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Does any company know exactly what they’re doing with data they’ve collected, from transactions to employee logs? While businesses want to monetize data, lawmakers demand that it comply with Europe’s latest General Data Protection Regulation. And the pros and cons of public cloud computing versus the …
Who will corner digital healthcare’s potential trillion-dollar market?
Healthcare may be the next big industry to undergo overhaul via big data and artificial intelligence technologies. Bureaucratic lag and privacy jitters notwithstanding, such progressive tech could revolutionize how doctors and patients diagnose and treat ailments. So are insurgent startups or deep-pocketed legacies best …
Apigee, Istio, Kubernetes shake on making microservices act like APIs
The cutting-edge, cloud-native application everyone lusts after these days often includes these ingredients: microservices, containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) and Kubernetes, a platform to orchestrate those containers. That none are exactly child’s play to manage may explain why many …
At Google Cloud Next, debate bubbles over cloud’s future and market metrics
The sentiment in Silicon Valley is that Google Cloud Platform is the underdog in a race against Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Cloud. Journalists and analysts put their ears to the ground at Google Cloud Next 2018 and listened …
Analysis: Google’s specialized cloud products set it apart from big rival AWS
Why bring cloud computing to market if it’s just to copy what Amazon Web Services Inc. is already doing so well? Enterprise-grade cloud competitors such as Microsoft Corp. Azure and Google Cloud Platform must answer that question to customers. Google’s answer is easy: ready-to-use services …
Google serves streamlined value prop at Google Cloud Next
What business wouldn’t emulate the richest company in the world? Google’s technology is years ahead of the industry; by adopting it, a car maker could become the Google of automotive, right? Not precisely, but they could skim some of Google’s sexy sauce, …
Bosses shush ad men excuses with advanced data tech
Data is driving novel money-making methods across business departments, particularly the numbers-driven marketing and sales divisions. Riding shotgun are new accountability standards for payrollers in these respective fiefs. When the boss puts data in one hand, he or she strips excuses from the other …
Data you can’t see can’t make bank. How do you scope it out?
Is data the new oil? Is data the most valuable asset a modern enterprise possesses? Is it the new currency? Most enterprises would answer, “Yes,” to all of the above. But do they actually know where all their data is? Many would …
Who’s doing data assets best? Analysts weigh in at MIT CDOIQ Symposium
Whenever anyone starts a conversation about using data as a business asset, it tends to conclude with this consensus: ‘We’re not there yet.’ Companies living the dream aren’t very many, but their ranks are slowly growing, and their successes can serve as …
Move over apps, crypto protocols could be new internet moneybags
The Ethereum blockchain protocol, bousted with protections from fraud and third-party interference, is the hottest thing in cryptocurrency. Transactions on the decentralized platform for running and programming software applications now triple the number of rival bitcoin transactions, according to data by Bitinfocharts. Other blockchain …