Sign of the Times: Bots Earning More Credibility Than People
Remember 2019? That may have been the last time anyone wondered about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
There’s no point restating the many ways the COVID-19 pandemic hammered people and organizations over the intervening year. Many organizations turned to digital tools to keep the lights on–in most cases accelerating tech modernization plans already in place. One of those tools was...
Why Most People Trust Robots Over Other People for Mental Health
When Dak Prescott made public his struggles with mental health, the star quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys was met with public statements of support—and some derision as well. To some people, it was a risible admission of weakness. Prescott wouldn’t have faced negative reactions if he had been discussing a torn ligament or other physical ailment. All the more reason...
How the Pandemic is Teaching Tech Some Crossover Moves
The long-term impact of COVID-19 will be written not just in the acceleration of remote work and the concomitant adoption of enabling technologies such as cloud, collaboration tools and video conferencing. This pandemic will also come to be seen as a moment when industries were forced to look outside their boxes and borrow ideas from one another to stay...
How to Make Cloud Pricing More Transparent
Cloud has inspired almost as much evangelical fervor as open source computing, particularly in the heady 2000s. The advent of cloud computing seemed to render traditional enterprise software vendors as out-of-date as telegraph operators. The monolithic process of releasing software every 18 months wasn’t fast enough for business, running your own servers became as fashionable as generating your own...
Recognizing the Right Stuff in Cloud Security
A plethora of cybersecurity breaches at both public and private sector entities over the past few months shows not only how far the industry has to go to shore up its defenses, but how much more sophisticated attackers have become, and how much more sophisticated they will likely get.Many businesses have now concluded–-correctly, most experts believe–-that cloud computing offers...
Security Takeaways from Oracle Media Day Event
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. –– At their company's annual Media Days event earlier this month, Oracle executives offered some perspectives on cloud and cybersecurity issues affecting just about every enterprise with an IT system. And that means virtually every business on Earth.Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect, participated in a fireside chat with Dorian Daley, Oracle executive vice president and general...