Paul Miller
Forbes
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6.5 Reasons To Pay Attention To Open RAN
The radio access network, or RAN, is a critical component of our daily lives, although most of us don’t give it much thought or even know what it is. → Read More
Energy Must Transition To Intelligent Systems To Lead The Way To The Future
Cambridge University researchers have shown the consumption of energy by Bitcoin mining will be more than the annual consumption of electricity by Argentina, a country of over 44 million people. → Read More
Manufacturing And The Intelligent Edge: What, Why, And How
They typically want to ensure that they maximize the functional life expectancy of their equipment in order to extract the maximum value, with some equipment in use for 5, 15, or even 30+ years. → Read More
Wind River BrandVoice: Crossing The Chasm For Industry 4.0
As the intelligent edge concept and its actual infrastructure take hold, it will grow and spread exponentially, making this the time to be building intelligent systems at the edge. → Read More
In Cloud Computing, It Pays To Commit
The latest figures from 451 Research suggest that cloud prices continue to fall, albeit only slightly. The biggest savings still come to companies prepared to commit to longer-term relationships with their public cloud providers. → Read More
IBM Bets $3 Billion On Internet Of Things Opportunity
IBM announces a $3 Billion investment in the emerging – and much hyped – Internet of Things. The investment sounds bold, but the company is pushing into an increasingly crowded area, where giants of both industry and technology are already scrabbling for dominance. → Read More
Amazon Simplifies Global Business With Cross-Region Data Replication
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces a new feature, Cross-Region Replication, simplifying the work of maintaining data in more than one location at the same time. This helps AWS customers that want - or need - to spread data and applications around the world. → Read More
Ensuring a Successful OpenStack Deployment
Knowing the different ways in which an OpenStack cloud can be deployed will ensure a successful and sustainable solution to local business requirements. → Read More
Embedded BI: Delivering frictionless data analytics
Data analysts have plenty of tools for business intelligence, data discovery and visualization. Self-service is almost a given, and cloud options abound. So → Read More
Data Management for Production Hadoop Data Lakes
In the new world of “data lakes,” where raw data is collected for subsequent discovery and analysis, lies the task of managed data ingestion. While data → Read More
Extending Hadoop Towards the Data Lake
Early adopters of the data lake are integrating Hadoop into current workflows and addressing challenges around the cleanliness, validity, and protection of their data. → Read More
Documenting DevOps: Agile, Automation, and Continuous Documentation
Agile development is about productivity. While traditional waterfall methodologies support long-term development projects with fixed feature sets, Agile strives → Read More
Machine Learning for business users and enterprise developers
Machine Learning has been around for well over a decade and, with the rise of “Big Data” analytics, has become especially prominent in the last few years. Many companies are now considering how best to use Machine Learning for predictive and prescriptive analytics and, ultimately, for maximizing […] → Read More
Maximizing value and minimizing risk with a managed approach to hybrid cloud
For most organizations today, the cloud is one part of a mixed IT environment. The exact mix may vary, but modern organizations often make some use of public cloud infrastructure and applications, and some use of private cloud infrastructure running inside their own data centers. There […] → Read More
Beyond the Unified Communications Hype: Business Benefits for the Enterprise
As the enterprise grows more distributed, varied and mobile, flexible communication is more necessary than ever – but it is also more complex. With a nearly limitless combination of geographies, devices, and compliance requirements, IT departments cannot rely on yesterday’s communications standards and applications. Corporate IT […] → Read More
Apache Hadoop: Is one cluster enough?
Projects like Apache YARN expand the types of workloads for which Hadoop is a viable and compelling solution, leading practitioners to think more creatively managing data. → Read More
Bringing Hadoop to the mainframe — Gigaom Research
Mainframes still account for 60 percent or more of global enterprise transactions. → Read More
Big data managed services: When and how to outsource — Gigaom Research
Big data support is becoming big business. Companies large and small are kicking the tires on big data projects and quickly realizing that scaling Hadoop clusters, NoSQL databases, and other big data technologies is hard to do. Much like the evolution of data center hosting, which […] → Read More
No time like the present: the case for streaming analytics — Gigaom Research
Capturing information from cars, planes, wind turbines, social media, business and IT systems, and any other kind of data source in a cost-effective manner was made possible with Hadoop. This was a huge break through, but it turns out that performing analysis on the data stored […] → Read More
What if IT operations and development teams worked together in the cloud?
Most IT departments are divided into two organizations: operations – the guys that keep the infrastructure lights on – and development, the programmers writing applications. With the advent of cloud computing, programmers and their cohorts on the business side sidestepped the IT ops team, buying infrastructure […] → Read More