Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has made a number of changes to the company’s management team, six months after the company’s co-CEO Bret Taylor announced he was leaving the organization. The roles of chief revenue officer, chief marketing officer, chief operating officer, and chief of staff are among the jobs that are undergoing a personnel or…
A tremendous number of enterprises and service providers view Cisco as the nexus of their network, security, and cloud operations. At the company’s Cisco Live customer and partner conference in June, Cisco boldly connected the dots of a network- and cloud-based ecosystem that ties together innovative technologies to drive productivity, resiliency, and growths, while also…
Anyone who works in the culinary arts, construction or other trades can vouch for the value of multipurpose tools and the wherewithal to use them. Give a seasoned chef professional-grade knives, cast iron and carbon steel cookware and there’s little that he or she cannot accomplish in the kitchen. Experienced construction workers handle many tasks…
By Patrick McFadin, DataStax developer relations and contributor to the Apache Cassandra project. Netflix tracks every user’s actions to instantly refine its recommendation engine, then uses this data to propose the content users will love. Uber gathers driver, rider, and partner data in the moment and then updates a prediction engine that informs customers about…
Every IT organization has hidden experts. These individuals, possessing extraordinary talents, help their teams reach new levels of innovation, planning, productivity, and efficiency. Discovering these unique individuals, and then elevating them to positions where they can achieve maximum effectiveness, is a skill that every CIO should learn. Spotting promising talent requires keeping a close pulse…
The NBA’s full-court press on digital technologies has revolutionized the fan, player, and team experience, thanks to accelerated deployment of cloud, analytics, AI, and computer vision technologies since the association launched its digital transformation in 2020. NBA EVP and CTO Krishna Bhagavathula, a former NBC News CTO who has been with the National Basketball Association…
At the end of the 1960s, Spanish businessman Abel Matutes had an ambitious dream to bring paradise closer to travelers by offering incredible experiences. The result was what is now the Palladium Hotel Group, a hotel chain with 10 different brands spread across Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. But the company’s history…
The Pandemic has pushed companies to accelerate their digital journey, large companies are already being encouraged to replace their traditional working methods with telematic ones. Proof of this is the KSA Cloud First Policy, announced in October 2020 by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications and InformationTechnologies, after the launch of a cloud data center in…
Lo scorso lunedì, Microsoft ha annunciato di essere in procinto di lanciare la sua prima cloud region in Italia. La nuova realtà, che avrà tre data center [in inglese], sarà situata in Lombardia. Le imprese potranno iniziare a utilizzare la nuova region utilizzando Microsoft Azure [in inglese] o Microsoft 365 [in inglese] già nelle prossime…
L’edge computing offre grandi vantaggi potenziali alle aziende, nei più disparati comparti merceologici. Questo modello di calcolo distribuito che avvicina l’archiviazione e l’analisi dei dati alle loro fonti, può offrire, infatti, alle aziende tempi di risposta migliori, una minore latenza di rete, una riduzione dei costi della larghezza di banda e persino una maggiore sicurezza.…