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How digital twins improve physical systems
This emerging technology merges the physical and digital worlds in ways that have the potential to transform many industries.
Why traditional IP networking is wrong for the cloud
Legacy networking approaches don’t align with the way that cloud providers create services or access and only introduce more complexity. Move to the cloud, but leave your traditional networking behind.
How to choose a cloud IoT platform
Your cloud IoT platform must monitor IoT endpoints and event streams, analyze data at the edge and in the cloud, and enable application development and deployment.
Edge computing: The architecture of the future
To fully digitize the last mile of business, you need to distribute compute power where it's needed most -- right next to IoT devices that collect data from the real world.
Sumo Logic enhances observability suite for app, infrastructure performance
The new DevSecOps-oriented tools, announced this week at the company's Illuminate virtual conference, are part of Sumo Logic's Continuous Intelligence platform, and designed to provide real-time, deeper insights into critical...
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Making the case for the intelligent edge
Let’s look at reasons to push core AI processes out of the centralized public cloud to the edge.
Microsoft, Google partner on eBPF
The extended Berkeley Packet Filter, which can run sandboxed programs in an operating system kernel, is moving beyond Linux.
Cloud and digital transformation gain speed
Leading companies that jumped in early are reaping the rewards, but it’s not too late for lagging organizations. Find the people and partners to help you move ahead.
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Edge computing archetypes are emerging, and they are not pretty
As edge computing explodes, we’re faced with complexity, security, and management challenges that don’t have easy answers.
Is geofencing a protective bubble or a heap of trouble?
A tool that monitors your location and immediately alerts authorities could either be a public-health carrot or an authoritarian stick.
Weaponizing the cloud to fight addiction
We’re seeing a rise in overdose deaths in the U.S. during the pandemic. Perhaps it’s time to leverage cloud technology to address this problem.
Microsoft’s innovative new tools for the ‘new normal’
Support for social distancing, remote collaboration, immersive reality, and biosensing are top announcements at Ignite 2020
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Amazon, Google, and Microsoft take their clouds to the edge
As enterprises ramp up edge computing deployments, the big three clouds are ponying up a surprising array of edge options for a broad range of needs.
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Edge computing: The next generation of innovation
The future of enterprise tech won't be confined to the data center mothership -- nor even the public cloud. Wedded to the internet of things, edge computing puts processing horsepower wherever it needs to go.
The Internet of Things in 2020: More vital than ever
Just when we needed it most, the internet of things is delivering gobs of data and remote device control across almost every industry, from healthcare to agriculture.
Telecommuting in a post-COVID U.S. will be radically different. And that's a very good thing.
IT execs need to start talking with other C-levels now and figure out what they want their post-COVID company to look like.
Remote working, now and forevermore?
Employees around the world are suddenly working from home full-time. Find out how to make the new WFH reality work for your organization, whether it will last beyond the pandemic, and where it might take us.
How to create a SQL Server failover cluster in the Google Cloud (redux)
A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud
Zeek and Jitsi: 2 open source projects we need now
Long proven but not well known, these network security monitoring and video conferencing tools couldn’t be more timely
