intelligence. Aren’t they they same thing, sort of? Sort of. Customers need to get clear on what they expect ML or AI to actually do before they shop for a product. It may take the marrying of two or more types of AI to ...
Going to Oracle OpenWorld? Deets about Larry-the-Bear giveaway
Oracle Corp. is holding its yearly blowout conference, Oracle OpenWorld, in San Francisco, California, beginning next week. Sure to be among keynote topics are the evolution of the database in the cloud world, how Oracle is competing with database startups, and more. This year, attendees will have a chance to personally meet the database king himself, ...
Salesforce has competition from smarty-pants CRM startups
Anybody who’s known the joy of working in sales will recall the moment they gave up trying to read prospect’s minds. It’s no use. It’s a volume game. Just keep calling, emailing, following up with all the names on the contact list. The new breed of customer relationship management software might not make salespeople telepaths, ...
