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Dell EMC: ‘The edge’ is really thousands of different usage models
What does the term edge actually mean in computing? Loosely speaking, it is where internet of things connected devices — watches, windmills or autonomous cars, live. IoT and edge-to-cloud computing are fraught with hard latency, security and analytics problems. Can we expect a single, perfect model for edge computing to emerge soon? The edge itself ...
Managing the API army invading every corner of tech
Application program interfaces are nifty enablers of modern information technology and digital business. They allow for the integration of multicloud computing environments, and for apps to easily beam data to countless others. Companies can even monetize their APIs by allowing other companies to use and integrate them. Suffice it to say that the more APIs around, the ...
Vegas expands Smart City initiative, aims to be world’s ‘tech embassy’
The term smart city might evoke scenes from “The Fifth Element” for many people. While flying cars may be a ways off, cities around the world are implementing technology to improve citizens’ lives. They can become safer and easier to get around with available technologies like internet of things sensors and data analytics. The city of Las ...
Unified Workspace bakes Dell portfolio into serviced, end-to-end cookie
How does a company with a large, almost unwieldy product portfolio win over modern enterprises hungry for simplicity? It can mix several products into single end-to-end solutions and service them to make light work for users. That is what Dell EMC aims to do with its large inventory of infrastructure, services and software. For example, it ...
Mapwize and Cisco put eyes, ears and analytics in buildings
GPS systems and Google Maps have helped countless lost drivers reach their destinations. What about patients lost in a maze of hospital hallways? Or students rushing to make a class on a winding college campus? Wi-Fi 6, sensors and mapping tech are birthing a new breed of navigation and monitoring applications. “What we see is ...
Cisco DevNet’s nitty-gritty projects churn out real-world code, apps
Cisco Systems Inc. is doing its share to speed up the application-development spin cycle. Its DevNet community projects have hundreds of thousands of developers and infrastructure pros writing, tweaking and sharing code. They’re contributing code back into Cisco’s community, to open source, and putting it in production at their companies. Over 75% of the content ...
The new rules for monitoring hectic modern IT Ops
The new cloud-computing environments may be lighter and less clunky than older information technology systems. But they’re not necessarily less complex. They’re made of many compounded services and abstraction layers. They require a new set of binoculars to monitor the busy, ephemeral goings-on inside them. The key is to shift from monitoring devices or nodes to ...
Stanford lab brings gender-bias ‘intervention’ to tech companies
There has been a lot of talk lately about bias in computing code and artificial-intelligence models. It’s perhaps not surprising, considering the demographic skew in most companies that develop these technologies. The issue is inspiring new efforts to keep human bias out of tech companies and products. VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University examines ...
25-year women-in-tech vet on education pipeline vs. workplace bias
Tech companies all over Silicon Valley regularly take heat for the lack of diversity among their employees. There are many different opinions as to why gender and ethnic representation is so skewed. Early education, pipeline deficiencies, bias in management, and genetic factors have all been suggested. One woman who’s worked in technology for 25 years ...
Digital-twin tech reigns in runaway network complexity
Networking technology is undergoing renovations. Vendors are bringing out products that flip the network for multicloud and distributed information technology. These new network types can be a complex, layered handful from an operational perspective. Without visibility into the entire network, operations teams are left guessing about the effects of changes to their systems. Improved network ...
