Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
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In this article, we provide eight recommendations to ensure that applications run fast for users. The first four recommendations apply to Web-based applications in general, including cloud-based applications, and the final four are specific to cloud-based applications. All of these recommendations are geared toward measuring the most important performance metric: how a user actually experiences an app.
The IT infrastructure management landscape is being transformed.
Fortunately in the last few years, cloud platforms have become more standardized and instrumented, virtualization has become more pervasive throughout standard platforms, and automation frameworks have become available that enable us to manage virtualized resources automatically.2 This allows organizations that plan to adopt or are already are using SDIs to leverage a strategy already in use in many other complex environments: dashboarding.
Watson Analytics provides immediate analytic processing from the cloud for business-related queries. The most interesting aspect, however, is not in its application of big data to the solution of queries -- a process that is handled by IBM's Cognos TM1 as a back end -- but in its application in simplifying the user interface and making analytics accessible to a wider range of business professionals.
Containerization gives an organization more than just a reduction in redundancy by eliminating resource-hogging services that do not need to be replicated.
This Advisor explores some of the exhibits highlighted at Internet of Things World 2015, such as Intel's interactive model of a smart city, Samsung's Artik hardware-software modules for IoT devices, and Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite.
Not so long ago, the top conferences attended by IT professionals revolved around organizations sharing arcane technical aspects of particular technologies or venues where manufacturers tipped their R&D hand to loyal purchasing departments. Some of these gatherings have gone by the wayside much like some of the information systems highlighted in them (e.g., COMDEX).
For me, there are a few key points coming out of this year's IT trends issue (or, more accurately, over the last several IT trends issues).