John Lewis Partnership goes Google Cloud-first to better target customers
A new data platform will help to combine John Lewis and Waitrose data, and provide a single view of the customer.
Archive: Infrastructure
Just Eat orders Google Cloud Platform for its data needs - ditches AWS
Just Eat selected GCP over AWS and Azure for scale, speed and insights from data – and it’s now reaping the benefits
Dreamforce 2019 - Salesforce refines Customer 360, partners with AWS on open data
Salesforce builds out its customer data management capabilities and teams up with AWS and Genesys on an open spec for data exchange
Cloud infrastructure isn’t created equal - many factors affect network performance to, from different providers
Pivoting off a detailed report of cloud network performance and some detailed recommendations.
Look east as the IT center of gravity shifts
Some thoughts, following on from a long Q&A session with one of Huawei’s rotating Chairmen in Shenzhen, China recently.
VMworld Barcelona - a lock-in myth debunked as cloud management moves up the layers of abstraction
Customers can avoid more arduous lock-in, while more abstracted development approaches will help to keep open the doors that have slammed shut in many a user’s face.
New Relic CEO Lew Cirne - programmability will be a competitive differentiator, but it will take time
Will programmability be a competitive differentiator for New Relic as CEO Lew Cirne believes? There are positive signs...
How NetApp exemplifies the transition of IT vendors from equipment suppliers to service providers
Drilling down into the cloud services model with NetApp.
Scotland’s National Library catalogs value from object storage
Object storage tech is preserving digital assets for future generations.
Why you should care about ultra-wideband - fine-grained location sensing isn’t just for lost luggage
What is ultra-wideband and why should you care anyway? Spoiler - there's an Apple angle...
DataOps challenge - the complicated art of making things simple
Variations on Dolly Parton - making things simple is pretty complicated.
Huawei Connect - showing off the building blocks to make AI a working reality
It is one thing to have grand ideas of how things might be done, but it needs building blocks to make it happen. Huawei has some available and more to come.
Huawei Connect - the end of an era, the start of another?
'Business computing is dead; long live business computing’ might just be the fanciful way to describe the notion that we stand on the cusp of the demise of one stage in computing development and the real birth – as an identifiable entity – of the next stage.