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Harry Potter computing can’t make hardware go ‘poof’ yet
Just because lots of businesses have chucked their data center hardware and moved to cloud infrastructure as a service, doesn’t mean hardware has dissolved in a black hole. Cloud providers hyper-optimize hardware that can make or break the software and applications found further up the stack. So how far should customers jut their noses into ...
Amazon’s smartphone jinx is AI voice competitors’ juju
How many artificial intelligence voice assistants are too many? Do people wish to manage all of their “internet of things” connected devices — TVs, speakers, lights, locks, etc. — with the same familiar digital chum? If they do, the consumer IoT market may tilt toward the company with the best-liked assistant on the most used ...
Can precision medicine break chokehold on healthcare big data?
Big data analytics has bestowed the gift of personalization on a range of industries. For example, marketers can target consumers with data-fed recommendation engines like those on Amazon.com. Now, it’s positioned medicine on the brink of a revolution in individualized treatment. Precision medicine can enable healthcare professionals to prevent and treat illness with granularity down ...
Cloud and smartphone big dogs battle for everyday AI
It’s one thing to connect an “internet of things” device to a network; it’s quite another to link a menagerie of devices — in the car, the kitchen, the basement, wrapped around a person’s wrist — together. This is the feat Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Amazon Web Services Inc. and others have set out on with their connected ...
No ‘I’ in DevOps: Engineers spill secrets to Yelp’s hyper agility
Development operations, or DevOps, isn’t a job title; it’s not a single software tool, either. It’s a philosophy embodied by agile people using agile technology for agile business. “Pre-DevOps was: The software developers make a thing, and then they throw it over the fence and operations picks it up. And they’re like, ‘Well, what do ...
Preventing zero-day exploits, malware with automated security
Increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks are giving security professionals bigger fish to fry than malware minnows on the network firewall. Early detection and automated blocking can free them up to fight tougher battles if and when they arise, according to Terry Ramos (pictured), vice president of business development at Palo Alto Networks Inc. “A simple piece of malware? They ...
Crowded Splunk community kitchen serves piping hot product dev
Splunk Inc. shares shot through the ceiling in 2017, climbing 62 percent year-over-year. What’s the company’s recipe for such sizable gains? For starters, there’s no such thing as too many cooks in Splunk’s kitchen, i.e., the SplunkTrust community of helpers. “We’re not just a group to rubber stamp anything that Splunk does. But we’re also ...
AI gets a little more action from multicloud service management
Information technology service management refers to practices that keep end-to-end IT services chugging smoothly from companies to their customers. The adoption of multicloud methods means routes have become a bit confusing for IT teams to steer through. Artificial-intelligence-powered software tools may help them see past the bends and deliver the goods on time. “The future of ...
CRM juiced with AI turns conversations to conversions
Marketers and sales reps are struggling to inch conversion rates over 2.5 percent with fresh, purpose-built technologies. But their best efforts will fall as flat as straight-to-spam email if they don’t nail the timeless arts of effective closing. Specifically, they must engage prospects in personalized conversations. This was almost impossible to do at scale — ...
Dell EMC answers HCI naysayers with custom servers for on-prem cloud
To set a group of techies squabbling, ask: Is hyperconverged infrastructure cloud? Some will insist it’s not; others will counter that it counts as private, on-premises cloud or that it’s cloud-like. Perhaps some HCI setups can provide a highly configurable experience to rival public cloud; at any rate, purist definitions of cloud hardly concern satisfied ...
