Making the Business Case for Edge Computing

Understanding how and where edge computing fits into an organization’s. It wasn’t that long ago when edge computing was considered a futuristic, forward-looking concept that was interesting to contemplate — yet offered no real-world benefit to the enterprise.

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BrandPost: Designed to Inspire: How Digital is Powering Seamless Customer Experiences

The year 2020 upended retail businesses more than any other time in recent history, as people shifted their entire lives (and buying habits) online in response to COVID-19. At Crate & Barrel, where online sales already accounted for more than half of our business, we’ve seen online sales jump more than 40% since the start of the pandemic.

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Fuel retail in the age of new mobility

Over the past decade, fuel retail has been one of the more resilient segments in the oil and gas industry. The growth of both out-of-home consumption and small-format retail has enabled forecourts to capture significant incremental value from convenience retail and other nonfuel retail (NFR) business.

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IoT gateway

An internet of things (IoT) gateway is a physical device or software program that serves as the connection point between the cloud and controllers , sensors and intelligent devices. All data moving between IoT devices and the cloud passes through an IoT gateway, which can be either a dedicated hardware appliance or software program.

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The Dynamic Duo of the IoT – Combining Cloud & Edge Processing Gives the Best of Both Worlds

Claudia Jarrett, US Country Manager | EU Automation Bert and Ernie, Thelma and Louise, even Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: sometimes opposites attract. This old phrase not only rings true in pop culture, but in industrial data processing, too.Here, Claudia Jarrett, US country manager at industrial automation parts-supplier, EU Automation, explains how manufacturers can get the most value out of cloud and edge data servers — by bringing them together

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3 Digital Priorities for Software Engineering Leaders

Organizations everywhere are accelerating their initiatives to use data and technology to optimize and transform business and operating models. The specific objectives of this digital acceleration depend on your organization’s strategies and business — and it is those goals that will drive the resulting mandate for IT leaders, including software engineering leaders.

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New solutions for Oracle WebLogic on Azure Virtual Machines

We are announcing a major release for Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) on Azure Virtual Machines. The release is jointly developed with the WebLogic team as part of a broad-ranging partnership between Microsoft and Oracle. Software available under the partnership includes Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Database, as well as interoperability between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Azure.

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Simplify data integration pipeline development using AWS Glue custom blueprints

Data engineers need a way to enable non-data engineers like business analysts, data analysts, and data scientists to operate using self-service methods by abstracting the complexity of pipeline development. In this post, we discuss AWS Glue custom blueprints, which offer a framework for you to build and share reusable AWS Glue workflows.

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