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The widely held belief that billions upon billions of interconnected devices will make up the Internet of Things within just a handful of years rests partly on a parallel assumption: That many of these devices will be tiny sensors often deployed in far-flung places.
The discussion around keeping important legacy software systems up and running for the long term sometimes centers on the concept of third-party maintenance, where major upgrades are pushed off but important tax updates and bug fixes keep getting applied.
Adobe will soon roll out digital signature capabilities based on an open standard it worked on as part of the Cloud Signature Consortium. The vendor says this is an industry first. Here are the key details from Adobe's announcement:
Services Vendors Need To Move Beyond Trump, H1B, and Re-skilling Concerns
Constellation participated in the 25th edition of Nasscom’s India Leadership Forum 2017 (NILF17) in Mumbai at the Grand Hyatt. Though everyone was here to Reimagine, not Re-engineer , during the off-stage conversations with technology buyers, IT services providers, and the press, the hot topics included:
Any description of the Digital Services Economy will focus on the development of marketplaces through hyper connectivity, and massive data flows. Those enterprises that become competitive winners have learnt how to read and respond in an optimized manner to new business opportunities. The Digital Enterprise Business model demands new levels of Enterprise activity integration.
Building Digital Ecosystems, Platform Strategy & Customer-Centric Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 49
In DisrupTV Episode 49, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar bring together three thought leaders who each bring a different vantage on technology, platforms, and innovation:
IBM Machine Learning for z/OS could be a boon to big banks and insurance companies that want advanced analytics on the mainframe. Next up is the IBM Power platform. Public … Continue reading →
Nokia is betting it can be a player in IoT by offering enterprises a single place to acquire a global IoT networking footprint. Here are the key details from its announcement at Mobile World Congress:
Spark Summit East highlights progress on machine learning, deep learning and continuous applications combining batch and streaming workloads.
Despite challenges including a new location and a nasty Nor’easter that put a crimp on travel, Spark Summit East managed to draw more than 1,500 attendees to its February 7-9 run at the John B. Hynes Convention Center in Boston. It was the latest testament to growing adoption of Apache Spark, and the event underscored promising developments in areas including machine learning, deep learning and streaming applications.
Oracle is not giving up hope of winning a copyright infringement case against Google over the latter's use of Java in Android, after losing two trials and an initial appeal.
Salesforce's Einstein AI technology has surfaced in its Service Cloud product suite as the company moves to embed AI in all of its applications. Here are the key details from Salesforce's announcement:
Microsoft will soon make what appears to be a useful and differentiating service generally available for its Azure SQL cloud database. Here are the key details from Redmond's announcement:
While there's a long way to go, the tech industry continues to coalesce around IoT security. In the latest instance, some of the biggest names in networking and security are forming a new alliance. Here are the key deals from AT&T's announcement:
Digital Health, Cybersecurity & Leading Tech Change in Healthcare | DisrupTV Ep. 48
In DisrupTV Episode 48, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar host a conversation with:
Competition in the IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) markets is getting fiercer all the time, but now Microsoft has come up with an additional differentiator besides cost and performance to lure customers to its Azure service: Protection from patent troll lawsuits.
We've started an innovative leadership research project within our global Constellation Research ecosystem to feature executive profiles like this one of David Chou, one of our Constellation Executive Network members. David's arguably the gold standard as an active Twitter Top 100 Social CIO who I mentioned in this earlier blog post.
Hear David live on DisrupTV