At the opening of MongoDB World 2018, the NoSQL database provider made a number of announcements that enhance its backend and management capabilities.
This week - Another no-vacation-for-you surprise as Workday buys Adaptive Insights. The B2B buyer is changing faster than sales can keep up, and Microsoft's Github acquisition provokes debate - and a big whiff.
This week - AI isn't intelligent until it gets to causality. Sapphire Now begins with CRM swagger - bring on the analysis. Plus: Microsoft gets Github, but why? Your whiffs include a tour of Twitter support dystopia via my pals at Intuit.
A competent keynote with few slip ups but no real depth and no real surprises.
Sapphire Now 2018 will only go one of two ways: success or disaster. Despite the significant potential to be a winner, I don't see much middle ground. Here's what you should look out for.
My last talk with DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth left us with unfinished business. We address that by poking holes in disruption infatuation. Bosworth makes his case for a different model: transformative cloud apps powered by a hybrid cloud.
The New York Times had been running its own data centers, but has since shifted to AWS and Google Cloud, prompting a cloud-native approach.
Speaking at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen this week, Adidas explains how the retail company ended up using Kubernetes at scale.
Application performance management tools are helping online food delivery service Just Eat stay alert to any infrastructure issues that could leave customers hungry.
Open source technologies are everywhere but in the banking sector, firms face perceptual and skills issues.
In the first of a two part interview with SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin, AI hype and sensationalism comes under scrutiny.
Startup growth is never a bad thing - but the strain it puts on an IT team is real. Jason Wu of AdStage told me how AdStage addressed its data scale issues, and why Apache Cassandra-as-a-Database service was the right choice.
Several candid meetings at SAP TechEd Barcelona brought clarity to SAP's blockchain direction. Here's what I learned from SAPs Torsten Zube - and my analysis of SAP's approach.