ServiceNow’s Knowledge17 conference and expo featured a full creative developer track in the shape of the now much anticipated CreatorCon (See here for the amazing winners’ news) and also its dedicated Hackathon. Some 300 individuals, from a diverse set of professional backgrounds, enrolled for a day of service-centric creativity. As is typical with these events,…
Today we’re announcing general availability of AWS Lambda support for AWS X-Ray. As you may already know from Jeff’s GA POST, X-Ray is an AWS service for analyzing the execution and performance behavior of distributed applications. Traditional debugging methods don’t work so well for microservice based applications, in which there are multiple, independent components running…
May is Small Business Month. Dell is celebrating Small Business month with a 4-part small business series discussing hot trends in small business. Stay tuned for next week’s piece or view last week’s virtual reality piece. I work with businesses that are just getting started or just hitting a period of growth every day and…
On Friday, 12 May 2017, many organizations around the world reported they were victim to a devastating ransomware attack now widely known as “WannaCry”. As of Monday, 15 May 2017, there are over 200,000 reported WannaCry infections in over 150 countries. While ransomware attacks are relatively common, WannaCry is significantly more lethal because it has…
Several times each month, I speak to AWS customers at our Executive Briefing Center in Seattle. I describe our innovation process and talk about how the roadmap for each AWS offering is driven by customer requests and feedback. A good example of this is our work to make AWS a great home for SAP’s portfolio…
Just as Dell EMC World wraps, we’re gearing up for another big event – SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP’s largest global business technology event, in Orlando (FL), May 16-18, 2017. Dell EMC and SAP have built a strong relationship over nearly two decades, covering system design and delivery, and extensive services expertise at every level. With a…
The following is a guest post from Gary Mintchell the Founder and CEO at Manufacturing Connection. Mintchell is an expert in the Industrial Internet of Things and has followed the strategy, partner ecosystem and roadmap of Dell’s IoT Group since its inception in 2015. He has had deep dives on the topic with Dell’s IoT…
The Human Element Ignites Intelligent Automation ServiceNow has been hard at work across its software engineering departments in an effort to being new levels of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to the cloud services that contemporary businesses now depend upon. With firms in all verticals now looking for strategic direction in their IT Service Management…
It’s a long-running, but not really funny, joke that the best thing about being a woman at a tech conference is there’s never a line for the restroom. Men discovering lines for the restrooms at a tech conference. Welcome to our world for a visit. — Karen López (@datachick) May 10, 2017 But yesterday at…
I want you, dear reader, to stop and pay close attention. I’ve said it before, I will say it again: SDS and HCI architectural approaches are now ready for the majority of x86 workloads. There is a sustained space for external purpose built storage platforms (think SAN, NAS, Object appliances) for certain workloads (low in…