Kubernetes Tools Provide a Java Upgrade
Microservices have evolved to the point where cloud-native development tools are now being referred to as Kubernetes-native—as in the de facto standard application container orchestrator. The reach of Kubernetes ...Full Article
Microsoft, Nokia Partner on Factory Floor
The framework for the next industrial phase dubbed Industry 4.0 is taking shape as cloud and networking vendors join forces to accelerate automation on the factory floor. The latest ...Full Article
Conversational AI at Constant Contact Call Centers: ‘Not a Science Experiment’
If misery in modern life happens to be your field of interest, go visit a call center. In the cubicles, row on row, we observe underpaid, tedium-addled customer service ...Full Article
5G, IoT Spur the Edge Datacenter Market
The proliferation of connected devices and Internet of Things sensors is boosting a transformed datacenter market in which service providers are shifting operations closer to the network edge. That ...Full Article
Qumulo-HPE Launch Updated Enterprise File Storage Solutions
High performance storage vendor Qumulo today launched an updated line of distributed file storage solutions integrated with HPE’s high-end Apollo 4200 Gen 10 Servers. Qumulo, whose partnership with HPE ...Full Article
Jaeger Emerges as Meister of Cloud Monitoring
An open-source tool used to monitor and troubleshoot cloud-native services has joined the ranks of maturing platforms such as Kubernetes as microservices scale. Jaeger, a distributed tracing platform used ...Full Article
Azure Overtakes AWS for $10B Pentagon JEDI Cloud Contract
In a showdown between hyperscale giants, Microsoft was awarded the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract over co-finalist Amazon. Earlier this year, most observers of the closely watched ...Full Article
Spending Spree: Hyperscalers Bought $57B of IT in 2018, $10B+ by Google – But Is Cloud on Horizon?
Hyperscalers are the masters of the IT universe, gravitational centers of increasing pull in the emerging age of data-driven compute and AI. In the high-stakes, winner-take-all world of the ...Full Article
IBM Watson Targets AI’s Data Snags
IBM continues to ramp up its Watson AI offerings as adoption of automation technology remains limited, in part due to what company executives say is a lack of data ...Full Article
Oracle’s Mark Hurd Dies at 62
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd, who was at that company for nearly 10 years and who played a lead in Oracle’s move into public cloud computing, has died at age ...Full Article
