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At Identiverse, exploring the challenges of building an identity control plane for the multicloud
Identity is the key to control. Only if you can manage identities — along with associated credentials, permissions and attributes — can you effectively control any computing environment. Identity management is the silent thread that enables management of hybrid, mesh and other multicloud environments. At Identiverse 2019 this week in Washington, D.C., the identity management ...
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MongoDB grows its solution portfolio while boosting its flagship platform
MongoDB has built a substantial business on the back of its open-source, NoSQL document database. This week at its annual developer conference in New York, it showed that it maintains a healthy pipeline of fresh opportunities and is doing everything it can to deliver innovations to its worldwide enterprise user base. In the big-data industry, ...
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At AWS Public Sector Summit, Amazon braces for a changing cloud industry
Public clouds are coming into the core technology infrastructures of government agencies everywhere. By the same token, governments around the world are intensifying their scrutiny of public cloud providers and other large providers of internet-based business and consumer services. At its latest public sector summit this week in Washington D.C., Amazon Web Services Inc. clearly ...
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How to provide single-pane visibility across the business multicloud
You can’t manage anything effectively without a clear line of sight to all its moving parts. That’s why, as multiclouds grow more complex, you absolutely need a strong visibility layer to monitor and control it all. Should you implement the proverbial “single pane of glass” for viewing your multicloud? How you address this imperative depends ...
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At PegaWorld, Pega provides citizen developers with compliance guardrails
Everybody is a potential enterprise application developer, given the right tooling abetted by a workbench that enforces development best practices. Though the term “citizen developer” implies someone lacking in professional discipline, that’s not necessarily the case in practice. Many knowledge workers are skilled professionals who will apply by-the-book enterprise development practices if they’re given sufficient ...
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Managing the multicloud will require lots of AI – but people too
Business will increasingly run in multiple clouds, which means that managing this critical resource will become the core function of many information technology professionals. Automating the majority of multicloud management workloads will become a key initiative for IT departments that wish to cut costs, improve service levels and ensure strong governance. As noted in this ...
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At Informatica World, AI automates delivery of smart recommendations for hybrid-cloud data operations
Artificial intelligence used to be the secret sauce that every company ladled over its solution strategy. But AI’s now the opposite of secret, because it sits front and center in every solution provider’s go-to-market message. At Informatica World 2019 this week in Las Vegas, we all came expecting the sponsoring company to deepen its AI ...
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At Red Hat Summit, automation of hybrid cloud management steps to the forefront
Hybrid-cloud computing has been a dominant focus of recent enterprise information technology industry events. Already this year, Wikibon has seen significant hybrid-cloud solution announcements from Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp. and Google LLC. This week at its annual developer event in Boston, Red Hat Inc. took its already-strong hybrid-cloud portfolio to the next level of automated sophistication. In ...
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Microsoft pushes the intelligent edge forward at Build
Microsoft Corp. continues to rack up impressive momentum in the cloud arena, a trend that it shifted into high gear Monday at its annual Build developer conference. The tech giant launched a wide range of innovations in platforms, tools, cloud services and other offerings that should help its Azure public cloud continue setting the pace ...
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At Dell Tech World, data protection provides strategic leverage in the hybrid-cloud wars
Data is a precious business asset. In the emerging hybrid-cloud market, any solution provider that doesn’t enable strong end-to-end data protection is a nonstarter. As Wikibon reviews the recent spate of industry announcements in hybrid cloud, we keep returning to data protection as table stakes. If a provider has failed to address it with robust solutions ...