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At Tableau Conference, AI drives the business intelligence experience but Salesforce integration remains AWOL

James Kobielus — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:32:01 +0000

Business intelligence has evolved far from its traditional focus on historical analytics and batch operational reporting. The latest generation of BI products are focused on self-service predictive capabilities to enable business users to do many things that once required either a BI specialist or a highly skilled data scientist. In addition, most BI solutions now […]

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At Ignite, Microsoft convincingly addresses the multicloud imperative

James Kobielus — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 23:30:47 +0000

Microsoft Corp. has fresh momentum in the cloud wars. For starters, Microsoft was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI contract. For another, the company has just announced a broad range of enhancements to its Azure cloud portfolio that will almost certainly help to win it new business in […]

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At Evolve, ASG debuts low-code tooling for digital process automation

James Kobielus — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:24:59 +0000

“Low code” is a catch-all for every visual, model-driven development tool now on the market. As a result, the phrase has outlived its usefulness as a market segmentation label. Doing ‘low code’ agile process automation When a company touts its development tool with this phrase — or the equivalent “no code” — it’s usually unclear […]

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As Hadoop wanes, Cloudera aims to accelerate multicloud data science pipelines

James Kobielus — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 00:10:25 +0000

Big-data pioneer Cloudera Inc. has made a successful transition to the post-Hadoop era. As was evident in its announcements today, the company has evolved its solution portfolio and customer adoption well beyond that open-source big-data platform — which, though still very much a key platform component, was barely mentioned at its annual analyst summit this week in New […]

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At OpenWorld, Oracle struggles to move the cloud needle its way

James Kobielus — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:41:32 +0000

The cloud wars continue to intensify, and Oracle Corp. is definitely not retrenching. As illustrated by its primary announcements this week at its OpenWorld 2019 conference in San Francisco, the company has doubled down on the same strategies that drove the chief announcements at last year’s event. That may not be enough to pick up Oracle’s fortunes […]

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Surprise: Next-generation virtual machines will help power multicloud computing

James Kobielus — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 23:29:02 +0000

Hypervisor technology has been one of the building blocks of cloud computing from the start. In recent years, though, this method of “virtualization” to separate a computer’s operating system and applications from the underlying hardware has begun to feel more like a legacy approach than a platform for developing tomorrow’s sophisticated cloud applications — containerized, serverless and […]

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At VMworld, VMware bets big on convergence of virtual machines and containers

James Kobielus — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:17:49 +0000

VMware Inc. made a wide range of announcements this week that advance its competitive positioning in multicloud computing. One of those announcements stands out as a classic “bet the business” gambit: the “Project Pacific” core of the company’s forthcoming Tanzu Portfolio. Launched in the Day One keynote at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco, “Project Pacific” will […]

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Company profile: H20.ai sprinkles in new risk mitigation features

James Kobielus — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 23:50:31 +0000

Artificial intelligence has become the intelligent nerve center of most cloud applications. However, AI has also become a major risk factor in many modern enterprises. AI’s risks may stem from design limitations in a specific buildout of the technology, such as when a machine learning model incorporates a biased feature set. Other risks may be due to inadequate lifecycle […]

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VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy will be a key focus at upcoming VMworld

James Kobielus — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 19:14:56 +0000

Public cloud rivalries have spawned a surprising early favorite, and it’s none of the usual suspects — Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp.’s Azure or Google LLC’s Cloud Platform — nor is it a hot startup. Rather, VMware Inc., the 20-year-old virtualization pioneer, has become the go-to partner in the hybrid-cloud market. In the race […]

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Hybrid cloud computing hits an inflection point

James Kobielus — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:41:34 +0000

The promise of a true private cloud is that it should not matter where you place your most demanding workloads. True private clouds are those in which performance is consistently fast and efficient, regardless of whether an enterprise’s workloads run on-premised or in public clouds. Whether you move those workloads into one or more public […]

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At Identiverse, exploring the challenges of building an identity control plane for the multicloud

James Kobielus — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:25:07 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:01:40 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:45:21 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:50:15 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 17:33:29 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Fri, 31 May 2019 22:35:37 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Wed, 22 May 2019 19:14:54 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Thu, 09 May 2019 16:50:45 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Tue, 07 May 2019 00:49:05 +0000

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

James Kobielus — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:43:18 +0000

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 […]

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What are developers looking for in multicloud programming? Simplicity.

