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Ocean’s roar of generative AI and expanding dark web capture security world’s attention at RSA

Mark Albertson — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:45:39 +0000

The cybersecurity world has many problems to confront, but the most pressing one at the moment is speed. The introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT language-based artificial intelligence engine has become a central focus for businesses and society at large as the adoption curve continues to expand at a dramatic pace. It took Instagram two and half […]

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An open standard threatens to disrupt the cloistered world of wireless networking

Paul Gillin — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:01:34 +0000

Suppose you’re a major supplier of fertilizer to the agriculture market and you have ambitions of digitally transforming your business. Your idea is to place thousands of sensors in 10-foot-by-10-foot blocks across the fields your customers farm. The sensors will continually report on soil and atmospheric conditions, enabling customers to adjust their fertilizer allocations to […]

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How 5G will help blaze the trail to the long-awaited metaverse

Kyt Dotson — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 20:57:54 +0000

The metaverse has become a major buzzword as people begin to flock to these immersive digital worlds in virtual and augmented reality, promising to transform how people work, socialize and entertain themselves. But there’s a key obstacle in the way of that vision: Metaverse applications tend to be resource-intensive because they need to send, receive […]

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How ChatGPT will – and won’t – change the face of business

Paul Gillin — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:18:35 +0000

ChatGPT has been hailed as everything from the future of search to the end of term papers, but it’s far from a sentient being. While OpenAI LLC’s chatbot is a wonder at explaining the infield fly rule in Shakespearean English, detractors have noted that its answers can be overly simplistic, confusing or just plain wrong. […]

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Moving to the supercloud means rethinking data management

Paul Gillin — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:00:28 +0000

In becoming the largest privately held freight transportation company in North America, Estes Express Lines Inc. created a lot of data silos. Following years of acquisitions, diversification and geographic expansion, by 2021 the data fragmentation picture across the company was “pretty bad,” said Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, business intelligence and analytics. Core […]

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How the industrial metaverse will transform manufacturing

Kyt Dotson — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:00:23 +0000

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. is one of the world’s largest makers of welding equipment, with more than 42 manufacturing locations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America — and its business depends on making sure enough welders are certified to use its equipment. For that reason, it felt it needed a […]

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Cloud marketplaces transform how business software is bought and sold

Paul Gillin — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:40:30 +0000

Palo Alto Networks Inc. has seen the future and it is in marketplaces. Although it won’t provide a lot of details, the cybersecurity giant, with nearly $7 billion in annual revenue, believes that the marketplaces operated by the big hyperscale cloud platform providers will be its biggest source of revenue growth going forward. “It’s not […]

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How AI has made hardware interesting again

Paul Gillin — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:57:09 +0000

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has long been one of the world’s largest consumers of supercomputing capacity. With computing power of more than 200 petaflops, or 200 billion floating-point operations per second, the U.S. Department of Energy-operated institution runs supercomputers from every major U.S. manufacturer. For the past two years, that lineup has included two newcomers: […]

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‘Stupid pill’: Fees for moving data around the cloud persist despite rising customer ire

Paul Gillin — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:15:21 +0000

When it comes to the fees the big cloud platform providers charge for customers to retrieve their data, Vince Kellen is pretty blunt. “It’s a stupid pill,” he said. “I believe they do this because they believe it will keep me from leaving them. I call that ‘value subtract competition.’” Kellen, who is the chief […]

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Walmart blazes trails with its enterprise ‘supercloud’

Paul Gillin — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:29:54 +0000

When Walmart Inc. commits to something, it tends to think big. Building a supercloud is no exception. For the past two years the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant has been putting in place an abstraction layer that masks the distinctions between its preferred public cloud providers, internal hybrid cloud and edge computing nodes in 10,000 locations […]

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The Ethereum ‘Merge’ is coming and it’s about to change everything in crypto

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:05:27 +0000

The Ethereum blockchain that underlies the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is about to go through a historic software upgrade that will change it forever. The upgrade, known as “the Merge,” has been in the works for more than two years after being delayed multiple times. It will reduce the network’s power consumption by more […]

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Inside the rush to build ‘superclouds’

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:51:07 +0000

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. is in the midst of a massive cloud migration that will affect more than 40,000 systems and applications across the globe running on everything from Windows servers to mainframes. The company has already moved 68% of its workloads to the public cloud and aims to slim down from three data centers […]

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What recession? Tech spending stays robust as digital transformation plans forge ahead

Paul Gillin — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 20:52:04 +0000

In announcing second-quarter earnings on July 18, IBM Corp. Chief Executive Arvind Krishna commented that his business is not only not showing any signs of suffering from recessionary pressures but may actually be benefiting from them. “We see technology as deflationary,” he said. “It acts as a counterbalance to all of the inflation and labor […]

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Conquering ‘shadow IT’: How enterprises are trying to tame the cloud software beast

Paul Gillin — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:49:13 +0000

Like many companies, high-performance sporting equipment maker Catapult Sports Pty Ltd. used to give its employees wide latitude to choose their own software-as-a-service applications. But as its information technology department prepared a campaign to achieve compliance with a key security standard, its lack of visibility into the services employees was using became a liability. “There […]

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CIOs welcome users’ bid for more IT budget control – mostly

Paul Gillin — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:23:24 +0000

When Richard Wiedenbeck became chief information officer of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. 12 years ago, he encountered a siloed business structure in which each business unit fulfilled its own information technology needs. “IT was treated as back-office order-taking operation to an unhealthy level,” he said. “Businesspeople were making software application and design decisions who had […]

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‘Which video games do you play?’ How firms are finding and keeping scarce tech talent

