I spoke with Ismail Amla, EVP of Professional Services at NCR, about the major changes in how retail data is handled; he also explained key trends in data brokerages. Among the topics we covered: What trends are driving the data market now, in terms of retail and customer data? Are companies fully aware of how …
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Graph databases and models have been around for well over a decade, and are among the most impactful technologies to emerge from the NoSQL movement. Graph data models are natively designed to focus on the relationships within and between data, representing data as nodes connected by edges. As such, the graph model is strikingly similar …
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I spoke with Sachin Katti, Network and Edge Group CTO at Intel, about the relationship between cloud and edge computing, as both sectors are undergoing exceptionally rapid growth. Among the topics we covered: How would you describe the state of cloud-to-edge technology? Edge is clearly seeing a major growth surge in 2022, yet cloud is …
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By this time, you’ve probably read so many stories about enterprises adopting private 5G networks that you feel like a student who finds out they’re not one of the cool kids. Can you ever hold your head up in a tech conference and admit you’re not running private 5G yet? Take heart! Maybe you’re not …
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Today, choosing the right cloud provider – or group of cloud vendors – is critical. Yet performance and costs are merely starting points. Organizations also require agility and flexibility to expand into digital initiatives, ranging from IoT and robotics to digital twins and machine learning. The ideal cloud platform serves your unique business needs. Two …
Wi-Fi has become an indispensable technology in enterprise networks, supporting enough bandwidth and individual channels to make all-wireless LANs feasible, thanks in large part to 802.11ax, the standard more commonly called Wi-Fi 6. What is 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6)? Wi-Fi 6 was officially certified in 2020 and has quickly become the de facto standard for wireless …
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With rapid business expansion often comes data siloing, where one department doesn’t share its data with any of the others. While this may be noticed and fixed quickly in a small business, in a larger company with many sites and a global network, it’s much harder to alleviate. I’ve read that 73% of company data …
Two recent Internet of Things (IoT)-related surveys and reports emphasize use cases about efficiencies and return on investments. But surprisingly, there is no mention of people safety nor productivity. It is imperative to place people at the heart of the IoT universe. Today, people-related use cases have been greatly understated. However, all angles of IoT …
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I spoke with Bernard Golden, Executive Technical Advisor at VMware, about the move toward cloud native, and how companies can improve their cloud native deployments. Where are businesses with cloud native? I’ve read mixed reports on how eagerly companies are moving to the model. As businesses grapple with the move toward cloud native, what advice …
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Handling data is challenging in this era in this era of digital transformation. Keeping track of all the bits, bytes and scraps of data strewn across an enterprise—and beyond—is a daunting task. Understanding what exactly is taking place and tracking performance at any given moment is critical for maximum business success. Dashboards aim to deliver …