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by Alessandro Perilli, General Manager, Cloud Management Strategy, Red Hat Source: Red Hat. Perilli. Without public cloud computing, we wouldn't be able to face the pandemic in the way we are. On-premise data centres have never scaled this fast, and not even the most rigorous capacity planning in the world would have forecast the resource consumption we face today. News outlets covering the outbreaks would have not been able to cope with an entire planet constantly refreshing the home page in the hope of reading good news (that’s what I do). Hospitals and research facilities publishing dashboards full of virus-spread statistics would not have been able to acquire the massive datasets they have as fast as they did. Videoconferencing and streaming platforms wouldn’t be able to serve, exceptionally so far, the enormous amount of the human workforce suddenly forced to work from home. And what is public cloud computing in the end? An astonishing, unprecedented, disciplined, met...

TIBCO Software , a global enterprise data specialist, has announced that TIBCO Spotfire and TIBCO Data Science now support Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. The announcement demonstrates the strengthening relationship between TIBCO and Microsoft to deliver solutions to organisations looking to accelerate their digital business transformation. The partnership means that businesses can use visual analytics and data science to make sense of sensor data and log data at the edge, including the ability to detect anomalies within reams of data and alert case managers to take preventive actions. TIBCO's solutions, which empower customers to connect, unify, and confidently predict business outcomes, extend Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services to analyse multivariate anomalies and add root-cause analysis by using input from Azure 's Key Phrase Extraction cognitive skill to render decisions and automate actions like anomaly detection. “Increasingly, customers performing predi...

SMEs and microenterprises* undergoing forced isolation measures and restrictions during the Circuit Breaker (lockdown) period have turned to the use of new technologies – primarily in remote working, meetings and collaboration – in their business processes, revealed SGTech after surveying companies which attended the tech association’s Isolation Economy webinars in April. A total of 235 companies responded to the survey, with SMEs and microenterprises representing 92% of participants. The survey polled responses from participants based on their experience during the first three weeks of the Circuit Breaker (lockdown) from April 7 to April 27, 2020. Among the industries represented, 20% came from IT and related services, 13% were in manufacturing, 12% from the wholesale trade and 11% in retail. Two-thirds of respondents are business owners or directors of their respective firms. In terms of working from home (WFH) arrangements, 37% of SMEs and microenterprises said they did not al...