James Kobielus — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:13:08 +0000

Applications live everywhere in the multicloud but nowhere in particular. For developers, this means they need tools and frameworks that help them spread data and business logic across many public, private, edge and other environments. More than that, they need abstractions that can help them nimbly build and maintain the virtual machines, containers, serverless functions […]

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How multicloud cost models are shifting – and what to do about it

James Kobielus — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 21:48:11 +0000

Multicloud is an emerging approach for deploying enterprise computing assets. But optimizing the costs of a full multicloud deployment can prove tricky, because there may no unified management plane for deploying, monitoring and governing all distributed information technology assets. Multicloud cost models are shifting because best practices for deploying these distributed environments are in flux. […]

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Regional nursing home operator assures quality care with data analytics

James Kobielus — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:12:49 +0000

This is a sponsored post commissioned by Hitachi Vantara Corp. Aging populations need care around the clock. Indeed, the clock is a primary tool for determining what constitutes a baseline level of care for each resident in an institutional caregiving setting. For nursing homes such as those run by StoneGate Senior Living LLC, one key […]

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In the multicloud era, is hardware an asset or a liability for tech providers?

James Kobielus — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 22:35:06 +0000

Edge computing is driving hardware to the center of the cloud revolution. Devices are central to today’s cloud-to-edge paradigm. They are the hardware platforms into which AI software is being embedded, infusing data-driven intelligence into practically anything and everything. Is hardware a dirty word? Hardware is definitely hip again. Strong hardware engineering and design expertise […]

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Wrapping up Next, Google pushes multiclouds to top of customers’ IT strategies

James Kobielus — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 05:23:39 +0000

Google LLC made an impressive showing at its annual Cloud Next conference this week in San Francisco. In the arena for hybrid and multicloud computing, it differentiated its value proposition in several respects: Strong multicloud offering: Google’s general-availability release of Anthos signaled its deep commitment to helping its customers blend on-premises IT assets with the hyperscalable […]

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Cloud Next day two wrap: Google makes a strong developer push

James Kobielus — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 04:36:46 +0000

Google LLC made even more product announcements on day two of its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco than on the opening day of the event — this time aimed chiefly at software developers. Google is very clearly reaching out to the core enterprise customers that have flocked in greater numbers to its principal public-cloud […]

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Day one wrap at Next: Multicloud stars as Google Cloud opens up its strategy

James Kobielus — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 23:59:11 +0000

Google had been inching into the hybrid cloud market over the past year. As it did so, it scarcely made an attempt to enter the growing multicloud arena. But what a difference a day makes! In the day one keynote today at Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, new Chief Executive Thomas Kurian made several announcements that […]

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The challenge of ensuring effective security across the multicloud

James Kobielus — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:53:50 +0000

The best security is by design. But that raises a problem when securing a multicloud. Multiclouds rarely originate from a conscious design. More often than not, they are an attempt to bring architectural coherence to disparate systems, networks and applications that were deployed independently and interconnected haphazardly. Securing a multicloud requires that information technology professionals […]

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At Flink Forward, Ververica evolves Apache Flink into a unified data platform

James Kobielus — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 04:56:53 +0000

Stream computing is a key platform for a growing range of data-rich, low-latency applications. More online apps — such as mobility, the “internet of things,” media, gaming and serverless — require a robust, low-latency data processing backbone. Core features of many streaming apps now include real-time event processing, continuous computation, stateful semantics, publish-and-subscribe messaging, changed […]

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On the verge of Next ’19, Google must double down on cloud applications

James Kobielus — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:24:21 +0000

Google is deep into the application development ecosystem, if for no other reason than that it created many open-source components that have since become ubiquitous. Google’s DNA is all over modern applications. It would be difficult to find modern web apps that aren’t written for the Chrome browser, mobile apps that don’t work with the […]

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