Paul Gillin — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:46:47 +0000

Between the Great Resignation and the chronic shortage of information technology talent, organizations have never had a harder time finding and keeping qualified people. Although the task is easier for hot startups swimming in venture capital, hiring managers in more prosaic fields have told nightmare stories of losing prospects while offer letters are being prepared […]

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Cloud giants conquered the data center. Now they aim to transform every industry

Paul Gillin — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:32:08 +0000

Truist Financial Corp. is on a mission to change the way banking is done, and it’s looking to cloud platform providers to help it along. The firm, which was created when BB&T Corp. acquired SunTrust Banks Inc. in late 2019, is banking on a patent-pending cloud technology it created that gives customers of both of […]

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Why your cloud computing costs are so high – and what you can do about them

Paul Gillin — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 15:21:03 +0000

Small mistakes in the cloud can have big consequences. John Purcell, chief product officer at custom developer DoiT International Ltd., tells of one customer who made a keystroke error that caused the company to spin up an Amazon Web Services Inc. instance much larger than what was needed. A job that was supposed to finish […]

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After fits and starts, Google’s cloud strategy is finally finding its footing

Paul Gillin — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:00:26 +0000

Avis Budget Car Rental LLC popularized the phrase, “We’re number two. We try harder.” But what do you do when you’re number four? That’s the challenge facing Google LLC in its drive to overcome a late start, a once questionable commitment and two dominant competitors in the market for public cloud services. With a market […]

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As a skills crisis mounts, tech leaders pivot: ‘It’s crazy the hiring spree they’re on’

Paul Gillin — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:46:46 +0000

For data scientists, Java developers and cloud computing experts, these are the best of times. For the companies looking to hire them? Not so much. The skills shortage that has been a constant background thrum in information technology industries for decades is now reaching crisis levels, fueled by the digital transformation craze and declining college […]

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Data warehousing has problems. A data mesh could be the solution

Paul Gillin — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 23:16:46 +0000

Since its founding 13 years ago as an online shoe seller, Zalando SE has grown to become one of the largest e-commerce fashion retailers in Europe. Given its roots on the web, it’s not surprising that about 15% of the firm’s 14,000 employees work in technology disciplines. Zalando “has been a data-driven company pretty much […]

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JEDI contract cancellation could give DOD cloud strategy a needed reboot

Paul Gillin — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:21:19 +0000

In scrapping its $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Defense surprised no one except perhaps Microsoft Corp., which appeared to have stolen the deal from front-running Amazon Web Services Inc. nearly two years ago. With its reliance on a single cloud provider and a decade-long horizon in a […]

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Cloud costs ignite fresh debate in tech community over where to run the enterprise

Mark Albertson — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:21:34 +0000

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously declared that software would eat the world. Last month, two members of his investment firm Andreessen Horowitz made the case that cloud has been eating the enterprise’s money. In a post titled “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox,” Martin Casado and Sarah Wang detailed an analysis of enterprise cloud […]

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What’s driving the never-ending cloud startup boom

Paul Gillin — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:32:24 +0000

Cockroach Labs Inc. launched an enterprise version of the open-source CockroachDB distributed database six years ago at a time when “all companies wanted to run the database themselves,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Spencer Kimball. The business was steady, but like many firms trying to commercialize open-source software, the company had to cope with pricing […]

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The cybersecurity industry is guarding against all the wrong threats

Mark Albertson — Fri, 28 May 2021 14:47:06 +0000

In the aftermath of two headline-grabbing attacks over the past six months, more high-profile security researchers and analysts are beginning to cast a wary eye at internal systems and technology tools. The SolarWinds breach, a compromise of third-party software used to protect networks in the U.S. government and four-fifths of Fortune 500 companies, was discovered […]

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COVID’s silver lining: The race to cloud-based cybersecurity quickens

Paul Gillin — Mon, 17 May 2021 02:36:46 +0000

When security integrator Optiv Security Inc. went into lockdowns more than a year ago, Chief Information Officer Sujan Turlapaty immediately realized what he was up against. “We went from managing 20 to 30 branch offices to 2,500 remote offices,” he said. “The attack surface was much bigger.” That has prompted the firm to overhaul its cybersecurity […]

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Amid the NFT craze, a builders’ culture emerges on the blockchain

Mark Albertson — Mon, 10 May 2021 21:27:03 +0000

When a single work of digital art, which will never hang on a physical wall, sells for $69 million at a Christie’s auction in March, or a picture of a routine column from a tech writer for the New York Times, which could be read online for free, is bought for an astounding $560,000, some perspective […]

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In autistic people, tech firms find long-overlooked talent trove

Paul Gillin — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:10:58 +0000

Nicole Radziwill graduated from Pennsylvania State University at the age of 18 and went on to earn an MBA and a Ph.D. in technology management and quality systems. She taught data science at the university level for 11 years, did a stint as editor-in-chief of the academic journal Software Quality Professional and has been a […]

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Out on the edge: The new cloud battleground isn’t in the cloud at all

Paul Gillin — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 03:26:42 +0000

In the process of building a global e-commerce empire that can deliver goods overnight to much of the developed world, Amazon.com Inc. has developed expertise in distributed computing, robotics and factory automation. Google LLC’s quest to deliver subsecond responses to search queries has driven it to build a presence on more than 90 of the world’s […]

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Cloud computing storms a bastion of the enterprise: the data warehouse

Paul Gillin — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:45:04 +0000

In the course of managing 12 million requests for roadside an accident assistance across the U.S. each year, Agero Inc. crunches a lot of data. The contact center operation, including dispatch specialists, employs a team of data scientists to optimize the way service providers are deployed to deliver aid as quickly as possible to stranded […]

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