According to the World Meteorological Organization, global temperatures are set to reach new records in the next five years. The Copernicus Programme also reports that multiple global heat records were broken in July 2023. Today, climate change is a real threat with disastrous consequences to businesses. Rising cybercrimes are another significant threat to businesses, causing […]

For good reason there is a lot of discussion about multi-cloud among enterprise data architects, CIO/CDOs, industry analysts and tech illuminati. But what is multi-cloud? The term suffers from ambiguity and misunderstanding that often plague emerging technology architecture concepts. We’re best to understand what multi-cloud is (and isn’t) in the frame of the “pain” multi-cloud […]

Today we are announcing the rename of Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, a fully managed and serverless service for you to build and run real-time streaming applications using Apache Flink. We continue to deliver the same experience in your Flink applications without any impact on ongoing operations, developments, or […]

IBM Maximo has been a leading enterprise asset management solution in the industry for four decades, helping customers streamline work processes with a centralized platform for managing tasks, inventory, regulatory compliance and reporting capabilities. IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS), the next generation of IBM Maximo, delivers a better user experience, faster integration, robust AI analytics […]

A superior customer experience (CX) is built on accurate and timely application performance monitoring (APM) metrics. You can’t fine-tune your apps or system to improve CX until you know what the problem is or where the opportunities are. APM solutions typically provide a centralized dashboard to aggregate real-time performance metrics and insights to be analyzed […]

The manufacturing sector is rife with unprotected Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and devices, many of them integrated into enterprises’ mission-critical systems. The resulting gaps make operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) networks vulnerable to devastating cyberattacks. Visibility is key. Shivan Mandalam, director of product management for IoT security at CrowdStrike, told VentureBeat that “it’s […]

This week, I will meet our customers and partners at the AWS Summit Mexico. If you are around, please come say hi at the community lounge and at the F1 Game Day where I will spend most of my time. I would love to discuss your developer experience on AWS and listen to your stories […]

With nearly 5 billion users worldwide—more than 60% of the global population—social media platforms have become a vast source of data that businesses can leverage for improved customer satisfaction, better marketing strategies and faster overall business growth. Manually processing data at that scale, however, can prove prohibitively costly and time-consuming. One of the best ways […]

Planning and managing your cloud ecosystem and environments is critical for reducing production downtime and maintaining a functioning workload. In the “Managing your cloud ecosystems” blog series, we cover different strategies for ensuring that your setup functions smoothly with minimal downtime. To start things off, the first topic in this blog series is ensuring workload […]

The pandemic swung the IT pendulum to the extreme as businesses rushed to the cloud. Now organizations are seeing the bill come due, and they may be surprised at what they find. While the cloud can be useful for some things, it is not the ideal match for every application and can become costly with […]