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Plenty of gas: Innovations continue apace at the first post-pandemic KubeCon
The first post-Covid KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam this week did not disappoint, as a sold-out crowd of more than 10,000 professionals turned up in person to learn about all things Kubernetes. The signs of maturity of this massive open-source ecosystem were everywhere. Some 58% of attendees were first-timers, illustrating the explosive interest in Kubernetes among ...
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API security playbook: What you need to do to protect your APIs
Application programming interfaces are modern application architecture solutions that enable digital business by improving connectivity and enabling composable architectures. They are used to support modern user experiences across web, mobile and other channels. They also support internal processes, customer and partner integration and automation. Growth of API deployments has exploded over the past decade, but ...
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Chief data and analytics officers must lead upskilling initiatives in data science and machine learning
As data scientist hiring continues to boom, many organizations report sustained difficulty finding, attracting and retaining data science talent. Even as initiatives to upskill quantitative professionals grow, machine learning literacy remains low in many organizations. Chief data and analytics officers, or CDAOs, must build development paths that support budding citizen data scientists with the right ...
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Databricks faces critical strategic decisions. Here’s why.
When Apache Spark became a top-level project in 2014, and shortly thereafter burst onto the big data scene, it along with the public cloud disrupted the big data market. Databricks Inc. cleverly optimized its tech stack for Spark and took advantage of the cloud to deliver a managed service that has become a leading artificial intelligence ...
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Analysis: SAP starts weaving its own data fabric
Almost any business, large or small, that uses technology typically has a strategic supplier that is, in effect, first among equals. It becomes the platform that drives choices for third-party applications, tools or databases. In small businesses, that strategic platform supplier is likely to be Microsoft Corp. or Apple Inc., with the choice of Google ...
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Four key revenue growth opportunities from enterprise 5G
Competitive market dynamics are driving communication service providers or CSPs to build out 5G public cellular networks amidst a great deal of uncertainty on what incremental revenues that investment will drive for them. Although 5G has been the first cellular standard designed with business needs in mind from the start, its industry-specific use cases are ...
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The evolving role of the data engineer
It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and the old days look anything but simple. Still, when it came to engineering roles, there was a fairly rudimentary breakdown: ...
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The big game is big business – for threat actors too
The numbers surrounding the National Football League’s Super Bowl LVII Sunday in Arizona are staggering. More than $150 million in bets will be placed, the host city will see upwards of $400 million in direct and indirect revenue surrounding the event day, 100 million pounds of chicken wings will be consumed and, of course, the ...
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Generative AI drives an explosion in compute: The looming need for sustainable AI
After years of preparation, 2022 highlighted the amazing potential for generative AI as models such as OpenAI LLC’s DALL-E and GPT-3 swept across the world. Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC have been training machine learning models for years, but the introduction of transformer-based large language models or LLMs that could “learn” created a ...
OneSignal extends Series C funding round with strategic investment from ServiceNow
Customer engagement platform OneSignal Inc. said today it has closed on a new strategic investment from ServiceNow Ventures. The funding, whose amount was not revealed, extends its recently announced $50 million Series C round of funding. OneSignal is the creator of a customer engagement platform that enables mobile, web, email, SMS and in-app message push ...