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If IT operations teams want to deliver maximum business value from AIOps (artificial intelligence operations) deployments, they should pay attention to these five common mistakes that can trip their best-laid plans.  Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is an umbrella term for the use of big data analytics, machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence […]

While some of the practices and technologies associated with DevOps are still immature, small teams have nevertheless evolved to a more comprehensive engagement with their company’s overall IT capabilities. Teams that have enjoyed this kind of success are seeing happier customers and are being congratulated by upper management. But what is next?  Organizational leaders are […]

Open-source cloud applications have gone mainstream. More companies are using open-source apps in business-critical software stacks, and the extent of reliance is gaining momentum. However, a common struggle comes up with many enterprise deployments: how to manage the operations of open-source applications in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Open-source operations are difficult due to the differing […]

From software companies in the heart of Silicon Valley to financial services leaders in New York to hotels and restaurants in the central United States, all have faced a similarly frustrating experience from time to time: poor indoor wireless connectivity.  Facing the breaking point when it comes to complaints from employees and customers, most IT […]

Today: Company Name: Alluxio (data orchestration software) Company description:  Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the developer of open source data orchestration software for the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to big data and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds and countries, providing memory-speed […]

For a decade and a half, PCIe connectivity hardware has delivered improved computing performance despite a smaller footprint on motherboards. The PCIe serial bus has helped usher in new advancements in computing applications, from increased capacity drives for in-memory processing to larger-capacity scratch disks and graphics processing units (GPUs) for 3D video and graphics processing. […]

From workloads and applications and splitting workload traffic for redundancy to optimizing feature sets and identifying the best way to manage and track cloud costs, there are a number of areas to consider when moving to a multi-cloud strategy. The combination of benefits that can be achieved has driven up the popularity of a multi-cloud […]

Since 2003, the PCIe connection has delivered enhanced computing performance and throughput with a smaller footprint on motherboards. A bastion for innovation, the PCIe serial bus has helped usher in new advancements in computing applications, from increased capacity drives for in-memory processing to larger-capacity scratch disks and GPUs for 3D video and graphics processing. PCIe […]

Using the term “community” to describe technology innovation for analytics and business intelligence (A&BI) may seem an unlikely pairing. But consider the discussion around data culture and data collaboration that has been circulating for years without a solution that gives business users real power to act on their data questions. Just as many technology innovations […]

We all know the overall cloud services and software business is growing at warp speed, but it can be beneficial to enterprise decision-makers if experts break down the categories (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS and others) for more clarity.  Industry analyst Gartner Inc. reported Aug. 10 that the worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew a […]

Here is the latest article in an eWEEK feature series called IT Science, in which we look at what actually happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because […]

New data from Synergy Research Group released July 30 shows that second quarter spending on cloud infrastructure services passed the $30 billion milestone, an increase of an impressive $7.5 billion from the second quarter of 2019.  This continues the trend of ever-larger increments in cloud spending. Q2 2019 spending grew $6.5 billion from Q2 2018, […]