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Yes, Real-Time Streaming Data Is Still Growing

A funny thing happened while the tech world was focused almost exclusively on ChatGPT over the past eight months: Adoption of other cutting-edge technologies kept growing. One of those is real-time stream data processing Read more…

Wired vs. Unwired and the Coming Massive Changes in IoT Provisioning

There are two battling initiatives about to emerge in the IoT market. On the enterprise side, we have a largely Cisco-led initiative that attempts to take power over ethernet (PoE) and make it universal. On the other sid Read more…

Big Data Boom from 5G, IoT Has WANdisco Dancing

When interest in Hadoop was building years ago, WANDisco prepared itself for an expected surge of business with its big data movement technology. However, that business never fully materialized, and when the Hadoop bubbl Read more…

Airbus is Teaching Planes to Land Themselves

Most people are familiar with autopilot, the system that controls an airplane’s speed, altitude, and heading under the watch of trained pilots. For the most part, pilots are still in charge of takeoffs and landings, bu Read more…

How to Address Scale and Performance Needs in IoT

During the summer, electricity grid disruptions and outages can occur more frequently. It’s a frightening thought: 12 nursing home residents died in Florida in stifling heat after Hurricane Irma knocked out their facil Read more…

Swim Maintains a Steady State Amid Fast-Moving Data

Things move quickly in the world of real-time streaming. In some cases, companies want to track millions of events per second. Staying on top of these data volumes can be extremely challenging for traditional stateless c Read more…

Define and Tackle Your Edge

An ambulance speeds down the highway to take a critically ill patient to the hospital. Employees in a crowded retail store help shoppers find just the right gift. An airplane cruises at 500 miles per hour, 30,000 feet in Read more…

It’s Not ‘Mobile Spark,’ But It’s Close

On April 1, 2015, Apache Spark PMC member Reynold Xin wrote a compelling blog detailing plans to deliver a mobile version of Spark. It was all a joke, of course: Spark was a heavy bit of code designed for distributed sys Read more…

Coding for the Edge: Six Lessons for Success

Edge computing is expanding dramatically as organizations rush to realize the benefits in latency, flexibility, cost, and performance that the edge can deliver. IDC estimates that global spending on edge hardware, softwa Read more…

Data Going to Waste, WANdisco Says

A new report unveiled by WANdisco this week finds that companies are struggling to move data out of silos and into places where it can be analyzed and used for the benefit of the company, including driving digital transf Read more…

Nvidia Bolsters Edge AI and Autonomous Robots at GTC 2022

Amid the flood of news coming out of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) today were  pair of announcements aimed at accelerating the development of AI on the edge and enabling autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs. Read more…

It’s About Time for InfluxData

These are heady times for InfluxDB, which is the world’s most popular time-series database, which has been the fastest growing category of databases the past two years, per DB-Engines.com. But when Paul Dix and his par Read more…

Logistics Operators Look to Data, Technology for Advantage

Things are bit of a mess when it comes to logistics at the moment. We’re still feeling the ripple effects from the COVID-induced economic shutdown in early 2020, and a critical worker shortage here in the United States Read more…

Confluent S-1 Reveals ‘Reimagining of Business’ Theme

Kafka-backer Confluent yesterday published its S-1 with the SEC, which it previously kept confidential when it originally filed to go public back in April. The 198-page document reveals some details about Confluent, as w Read more…

Qualcomm Unveils 5G Modem for IoT

Companies that need high-speed data connections to their far-flung Internet of Things (IoT) devices may be interested in the latest 5G modem unveiled today by Qualcomm. The San Diego, California mobile chip giant toda Read more…

ASICs on the Edge Help GE Digital Optimize Energy

Edge computing is nothing new. General Electric has been collecting and processing data from jet engines and wind turbines for decades. But the dynamics at play in terms of matching the huge volumes of data generated in Read more…

Can Digital Twins Help Modernize Electric Grids?

Recent failures of electric grids in Texas and California have highlighted the difficulties that energy companies and regulators face in ensuring the delivery of reliable and affordable power while simultaneously switchi Read more…

Getting a Foot in the Door for Smart City Projects

The potential impact of smart city initiatives is colossal. PwC pegged it as a $2.5 trillion opportunity by 2025. But getting projects greenlit for long term deployment can be quite difficult, especially with budget shor Read more…

Hitching a Ride to the Edge with Akamai

The edge, according to marketers, is a magical place where nearly anything is possible. But for Akamai Technologies, the $18-billion company that put content delivery networks (CDNs) on the map during the dot-com boom, t Read more…

Esri Boosts ‘Velocity” of ArcGIS for IoT

Esri, the location intelligence and geospatial analytics specialist, is accelerating its Internet of Things analytics platform as more industries integrate geospatial sensor data and real-time analytics into their operat Read more…

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