Cloud services and sales of SaaS applications boosted Oracle revenue for its last fiscal quarter, but the price of keeping up with the leading hyperscale cloud providers dragged down overall profit. During a call with analysts after the results were announced Thursday, Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison named a long roster of high-profile customers…
Retailers have shown remarkable resilience during the pandemic, and things are looking up now that restrictions are easing and people are eager to visit stores again. In a recent Deloitte survey of senior retail executives, 86 percent expect revenue growth this year. But many challenges remain. The $26 trillion industry has been hit by a triple whammy…
Even though they have been around for years, the phrase “MLPerf benchmarks” holds little meaning to most people outside of the AI developer community. However, this community-driven benchmark suite, which measures performance of a broad range of machine learning (ML) tasks, is quickly becoming the gold standard for the fair and unbiased assessment of accelerated…
The manufacturing industry has a history of embracing innovations designed to improve efficiencies, quality, and worker safety. Consider the impact Henry Ford made by bringing the assembly line to auto manufacturing, creating previously unheard-of efficiencies. Today, manufacturers are using newer tools like robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) to achieve similar goals. But they…
One of many complexity challenges when it comes to the modern IT landscape is that different functional areas and IT domains are heavily invested in their own systems and data silos. This leaves IT leaders stuck navigating a wave of transparency, security, and governance roadblocks that are impeding the imperative for data-first modernization. Silos have…
If you’ve used a chatbot, predictive text to finish a thought in an email, or pressed “0” to speak to an operator, you’ve come across natural language processing (NLP). As more enterprises adopt NLP, the sub-field is developing beyond those popular use cases of machine-human communication to machines interpreting both human and non-human language. This…
The vast majority of IT organizations live in a multicloud world, striving to optimize for agile business while mitigating the risk of single-vendor dependence. Yet distributing workloads across a diverse landscape can create complexity and transparency challenges that beg for modern solutions. The allure of a multicloud landscape shows no signs of abating. This approach…
Your grandmother’s advice still stands: Don’t quit your current job until you have a written offer in hand. Yes, it is a job-seeker’s market, with more perks and flexibility on the table than in past years. But it can take months, requiring multiple rounds of interviews with several levels of signoffs, to actually land a…
By Niall Browne, CISO The traditional security operations center (SOC) is based on a model that has persisted for decades, yet it’s no longer effective. Too much has shifted in organizations and in the threat landscape for the “old ways” to work. Now is the time for a change to enable a modern SOC—taking on…
There’s no better type of job security than indispensability. Once an IT leader is regarded as essential by his or her employer, recognition rises, colleagues begin listening, project doors swing open, and salaries and benefits skyrocket. Achieving indispensability isn’t as challenging as it may sound. It can be easily acquired by embracing several common traits…