
Lessons in User Engagement From Game Development
Quarantine measures forced most of the world to stay physically distant — a shift that has forever changed consumer behaviors, and especially how humans interact and spend their free time. A clear change over the past year was the rapid boom of gaming, which saw a massive increase in both console and mobile games — […]

Dear Management: Letter to DevOps Leaders
My occasional reminder that “Change is good, but predictability is better,” is in the form of a message to DevOps upper management. I thought it would be fun to write, and would offer a different perspective and drive than normal. Hope you enjoy! Dear Management, Too much of anything is bad. No matter the topic, […]

Former Google Energy CTO Joins AI Startup Olea Edge Analytics
AUSTIN, Texas—May 4, 2021—Olea Edge Analytics, an intelligent edge computing platform for the water utility industry, today announced the addition of Ben Wilson as Chief Operating Officer. Wilson, the former Chief Technology Officer – Energy at Google, will build out Olea Edge Analytics’ growing technology team and guide the technical development of new products. Wilson […]

Zammo.ai Revolutionizes Customer Engagement for Businesses with the Introduction of the World’s First No-Code, Cross-Platform Conversational AI Solution
Transformative voice-first technology works across voice assistants, IVR/telephony, and chatbots, accelerating business transition to and adoption of the voice economy SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 4, 2021 – Zammo.ai, the company accelerating the transition to the voice economy, announced today the world’s only no-code, conversational AI platform. The Zammo conversational AI platform allows businesses to […]

Datadobi Streamlines and Accelerates Proximus Group’s Data Storage Infrastructure Transformation
Premier Provider of Telephony, Internet, Television, and Network-Based ICT Services Deploys DobiMigrate to Move Everything from Home Directories to Business Operations and Customer Relations Data onto Dell EMC Isilon Leuven, Belgium, May 4, 2021 – Datadobi, a global leader in unstructured data management software, today announced Proximus Group, a premier provider of telephony, internet, television, […]

DevOps Practices Gap Assessment
Using DevOps to continuously deliver software has proven value for organizations that are on a path towards digital transformation and continuous improvement. To get the maximum value from DevOps, it is important to use recommended best practices, inclusive of people, processes and technologies. A gap assessment is a great way to efficiently evaluate an organization’s […]

Dgraph Labs Partners With Capventis To Advance Digital Transformation Through Graph Database Integration
Industry Partnership Increases Rollout of Dgraph’s Graph Database Technology Through Capventis’ Expansive Global Network PALO ALTO, Calif. and DUBLIN – April 29, 2021 – Dgraph Labs (“Dgraph”), the #1 open source graph database, today announced its partnership with UK-based integration and analytics consulting company Capventis to expand the data unification of global brands. The partnership […]

Appen Leads Industry in Creating AI That Works for Everyone
Appen’s range of AI projects and diverse global contractor network ensure unbiased AI data for fair and equitable AI projects SAN FRANCISCO — April 29, 2021 — Appen Limited (ASX:APX), the leading provider of high-quality training data for organizations that build effective AI systems at scale, is enabling organizations to launch, update and operate unbiased AI models through a range of projects and partnerships. With support from the company’s global crowd of data annotation specialists that’s more than a million […]

Memfault’s Device Observability Platform Now Available for Android and Microcontroller-Based Devices with Free Trial
Cloud platform empowers embedded developers to quickly monitor, debug, and update connected devices at scale San Francisco, CA, April 29, 2021 — Memfault, the provider of the first cloud-based platform for connected device monitoring, updating, and debugging, today launched a free self-service portal giving embedded developers instant access to Memfault across Android OS devices or […]

Vectra AI Raises $130 Million led by Blackstone Growth (BXG)
Investment will fuel research and development to secure the cloud using AI-driven threat detection and response and global expansion Vectra AI, a leader in threat detection and response today announced a $130 million round of funding led by funds managed by Blackstone Growth (BXG, “Blackstone Growth”). The investment will help fuel Vectra’s continued growth through platform […]

