How do organizations effectively identify, plan and sequence work across the whole enterprise and across product portfolios, especially in the knowledge economy and new way of working? And how do you then have proper management and governance of that? These questions are top of mind in an Agile world and questions Rally Software from Broadcom … continue reading
Agile software development is well understood, and the benefits are clear. In the world of software development for mainframes, the benefits are there but there has been some resistance to adopting Agile practices. RELATED CONTENT: The new age of Agile: Evolving from teams to the entire business Enabling Agile on the enterprise mainframe “There’s not … continue reading
AI use is growing rapidly. As with most “new” technologies, organizations are focusing on all the potential opportunities without giving equal weight to the potential risks. While it seems that just about everyone is talking about AI, less discussed, but growing in volume and frequency, is AI ethics which questions whether categories of AI systems … continue reading
Microsoft announced the general availability for the Azure Security Center for IoT to protect the growing number of IoT deployments. According to IDC, IoT deployments will continue to grow at double digit rates until IoT surpasses $1 trillion in 2022. Azure Security Center provides threat intelligence, creates a list of potential threats and ranks them … continue reading
Every week, we have one or two “briefing days” in which we schedule as many as eight one-hour discussions with various technology vendors in our broad coverage area that spans everything from cognitive to customer experience platforms — and everything in between. It’s always fascinating to see the mix of companies we talk to week-to-week. … continue reading
The web is enabling all types of systems and solutions to connect to the Internet, but the tools available today do not cover the entire ecosystem. According to Thomas Pornin, author of the BearSSL library and security consultant at NCC Group, embedded systems are becoming a challenge because most programming languages are geared towards web … continue reading
Now that IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat has closed, the company is transforming its software portfolio to be cloud-native and optimized for Red Hat OpenShift. Enterprises can now build mission-critical applications once and run them on different public clouds including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba, IBM Cloud and private clouds. RELATED CONTENT: Six … continue reading
What if 70 percent of the people developing apps for your organization never studied computer science? Such is the case at the University of South Florida (USF) where low-code development is central to its development strategy. The impetus for the switch from traditional development to low-code started five years ago, when it became apparent that … continue reading
Elastic Stack version 7.3 is now available. The Elastic Stack is made up of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash. The latest release introduces a new data frames feature, anomaly detection, and the general availability of Elastic Maps. Data frames will enable Elasticsearch users to take their data analysis to the next level with machine learning … continue reading
Mobile developers tend to be skeptical about the effectiveness of low-code tools when they know exactly what native iOS and Android development takes. In fact, some developers are so turned off by low-code platforms that the very mention of them triggers a passionate response. “Low-code is bad enough, but low-code for mobile is even worse. … continue reading
Microsoft is providing more insight into how it goes about handling over 500 feature suggestions every month on the Developer Community website and a breakdown of what those suggestions are. Suggestions go through a filtering process that automatically routes incoming suggestions to the appropriate teams. Microsoft found that 15 percent of the suggestions from the … continue reading
It’s been two years since Facebook announced its brain-computer interface (BCI) program, and the company finally has an update it is ready to share. Through a sponsored research initiative with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), researchers have been able to decode spoken words and phrases in real time from the brain signals that … continue reading
