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Low Code Gets an Industrial-Strength Boost
The rapid turnaround approach to enterprise application development known as low code continues to gain momentum with this week’s acquisition of cloud native application development specialist Mendix by the ...Full Article
Modernizing ‘Cranky’ Rendering Code for HPC-based Animation
When Miguel – the 12-year old protagonist of “Coco,” the recently released film from Disney and Pixar – first sees the Land of the Dead, it’s a beautiful moment ...Full Article
Scaling the Cloud and High Availability: Two Perspectives, One Approach
System administrators and database administrators have different perspectives on high availability (HA). The differences can cause problems ranging from consternation and conflict to wasted investments and excessive downtime. While ...Full Article
Istio Service Mesh Advances to Production
Istio, the “service mesh” intended to connect application components and thereby boost the capabilities of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator, has advanced over the past year as a way of ...Full Article
New Tools Bridge the Data Lake-Data Warehouse Divide
For 30+ years, we've had the notion of a data warehouse, a single, central store of vetted data that is used for authoritative analysis. But building the data warehouse ...Full Article
Robotic Process Automation: Best Friend for Back-Office Workers
Robotic process automation (RPA) — a close cousin of and a first step on the way to AI — is changing the way companies work. Enterprises look to RPA ...Full Article
Overstock.com Sparks Customer Insights from Decades of Data – ‘Fast Is Never Fast Enough’
We often hear that online retail is among the business sectors furthest along on its digital transformation and AI journeys. Overstock.com , the giant (2017 revenues: $1.75 billion) internet ...Full Article
Google, VMware Partner on Hybrid Cloud Tools
Google and VMware are collaborating on a new cloud plug-in connecting a pair of VMware tools designed to enable provisioning of virtual machines and storage on the search giant’s ...Full Article
Data Security In the News: The Weight of GDPR, Widespread Retail Breaches, Cloud Worries, More Venture Investment
News on the data security front has intensified of late, including new survey results indicating prevalent security breaches in the vulnerable retail industry, escalating cloud-based security fears, significant contract ...Full Article
Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars
Google continues to extend the reach of its cloud platform with a new feature that allows cloud customers to deploy commercial and open source applications ranging from databases and ...Full Article