ScaleOut Software Announces Geospatial Mapping for its ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service™
Users can bring analytics to life with visualizations that provide richer dynamic context and situational awareness BELLEVUE, Wash – April 27, 2021 – ScaleOut Software today released new visualization capabilities for its Azure hosted ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service™ and companion, on-premises streaming analytics platform. This innovative streaming analytics approach enables organizations to separately process and analyze incoming streaming data […]

Acorio Study: Digital Transformation Topples Service Management as Top Business Priority
The new executive summary from Acorio’s third annual ServiceNow Insights Survey examines the state of Digital Transformation and the lasting impact of COVID-19 on strategic technology strategy April 27, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As ServiceNow establishes enterprise dominance in a bid to become the “platform of platforms”, digital transformation has overtaken service […]

Nexthink Advances Digital Employee Experience Management with Deep Intelligence for Web Applications
With Nexthink’s latest innovation, end-user computing teams gain transaction-level observability and sentiment data for every web application from the employee perspective Lausanne / Boston — April 27, 2021 – Nexthink, the leader in Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management software, today announced it is extending end-to-end experience visibility to the application transaction level with its new […]

Acorio Study: Digital Transformation Topples Service Management as Top Business Priority
The new executive summary from Acorio’s third annual ServiceNow Insights Survey examines the state of Digital Transformation and the lasting impact of COVID-19 on strategic technology strategy BOSTON, Mass., April 27, 2021__As ServiceNow establishes enterprise dominance in a bid to become the “platform of platforms”, digital transformation has overtaken service management as the top […]

InterVision Recognized as a 2020 Partner of the Year by Juniper Networks
Annual Awards Program Recognizes Top Partners in Sales, Customer Service, Technology and Service Specialization Santa Clara, Calif. and St. Louis, Mo., – April 19, 2021 – InterVision, a leading IT strategic service provider and Premier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), announced today that it was recognized as a Partner […]

EY announces the launch of IBM TechHub@EY to strengthen capabilities in IBM hybrid cloud technologies and help accelerate client digital transformation
IBM TechHub@EY to drive innovation and solution development on IBM Cloud, powered by AI technology Provides single point-of-contact technology support for all EY client-facing teams worldwide Expands EY people’s skills and certifications in IBM technologies EY today announces the launch of its IBM TechHub@EY, a global, decentralized network of EY practitioners dedicated to developing EY […]

Survey Shows Acceleration of Centralized IT Management
An OpsRamp survey published this week suggests large enterprises are looking to finally unify IT management at at time when it is becoming increasingly complex. OpsRamp, a provider of an IT management platform based on machine learning algorithms, polled 132 IT operations directors working for organizations in the U.S. with more than 500 employees that […]

How the DevOps Skill Journey Fosters a Learning Culture
Human skills, among others, have always been important; now more than ever. Empathy, diversity, creativity, personal commitment have been put to the test. The increase in remote work tends to challenge individuals in unique ways, and these human skills are becoming critical. Top 5 Skill Domains for 2021 This year, 69% of respondents to the […]

The Human Side of DevOps – Upskilling for the Digital Transformation
Roundtable 8: DevOps is all about people, process and tools. People, or humans, are critical to DevOps success. Just as we invest in tools and build processes, software leaders recognize it is vital to invest in DevOps skills for their people and software teams. AWS Builder Community Hub

The Evolution of the Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC)
The Assessment of DevOps Capabilities (ADOC) is crowdsourced, vendor-neutral and designed for individuals, teams and organizations who want to baseline their current DevOps state, identify the next target state, gain insights into how to improve their organization and team capabilities and measure and accelerate continuous improvement during their DevOps journey. The assessment models five DevOps […]

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IDC Tech Spotlight: Making Open Source Work for You: Achieving Optimum Value, Security, and Productivity
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Tencent Cloud Makes Metrics and Data Monitoring More Efficient Through Integration With Easy-To-Use Grafana
Tencent Cloud Monitor Grafana App enables users safe and secure shared access HONG KONG, April 19, 2021 – Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of Tencent, today announced that it has joined forces with Grafana Labs, the company behind the open and composable observability platform built around the Grafana open source technology for dashboards and visualization, […]