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Can containers as-a-service fast-forward app design in the enterprise?
Companies that can’t afford to hire yet another developer might use new technology to get more mileage from the ones they have (and even some of their regular business folk). They can accomplish this with containers as-a-services and new visual app-building tools, according to Siddhartha Agarwal (pictured), vice president of product management and strategy at Oracle Corp. ...
Can AI-powered chatbots cure app fatigue?
Cloud and container technologies promise to usher in a Golden Age of application development. The hurdle for app makers is getting consumers with terminal app fatigue to download yet another one. “Frankly, there’s just too many apps,” said Sri Ramanathan (pictured), group vice president of mobile cloud at Oracle Corp. He explained that PC and mobile users are ...
How can you see the network through the microservice jumble?
Microservices are giving enterprises more options than the old all-in-one proprietary vendors ever did. This can only be a boon, right? Well, yes and no, according to two guests on a recent segment with theCUBE. “It means that we’re giving them so much rope to hang themselves,” aid Nick McKeown (pictured, center), chief scientist, chairman and co-founder at ...
Connected to converged: Can fog computing cure industrial IoT’s pain points?
The Internet of Things may solve some problems in industrial IT and operational technology, but some say the barrage of sensors, connected devices and associated data merely adds more pieces to an already crowded and fragmented environment. Can a cloud-like “fog” layer make all those miscellaneous, flaky parts gel? Flavio Bonomi, founder and chief executive officer of ...
Infrastructure and devices blend for ‘internet of people, places and things’
Software is increasingly defining information technology infrastructure; some believe it’s a two-way street and that new Internet of Things infrastructure can inform the applications that developers create. “It’s all about, to me, the internet of people, places and things in terms of how these things come together,” said Susie Wee (pictured), vice president and chief technical officer of ...
Dynamic duo: Can AI and humans revolutionize thought labor together?
In a presentation at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, Bhushan Desam, senior business development manager of HPC and AI, Data Center Group, at Lenovo Group Ltd., asked: What is intelligence? Addressing Artificial Intelligence and human job loss, he gave two scenarios: A man crossing the street is about to be hit by a van — he ...
AI can do that too? Retail therapy for closet overload
Michelle Bacharach had a problem. She would buy an article of clothing and then realize it didn’t go with anything else in her closet. Then she found a way for artificial intelligence to do in seconds what her human brain could not. The co-founder and chief executive officer of FINDMINE Inc. believes the company’s retail ...
Is Facebook’s Messenger bot the best social strategy for corporate AI?
Businesses, entrepreneurs and public figures tired of trailing targets on the endless circuit of social apps might find some respite in chatbots. “If I told you there was a social app that had a billion users every month, bigger than Snapchat plus Twitter plus Instagram combined, you’d want to figure out a strategy for how ...
Will AI make daily commutes the best part of your workday?
Ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft have made the daily commute a less frustrating part of the day for many. Now a crowd-sourced fleet of 14-passenger vehicles acquired by Ford Motor Company is promising more. “What Chariot and Ford is looking forward to doing in the next couple of years is to actually make [your ...
A Jetsons world: how artificial intelligence will revolutionize work and play
As artificial intelligence tools become smarter and easier to use, the threat that they may take human jobs is real. They might also just make people much better at what they do, revolutionizing the workday for many. “What a bulldozer was to physical labor, AI is to data and to thought labor,” said Naveen Rao (pictured), vice ...
