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Chasing Snowflakes in the new database boomtown - SiliconANGLE

How Nvidia plans to own the data center with AI - SiliconANGLE

Debunking the myth of cloud repatriation SHARE Cloud repatriation is a term often used by technology companies that don’t operate a public cloud. The marketing narrative most typically implies that customers have moved work to the public cloud and, for a variety of reasons – expense, performance, security – are disillusioned with the cloud and as a result are “repatriating” workloads back to their safe, comfy and cost-effective on-premises data center. Althou...

Chaos means cash for criminals and cybersecurity companies SHARE The pandemic not only accelerated a shift to digital, it highlighted a rush of cybercriminal sophistication, collaboration and chaotic responses from virtually every major company on the planet. The SolarWinds hack exposed digital supply chain weaknesses and appears to have accelerated so-called island-hopping techniques that are exceedingly difficult to detect. Moreover, the will and aggressiveness of we...

How Apple could hold the key to Intel's future - SiliconANGLE

A digital skills gap signals a rebound in tech services spending SHARE Recent survey data from Enterprise Technology Research shows that enterprise tech spending is tracking with projected U.S. GDP growth at 6% to 7% this year. And many markers continue to point the way to a strong recovery including hiring trends and the loosening of frozen information technology project budgets. However, skills shortages are blocking progress at some companies, which bodes well for a...

SHARE UiPath Inc. is going public this coming week to become the next hot software company to stage an initial public offering. But it has had a long, strange trip to its IPO. How so? Well, the robotic process automation company, whose software mimics human interactions using software scripts or robots that execute human tasks in discrete steps, was started way back in 2005. But its culture is akin to a frenetic startup. The firm shunned conventions and, instead of focusing on a narrow geograph...

Moore’s Law is dead, right? Think again. Although the historical annual improvement of about 40% in central processing unit performance is slowing, the combination of CPUs packaged with alternative processors is improving at a rate of more than 100% per annum. These unprecedented and massive improvements in processing power combined with data and artificial intelligence will completely change the way we think about designing hardware, writing software and applying technology to businesses. Ev...

CLOUD Satya Nadella lays out a vision at Ignite 2021: What it means for Microsoft and the cloud SHARE Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella sees a different future for cloud computing over the coming decade. In his Microsoft Ignite keynote this past week, Nadella (pictured) laid out the five attributes that will define the cloud in the next 10 years. His vision is a cloud platform that is decentralized, ubiquitous, intelligent, sensing and tr...

SHARE Software-as-a-service companies have been some of the strongest performers during this COVID-19 era. They finally took a bit of a breather this month but remain generally well-positioned for the next several years with their predictable revenue models and cloud-based offerings. Meanwhile, the demise of on-premises data center legacy players from COVID shock seems to have been overstated, in part because of the return of the laptop and, in the case of Oracle Corp., what some see as a cloud...