by Chris Boorman
Whatever happened to those intelligent fridges we were promised? The ones
that would send you a message telling you to order more oranges, or notify
your online retailer to deliver more dairy. Those clever fridges were the
most talked about example of how the ‘Internet of Things' (IoT) was meant
to transform our lives. But they never quite arrived.
Is the IoT myth or reality? And if it is reality, what impact is it likely to
have on our everyday lives? And why does business automation hold the key to
IoT success in your organization? It's time to find out.
First, a definition. The IoT is the concept of connecting any device with an
on and off switch to the Internet (and/or to each other). This includes
everything from cell phones and coffee makers, to wearable devices and, of
course, fridges. The IoT also applies to components of machines, for exampl... (more)
What Are the Advantages of Cloud Computing?
By Chris Boorman
Here's a bold claim: Cloud computing has the potential to be as
transformative as the advent of the automobile. Before the age of cars and
buses, everything was undertaken at a fraction of the pace it is
now-transport, distribution, socializing. The automobile revolutionized all
of that, changing forever the way we moved, made friends and worked. Make no
mistake, cloud computing is the 21st Century equivalent of the automobile.
In case you've just returned from several years orbiting Mars, let me just
explain what we me... (more)
How to Tell If Your DevOps Solution Is Working
By Michael Schmidt
Unless you fully automate infrastructure and platform provisioning,
application build, test and deployment phases and have them working together
in sequence, you can't realize the ideal of continuous delivery. These
‘automation tool chains' are a mandatory element of each DevOps
environment.
The number of manual activities in the application test and release processes
can cause a downstream bottleneck. Changes pile up at the end of development
and unit test activities in agile development environments like SCRUM or... (more)
What Is Big Data? Big Load of Nonsense or the Biggest Game-Changer in
Business Today?
By Chris Boorman
The quickest way to understand Big Data is to visualize it. Big Data is the
billions of call detail records that surround every phone call you make or
data message you send. It is the masses and masses of DNA sequencing analyzed
to discover biomedical breakthroughs. It is the millions of individual
transactions that pass through a retailer's point of sale platforms every
day. And it is the billions of financial transactions that personal,
commercial and corporate customers exec... (more)
Batch Processing Is Dead... Again, Right?
By Dave Kellermanns
Why do we keep hearing that batch is dead?
Every time a new technology shows up in the technology stack, its advocates
are quick to dismiss the "old" ways of doing IT. They believe that the "new"
shiny toy has a better solution for everything. Don't believe me? Let's look
at some technologies:
When SAP released SAP R/2 and SAP R/3 in the 90s, the theory behind it was
that processing would move from batch to real-time (in case you wondering -
that "R" stands for real-time). When SOA architecture became the new buzz,
peo... (more)
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