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With a major employment classification fight brewing that could determine pay and benefits for hundreds of thousands of app-based drivers, the field's largest companies and their allies are touting a new poll finding that drivers in Massachusetts largely want to retain the freedom of independent contractors. The Massachusetts Coalition for Independent Work, an industry-funded group that launched in March, commissioned a poll asking drivers on four of the most widely used ride-hailing and delivery platforms about their work patterns and employment preferences. Asked if they would rather be an ...

Say goodbye data silos, hello Yellowbrick Summit David Gordon Mon 26 Apr 2021 // 17:00 UTC Share Promo Compute doesn’t live in one place anymore, and neither does your data. In a cloud native, Kubernetes orchestrated world, workloads and data are no longer restricted to the data center, or even a single cloud. They are equally likely to be out at the edge or getting up close and personal with the internet of things. If you’re struggling to grasp the possibilities this opens up, just consider a world where cloud tooling can be used to bring the myriad of discrete da...

By State House News Service A coalition of business groups, ride-hailing companies and delivery services is touting significant voter support for legislation that would keep drivers on app-based platforms designated as independent contractors rather than employees. The Massachusetts Coalition for Independent Work, which launched last month as companies such as Uber and Lyft target worker classification reforms similar to those they secured in California, published on Tuesday the results of a poll it commissioned finding a majority of voters back a bill (H 1234) filed by Rep. Mar...

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Looking for the way ahead? Follow the Yellowbrick Summit David Gordon Mon 19 Apr 2021 // 18:00 UTC Share Promo The cloud is changing, and how you think about data needs to change too. Edge applications, 5G, and IoT are just some of the ways that data is flowing beyond traditional data centres and out to the edge. This means the “cloud” you use is as likely to a mesh of interconnected resources forming a “logical cloud” as something that lives in a given provider or enterprise’s datacentre. This approach can solve a myriad of problems around security, data gra...