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What do you call a sweltering hot AWS cloud startup? The nation of Bahrain
Cheap and easy cloud infrastructure has given legs to startups that could never have footed the bill for a classic data center. Can its affordability and low barriers to entry allow entire nations to remake their economies? Amazon Web Services Inc. is betting the answer is yes; it’s intensifying efforts to marshal cloud technology toward ...
Here’s what happens when employees in the trenches track DIY KPIs
How does a business choose its metrics and key performance indicators? Do the people at the highest levels of the C-suite know what matters most on the ground? Could employees working beneath them have a better idea of what should be tracked and reported? As a matter of fact, they might, and code-free tools that ...
In the ‘liquid enterprise,’ employees call software shots, do it faster
There’s a shift happening in companies, giving workers greater choice in how they get their work done. Organically, through their selection of software tools, employee choices are trickling up to management. How do managers feel about relinquishing control, and how will it affect productivity and the ultimate direction of businesses? In the past, centralized teams of ...
PayPal learned Smartsheet with just YouTube videos, and it’s paying off
What are the measures of excellent software for work? Perhaps it’s ease of use, a brief learning curve, and time- and money-saving capabilities. PayPal Holdings Inc. scored all of the above when it learned and implemented a brand new tool just by watching some YouTube videos. The tool in question is Smartsheet Inc.’s work- and collaboration-management ...
The new breed of data platforms is tolerant of hybrid clouds
Despite good intentions, big-data frameworks and platforms like Apache Hadoop created a lot of murky data swamps. The time and effort needed to make the data therein useful left a lot of users unimpressed. The new breed of data platform builds on those lessons so users can get out as much as they put into ...
Curb the urge to automate if there’s no business case
If it can be automated it should be automated, right? Maybe. Maybe not. If a business with limited time, people and resources goes on a blind automation spree that ultimately doesn’t reduce expenditures or make them more profit, what is that good for? Instead, companies should take the long view and ask what tangible benefit ...
We’re all project managers now, so grab your collab tools, says Forrester
The digital transformation is changing the way businesspeople get work done. Three-fourths of respondents in a Forrester Research Inc. survey said projects in their organizations are more widely distributed than before, with more employees expected to contribute. The influx of input basically benefits outcomes but can be difficult to manage without effective collaboration tools. “Everybody ...
Automation will take huge bite off security officer’s plate by 2020
The security operations centers, or SOCs, in organizations are about to get some extra hands to help fight attacks — not from humans, though. Technologies that automate a big chunk of security tasks are gaining popularity, and they’re the best chance society has against the novel technology threat types barreling full speed ahead, according to Haiyan Song ...
Modern security, digital biz demand real-time data
Real-time has hit the big time in the data-analytics market for good reason. As businesses go digital, responding to customers before the next guy can make or break a sale. Security is also becoming more time sensitive as novel threats demand that security pros analyze and defend against them ASAP. Splunk Inc.’s data-analytics platform helps ...
Carnival gets data into all hands on deck with Splunk
If there’s one nugget among the heap of big data tools, tricks, and marketing fluff that businesses can actually use, it could be data democratization. This takes big data from a backroom concept to something business people can polish their product with day-in-day-out. Tools like these are winning customers whose ongoing concern is product or ...
