Why use Puppet for automation and orchestration Puppet the company bills Puppet the automation tool as the de facto standard for automating the delivery and ongoing operation of hybrid infrastructure. That was certainly true at one time: Puppet not only goes back to 2005, but also currently claims 40,000 organizations worldwide as users, including 75 […]
Making Kubernetes work for the average engineer—via PaaS Too consumed with your OpenStack deployment to put a Kubernetes cluster on the blockchain? Not to worry: Most people are still trying to figure out Kubernetes. Despite being the hottest thing since, well, Docker, Kubernetes remains a dark art for most mainstream enterprises. Birthed by the engineering […]
Cloud-based AI: The game-changer not to fret about The White House is hosting a conference on the future of artificial intelligence. Executives from 38 companies, including Intel, Oracle, Ford, Boeing, Mastercard, Microsoft, and Accenture, will attend the daylong summit. Why is it happening now? AI is poised to create 2.3 million jobs by 2020, while […]
IDG Contributor Network: Tales of eTail West, big data, and e-commerce success—or failure I attend the eTail West event, annually if I am able, because that’s where the enablers hang out. The worlds of retail, fashion, and e-commerce offer plenty of glitz and glamor. If what you are looking for, however, are serious discussions and […]
Azure cloud services guide: The right tools for the job Microsoft launched the Azure service just over eight years ago in a bid to play catchup with Amazon Web Services. And it has succeeded. Azure is now the No. 2 cloud service, behind AWS. Just how far behind varies from one analyst firm to another, […]
IDG Contributor Network: 6 key data strategy considerations for your cloud-native transformation Many organizations are making the move to cloud-native platforms as their strategy for digital transformation. cloud-native allows companies to deliver fast-responding, user-friendly applications with greater agility. However, the architecture of the data in support of cloud-native transformation is often ignored in the hope […]
How to deal with bad data in your cloud migration Do you have dysfunctional enterprise data? The symptoms are pretty easy to spot, including not having a single source of truth for customers, orders, inventory, etc. Or not be able to properly secure and govern the data, thus being unable to deal with regulations. Many […]
IDG Contributor Network: Big data + AI: Context, trust, and other key secrets to success When Target deduced that a teenager from Minnesota was pregnant—and told her father about it before she’d broken the news herself—it was a reminder of just how powerful data analytics can be, and how companies must wield that power carefully. […]
Review: Amazon SageMaker scales deep learning Amazon SageMaker, a machine learning development and deployment service introduced at re:Invent 2017, cleverly sidesteps the eternal debate about the “best” machine learning and deep learning frameworks by supporting all of them at some level. While AWS has publicly supported Apache MXNet, its business is selling you cloud services, […]
What your provider won’t tell you about cloud security Everyone loves insider tips. In the case of cloud computing, the tips that matter are mostly about cloud security approaches and technology. Here are three cloud security tips that your cloud provider won’t want to tell you. But I will. Tip 1: Cloud security should be […]
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