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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…

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…

As Cloud Coverage Expands, Salaries Also Rise

The march to the cloud continued in 2021, as hyperscalers opened more data centers and customers ran more workloads in the cloud. As the cloud becomes the defacto standard platform for transactional and analytical worklo 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…

Six Key Design Considerations for Stateful Applications at the Edge

According to Gartner, by 2025, 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside of a traditional centralized data center or cloud. This means data will come from everywhere, with applications, devic Read more…

MinIO, Now Worth $1B, Still Hungry for Data

MinIO was founded in 2014 near the peak of the Hadoop craze with what seemed like an outlandish idea: Build an open source object storage system based on Amazon S3. Eight years later, with a $1 billion valuation followin Read more…

Top Trends for Business Analytics for the Rest of 2021

Data powers business. Organizations rely on it to remain successful and competitive, but they have traditionally performed analysis on huge volumes of historical data to make critical decisions. The impact of the Covid-1 Read more…

Cost Overruns and Misgovernance: Two Threats to Your Cloud Data Journey

So you’re moving data into the cloud. That’s great! After all, cloud compute and storage can supercharge your organizations’ digital strategy. But you should also be aware of new challenges that you will face, incl Read more…

Bridging the Gaps in Edge Computing

Aside from the lure of the public clouds, which got bigger and stronger in 2020 amid the COVID-19 scourge, the world of data and analytics became a lot more distributed last year. While it seems clear that most AI models Read more…

TigerGraph Roars with $105 Million Round

Upstart graph analytics company TigerGraph today announced the completion of a Series C round of funding worth $105 million. The funding validates TigerGraph’s approach, according to the company, which says it will use 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…

Database Shift to the Edge Accelerates

As edge devices generate ever-larger data quantities, data management specialists are offering new frameworks to reduce reliance on cloud services by embedding intelligence to perform storage and analysis locally. To Read more…

2021 Predictions from the Edge and IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been lurking on the edge of our networks and our consciousness for some time. With a substantial increase in bandwidth promised via 5G networks, the potential for businesses to seize a co Read more…

Verizon Expands Deal with AWS for 5G Edge Platform

Verizon added Denver and Seattle to the list of cities that will be the recipients of a mobile edge computing (MEC) platform called 5G Edge that it co-developed with Amazon Web Services to accelerate data processing--inc Read more…

Why Databases Are Needed on the Edge

The proliferation of smart devices and the IoT are putting pressure on developers to adopt more sophisticated processes to manage data. Some developers may prefer to continue using simpler file systems to keep track of d Read more…

Surviving Radical Disruption with Data Intelligence

It’s no secret that data has grown in volume, variety and velocity, with 2.5 quintillion bytes generated every day and 90 percent of the world’s data volume created just in the last two years. This data explosion Read more…

Openness a Big Advantage as Edge Grows, IBM Says

A large computational build-up is predicted to occur on the edge in the coming years, as organizations look to capture and act upon data as soon after it’s generated as possible, when it has the highest value. Today, t Read more…

Is Kubernetes Overhyped?

The amount of attention paid to Kubernetes has increased substantially over the past couple of years. What started out as a relatively obscure container management system open sourced by Google has turned into the must-h Read more…

To Centralize or Not to Centralize Your Data–That Is the Question

Should you strive to centralize your data, or leave it scattered about? It seems like it should be a simple question, but it’s actually a tough one to answer, particularly because it has so many ramifications for how d Read more…

5G is Driving the Acceleration of Customer Expectations

Fifth-generation wireless technology, more commonly known as 5G, promises download speeds of up to 100 times faster than 4G, all with dramatically lower latency. U.S. carriers are beginning to boast about the number of 5 Read more…

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