What You Missed at AWS Public Sector Summit: Swag, Tech, and Life on Mars
First off, if you don’t have a Data Dogs t-shirt or CloudCheckr sticker on your laptop – it’s not officially an AWS Summit. The swag is as everywhere as usual, and this year AWS set up an area with arcade and old school video games, bean bag chairs, a pool table, and giant versions of […]
Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Are Going All-Out For Young Women in STEM
Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Are Going All-Out For Young Women in STEM “You can’t be what you can’t see.” CARLY CASSELLA, SCIENCE AS FACT 12 MAR 2018 Last week on International Women’s Day, Prince Harry and soon-to-be princess Meghan Markle used their royal platform to support young women and girls pursuing science, technology, engineering […]
The cloud goes critical in 2018: Deep learning, smart cloud infrastructure, and more
From cut-throat competition, eyebrow-raising co-opetition, and major advances in cloud-based machine learning, 2017 was a pivotal – and productive – year for the cloud, setting the stage for what looks likely to be the most exciting year yet. The market swing is already in full force. Thanks to a full-fledged embrace by the enterprise, the […]
Global ICT investment will hit $4 trillion in 2018 – with cloud and hybrid IT infrastructure driving it
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an enabler of economic progress, and a driving force of the Global Networked Economy. Those organizations that have mastered the applications of next-generation technologies are making waves of market disruption everywhere. That said, expect more of the same, at an accelerated pace in future. Worldwide spending on ICT will […]
All Things Distributed: Rethinking the ‘production’ of data
This article titled “Daten müssen strategischer Teil des Geschäfts werden” appeared in German last week in the “IT und Datenproduktion” column of Wirtschaftwoche. How companies can use ideas from mass production to create business with data Strategically, IT doesn’t matter. That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business […]
The Evidence is in: The Cloud’s Advantages are now Clear to Business
The business community is now seeing directly how the cloud is transformative for business, not something simply for technologists to use One of the likely outcomes of moving to the public cloud is altering how products are designed, a recent Harvard Business Review article shows. With cloud, there is closer collaboration between corporate IT departments […]
How serverless reduced our costs by 70%
We focused on converting our services into AWS Lambda functions and our workflows into Step Functions Straight after graduation, I joined a startup called Heavywater Inc — and had no idea what was in store for me. The company is focused on using artificial intelligence virtual assistants to enable business process outsourcing, and the the infrastructure is […]
What is a Kanban Board?
A Kanban board is the key visualization tool for implementing Kanban in your business. A Kanban board is used by any team that uses Kanban for visual management of their work and improving their delivery of products and services in terms of predictability, quality and time-to-market performance. A Kanban board can be physical – which […]
What is Extreme Programming? | Agile Methodology
Definition Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile software development framework that aims to produce higher quality software, and higher quality of life for the development team. XP is the most specific of the agile frameworks regarding appropriate engineering practices for software development. When Applicable The general characteristics where XP is appropriate were described by Don […]