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New, improved management cures cloud-networking reliability snafus
There’s no cloud computing without real, live computers somewhere on Earth. Physical infrastructure is alive and well for builders of both public and private clouds. In fact, hardware vendors are innovating advanced gear specifically for cloud, with networking being a key area of new development. “Cloud computing is changing the world, and the cloud data ...
Edge-to-AI platform brings distributed data on home to analysts
In analytics, the rule is that the larger the data set, the sharper the insights. But distributed IT, hybrid environments, and internet of things edge devices divide data into disparate pockets. It can be challenging for companies to haul it all in for holistic analytics. “If you’re a real data scientist, you want to have ...
Digital workers ply AI across apps to get job done quicker
Artificial intelligence within one application can assist users with predictions and insights. AI that works across applications — performing tasks, analyzing documents, etc. — does more. It can function as a digital worker that quickly does jobs humans would slog through all day. The idea of a robot that could work on a person’s behalf ...
Automation Anywhere serves up platform to public for free
Can automation really make all of us better at our jobs? Secretaries, writers, astronomers, Uber drivers, sous-chefs? It may sound like a stretch, but it’s the gist of Automation Anywhere Inc.’s mission to democratize automation. To test the theory, it’s serving its whole suite to the masses for free in its new community edition. Automation, artificial intelligence, analytics, ...
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Platform takes automation primetime, and Automation Anywhere says workers like it
The workplace-automation train has entered the station — now what? Do we all lose our jobs? Can we get robots to work for us while we stay home and snooze? Between those extremes, there are now real people actually using automation at work. They’re discovering its flywheel effects in productivity, creativity and efficiency. “People think ...
You’re fired: Network-driven security does it better for distributed IT
For many companies, the days of locking data behind monolithic cybersecurity walls are gone. Distributed computing systems and internet of things edge devices are sending data on risky runs around a vast network. This is why some forward-looking companies are staking out the network as the basis for modern security; rather than a wall, it’s ...
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What’s really inside Google’s new multicloud packaging?
Customers have finally succeeded in dragging cloud providers kicking and screaming into their hybrid computing reality. Most aren’t ditching their on-premises data centers just yet, and vendors have gotten the message. Google Cloud Platform has joined the party, saying all the right words about hybrid-cloud and multicloud choice and portability. But does it actually have ...
There’s an API for that: API exchange builds better apps, makes companies money
“There’s an API for that” might become the slogan of digital business over the next few years. Companies are making their application program interfaces available to others to improve existing apps or form new ones. They can even create new revenue streams for companies. AccuWeather Inc. realized it had an untapped asset in its vast, ...
Multicloud APIs make friends via refreshed Google Apigee
As more and more companies disperse their software applications across different computing environments, they’re seeking the right tools to make it all gel. Application program interfaces are often touted as a key tool to get apps talking to each other, because API management can build productive bridges between hybrid-cloud and multicloud APIs and apps. Google Cloud ...
Fortinet innovates, educates a way through modern security crisis
What does the increasingly challenging field of cybersecurity with 3.5 million unfilled jobs need? On the one hand, it needs innovators who aren’t refurbishing the same old, failing technologies. It also needs educators to continually inject new skills into professionals struggling to keep abreast of new developments. This is the leadership position to which security technology ...
