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Oh, the anticipation of it all. Long before enough of the new devices get into users’ hands to make a mainstream impact, 5G connectivity has been stirring up increasing attention in many sectors. From IT, retail, transportation and manufacturing to health care, entertainment, education and agriculture, nearly every industry will be impacted in some way […]

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 the […]

DevOps is usually defined as a software development methodology that combines software development with IT operations. The goal is to shorten systems’ development life cycle while delivering features, fixes and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives. Putting DevOps into practice is an ongoing experiment for many organizations. Developers often struggle with continuous integration […]

During the past year, numerous high-profile companies, organizations and government agencies have witnessed a wave of digital accessibility lawsuits. In the government space, the number of federal website accessibility lawsuits nearly tripled between 2017 and 2018. Outside of government, Harvard University is one of the latest organizations facing legal action due to inaccessible digital content—specifically, failing to […]

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 […]

Three out of every four organizations on the planet have some sort of cloud presence. According to a 2018 IDG survey, 77 percent of enterprises now have at least one application or some portion of their enterprise computing infrastructure in the cloud. Enterprises also revealed in that same report that they planned to invest an […]

Today: GridGain Systems (in-memory systems and application speed and scalability provider) Company description: GridGain Systems claims it is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering an in-memory computing platform built on Apache Ignite which addresses the application speed and scalability challenges created by digital transformation. GridGain solutions are used by global enterprises in financial services, […]

It’s no secret that tech automation is poised to upend many traditional careers. The good news is that if you have the right technical background, your skills are in greater demand than ever. In fact, according to a recent survey by the Consumer Technology Association, 92% of employers reported that they’ll “need more employees with […]

By Paul M. Shomo SAN FRANCISCO–Earlier this month, the top cybersecurity startups traveled to the new and improved Moscone Center to battle it out at the RSA Security Conference’s “Shark Tank”-style competition. These eminent data scientists, cyber warriors and scrappy entrepreneurs delivered three-minute pitches before the judges of Innovation Sandbox. The resultant Q&As were some […]

Today’s topics include how a recent data privacy rule appeal could affect competition for companies like Google, Amazon moving call centers to the cloud with Amazon Connect, Microsoft’s efforts to replace the office phone with Skype for Business and Brocade’s new fibre channel switch for flash data centers. Internet giants like Google and Facebook could […]

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