Overstock.com Sparks Customer Insights from Decades of Data – ‘Fast Is Never Fast Enough’
We often hear that online retail is among the business sectors furthest along on its digital transformation and AI journeys. Overstock.com , the giant (2017 revenues: $1.75 billion) internet ...Full Article
Google, VMware Partner on Hybrid Cloud Tools
Google and VMware are collaborating on a new cloud plug-in connecting a pair of VMware tools designed to enable provisioning of virtual machines and storage on the search giant’s ...Full Article
Data Security In the News: The Weight of GDPR, Widespread Retail Breaches, Cloud Worries, More Venture Investment
News on the data security front has intensified of late, including new survey results indicating prevalent security breaches in the vulnerable retail industry, escalating cloud-based security fears, significant contract ...Full Article
Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars
Google continues to extend the reach of its cloud platform with a new feature that allows cloud customers to deploy commercial and open source applications ranging from databases and ...Full Article
Licensing Reform Movement Gathers Steam
An effort to promote balanced licensing rules for open source software is gaining momentum with the addition of 14 new companies adopting guidelines designed primarily to reduce compliance errors. ...Full Article
Microservices Get Agile With Integration Platform
As enterprises shift from the “waterfall” software development model to agile microservices architectures, integrators are offering new frameworks for easing the transition. Among them is WSO2, the open source ...Full Article
AIOps: Power Tool for Managing Systems Beyond Human Comprehension
You’re an accomplished IT manager at a financial services, retail or other data-intensive organization, and you preside over an insanely complex IT infrastructure that handles millions of roboticized transactions ...Full Article
IBM Launches All-Flash, Multi-Cloud Storage
IBM today announced a new all flash-based entry to its storage products portfolio, a fusion of high performance storage technologies that the company said combines low latency IBM FlashCore ...Full Article
Hitting at the Hidden (and Not So Hidden) Costs of CAE
Today’s engineers use Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software to solve a range of engineering problems associated with the mass production of products. Yet, many know first-hand that single licenses ...Full Article
Baidu, Intel Expand Collaboration on AI
Intel Corp. is teaming with Chinese e-commerce giant Baidu on a batch of AI projects spanning FPGA-backed workload acceleration, a deep learning framework based on Xeon scalable processors and ...Full Article