Tag: application

February 27, 2023

The power of the cloud offers two distinct paths for organizations: They can choose to simply move part of their application and data estate to the cloud or undertake an organizational reinvention more broadly through the cloud. The former entails […]

August 16, 2022

Modern software development teams use fast-paced DevOps work processes. However, the complexity of modern software applications often gets in the way. A typical enterprise software project has thousands of components, many of them third-party and open source components that are […]

June 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. That’s the consensus from members of CIO.com’s community of IT experts who weighed in on how a cloud-first approach to […]

May 13, 2020

Security as a service is probably one of the most popular SaaS offerings right now due to the ubiquitous nature of threats these days and the fact that countering advanced attacks requires finely tuned defenses. If a company makes or […]

September 16, 2019

Customers today are no longer satisfied by the traditional consumer-business relationship. Instead, they expect engaging and informative digital experiences. In order to match these expectations and stay ahead of the curve, organizations must lean into digital transformation. Businesses need to […]

September 6, 2019

It’s 4:00 in the morning, and you are awoken out of a sound sleep by a phone call from your cloudops center. It seems the inventory application in the public cloud is down. You know this because some tile on […]

November 20, 2018

The act of securing units of IT on the cloud is a great example of the tyranny of choice. We all like to think we get the best solution for our organisation, one that will reduce our business risk, be […]

August 28, 2018

It’s 8:00 p.m., and you’re looking to complete a sprint to push out a net new cloud-native application. You make the deadline, but sending the application to the testing group takes two more weeks to push first to deployment and […]

May 26, 2017

At its massive customer conference held last week in Orlando, SAP made it clear that it was charting a new course for the future. In announcing Leonardo — what it calls a digital innovation system — and in interviews with […]

May 22, 2017

When Google first told the world about its Tensor Processing Unit, the strategy behind it seemed clear enough: Speed machine learning at scale by throwing custom hardware at the problem. Use commodity GPUs to train machine-learning models; use custom TPUs […]

May 16, 2017

Have you heard the fairy tale that application performance on the cloud is automatically optimized, without any effort from developers or administrators? Too many people believe it’s reality, and not a fairy tale. Read More on InfoWorld Cloud Computing

May 15, 2017

It’s a common misconception for people to imagine that business applications can be beamed up, Star Trek style, into the cloud and that the IT team just needs to press a few buttons and whoosh, the migration is done. If […]

January 19, 2016

Cloud app provider Infor has invested $25 million in data scientist Predictix with a brief to use its powers of analysis to solve the problems troubling modern retailers. Infor will become a reseller of Predictix, incorporating its applications in the […]