According to a recent press release, “Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) today unveiled Observer 17.5, the latest release of the platform recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s Network Performance Management and Diagnostics (NPMD) Magic Quadrant. Observer 17.5 replaces the plethora of detailed KPIs provided to network engineers with a single outcome-focused End-User Experience Score to dramatically […]
Role of Containers in the Enterprise Data Center
Click to learn more about author Sushil Kumar. The core value of the use of containers lies in the fact that it enables an application-centric computing paradigm by unshackling applications from the underlying infrastructure. Containers should now be seen as something more than a tool to make developers more agile and productive. Container Hype and Confusion […]
Dynamic Duo – Self-service BI and Data Preparation
Click here to learn more about author Jon Pilkington. The self-service Business Intelligence (BI) trend that has been sweeping the corporate world isn’t going away anytime soon. Hyper-competitive industries where time-to-decision is critical have been the early adopters of self-service BI tools. The financial services, retail and healthcare/life science markets are leading the way. But […]
The Knowledge Representation Corner: Procedural vs. Declarative
Click to learn more about author Adam Pease. Programmers that are new to ontology may be prone to think that any tool or language can be used to represent terms, definitions, and facts about the world. After all, as programmers, we’re used to solving problems in code and know that whether we use Perl, C++, Java, […]
Big Data: The IT / Business Divide
by Angela Guess Mary Shacklett recently wrote in TechRepublic, “When IT deals with big data, the primary arena for it is… large servers that are parallel processing in a Hadoop environment. Thankfully for the company at large, IT also focuses on reliability, security, governance, failover, and performance of data and apps—because if it didn’t, there […]