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Open Source Software has enabled innovative leaps in enterprise software and changed the way companies design, deploy, maintain and use software. Our host, Eric Kavanagh, is fond of saying, "bad code goes away" and this is even more apparent in the community mindshare environment of open source. Join us in today's episode of InsideAnalysis from Portland, Oregon as Kavanagh interviews open source i...

What, exactly, is ​FinTech, and why should you care? The simple answers: it's tech innovation in financial services, and it affects just about everyone on planet earth. The impact can be seen throughout the world of finance: transfers, fees, deposits, withdrawals. BitCoin is an excellent example of highly disruptive FinTech, and it makes most regulators edgy! What can be done about this revolution...

Bottlenecks and compatibility between software and operating systems and the massive amounts of data collected in today's serverless applications can cause serious concerns at scale. High performance saves money with second saved; However, getting a handle on this complexity can be the difference between success and failure.   Listen to Eric Kavanagh interview Ben Sigelman of LightStep and find ou...

The old normal is now gone. The new normal is multifaceted, multivariate, and most of all: multi-cloud! Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Rackspace, and even SAP are all touting their cloud platforms. What's the enterprise to do? Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to find out! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview David Linthicum of Deloitte, plus Eric Wright of Turbonomic, Dimitri Moraitis, Mist.io, and...

A premier showing of Black Panther and a blowout event for the World Wrestling Federation: common occurrences in Western culture, but in the Middle East? My, how times have changed! The new possibilities in this ancient land are vast and varied. Entrepreneurship is on the rise, and foreign investments are heating up. How can you get involved? Check out this special pilot episode of The World Matte...

The machines just keep learning. From smartphones to self-driving cars, the universe of intelligent mechanization keeps on rolling. We may be a long way off from the so-called "Singularity" – but the power embedded in today's most innovative machinery genuinely boggles the mind. What's the latest, and where is all of this going? Check out this episode of #InsideAnalysis to find out! Host @eric_kav...

When Hasso Plattner threw down the gauntlet more than a decade ago, many of the industry's other titans merely shrugged. An entire platform built on in-memory technology? Pshaw! Some of the major players eventually embraced the in-memory concept, but only in bits and pieces. The boldness of Plattner's vision, however, required a wholesale embrace of this technology as the foundation for tomorrow's...

Software development in the enterprise took a major leap forward in the last few years, as the concept of DevOps took the industry by storm. Developers started working directly with operations personnel, and the speed of innovation took a sharp turn for the better. In some ways, the vector of this change actually outpaced the ability of organizations to keep their data management processes up to s...

A common storyline in the news these days warns of Artificial Intelligence taking jobs away from hard-working people. A more realistic take is that AI increasingly augments professional activities. From sales and marketing to operations and even accounting, AI algorithms are tackling a variety of tasks, from mundane "administrivia" to the more compelling function of predictive analytics. Check out...

The cloud made its first presence known in the 1990s, but that was a long time ago, and far far away in terms of functionality. Companies like AOL, Excite and Yahoo! all offered basic services like email, and groups. Today, the power of cloud computing is genuinely mind-blowing. What do industrial-strength cloud service providers offer? Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to find out! Host Er...

Many organizations weigh the benefits and risks of data lakes versus data warehouses. The former can be vast but slow, while the latter requires great effort to achieve the desired speed. But these solutions are no longer mutually exclusive. A new kind of supercharged information architecture can deliver the best of both worlds, enabling the richness of data lake designs, along with the performanc...

The scalable compute power of the cloud has placed Machine Learning in the spotlight of what's now possible with Big Data. The evolution of cloud computing — with readily accessible and ever-increasing pools of resources such seemingly endless affordable cloud storage — has opened the door to new possibilities that would have been impossible both financially and technically to most individuals and...

First came the data warehouse, then the data lake. Open-source upstarts Cloudera and Hortonworks jumped on the data lake concept quickly, touting their mastery of Apache Hadoop as key to their ability to effectively build and maintain data lakes that provide business value. But a funny thing happened on the way to the digital forum: Cloud storage underwent a major metamorphosis, with major price-p...

What, exactly, is a modern data warehouse? How does it differ from a "traditional" data warehouse? Price? Performance? Architecture? Cloud-based? We'll discuss this and so much more on this episode of #InsideAnaysis! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview several expert guests on live radio via WFOY in Jacksonville; with replay on WCGO in Chicago. Guests include Neil Barton of Wherescape, Bill Payne o...

The modern enterprise has arrived. Agile, proactive and contextually aware, this cutting-edge organization takes advantage of the many recent innovations that have redefined the business world. Analytics, big data and cloud computing have coalesced to digitally transform practically every business process. And thanks to the remarkable power of in-memory computing, forward-looking companies can ope...

All roads lead to cloud: (almost) everyone knows that now. The benefits so outweigh the risks, that even the stodgiest enterprise architects now see the handwriting on the ceiling. While the rules are much different from the days of on-prem software, the reality is that smart cloud architects know their knowledge bar just went higher. How can you stay prepared? Check out this episode of #InsideAna...

World-famous luminary William Gibson once quipped: "The future is here already; it's just not evenly distributed." He may well have been thinking about artificial intelligence (AI), a long-maturing field of software development that has recently gone exponential with the value it provides. Indeed, AI now pervades the world of big business, and is kickstarting new business models, and whole new way...

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Serious decisions are increasingly being made by algorithms these days, but what does that really mean? And how does this affect issues like governance? compliance? strategic planning? Many of these decisions are serious ones that affect individuals and companies. New mandates such as the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) address this issue, but there's a lot of gray area. How can your orga...

With a market cap now in excess of $700 billion, cryptocurrencies must be taken seriously. While Bitcoin remains the leader, there are scores of competing coins these days. Meanwhile, governments the world over continue to ponder how to regulate this juggernaut. Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to learn from several experts, including Dr. Robin Bloor of Algebraix Data, Robert Allen of Coin...

You can't connect the dots if you don't collect the dots. So goes a long-standing mantra in detective work, as well as policing and surveillance in general. These days, a whole host of laws and regulations require that police departments and other organizations retain surveillance footage for longer than ever, especially for body cams and other equipment used in the pursuit and apprehension of sus...

The big data explosion that's reshaping the world of business will be especially disruptive for multimedia content. The video tsunami is already well underway, and is expected to balloon in the coming years. Cisco estimates that global video footage online will jump from 60 to nearly 90 exabytes per month from 2017 to 2018. A combination of AI & Cloud 2.0 will help solve this challenge.

We stand on the precipice of a healthcare revolution. Genomics and the spectrum of life sciences have reached a pinnacle in human history. Now, as a critical mass of information is analyzed at scale, a whole new world of potential begins. Check out this episode of #InsideAnalysis to learn from several prominent experts about imminent advances in healthcare. Guests include Evan Kirstel of UC Strate...

What happens when the cost of doing business drops significantly? Whole new business models are possible! That's happening right now thanks to a host of innovations in cloud computing. Bandwidth has increased substantially, and the price-performance of cloud storage has improved by an order of magnitude. The end result? Business is booming in the cloud! Check out this episode of #InsideAnalysis to...

With cloud computing now fully mature, many organizations are wondering how they'll manage to migrate from on-prem data centers. Hybrid cloud is certainly the answer, but the devil is always in the details. Companies that recognize the tremendous value-add of cloud-based services are already engaged in the big migration. But many companies are still in limbo, knowing that they need a strategy, but...