Cynthia Harvey

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more commonplace, one of the most visible results is the proliferation of chatbots. Visit any website, and the chances are good that you will have the opportunity to interact with a bot that can answer your questions and attempt to sell you products and services. In order to serve this […]

The phrase “business intelligence” has meant a lot of different things over the decades it has been in use. In general, it refers to the practice of analyzing data related to a business’s operations. Today, business intelligence companies of all sizes rely heavily on software to help them perform that analysis, and most modern business […]

Product lifecycle management software, often called PLM software, plays a core role in business today. For organizations with complicated or advanced product portfolios, tracking the various aspects of the design, manufacture and delivery process is challenging. This is where PLM software comes in. Product lifecycle management software does exactly what the name suggests — it […]

Today’s large enterprises rely heavily on cloud computing. They have complex multicloud environments that pose unique management challenges. Increasingly, organizations are turning to cloud management platforms (CMPs) to help them manage that complexity. A typical CMP incorporates a host of different capabilities behind the proverbial “single pane of glass.” For example, most have some provisioning, […]

Today, most enterprises are using multiple public cloud and private clouds as part of their cloud deployment. As a result, more and more of them are looking for multicloud management tools that can help them monitor, govern and optimize their cloud usage. According to the RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report, 84 percent of […]

As enterprises embrace digital transformation in the cloud computing era, business leaders increasingly hope to position their products as “platforms” or “ecosystems” that customers and partners can use to build their own businesses. Often that means creating and releasing application programming interfaces, or APIs. Which of course require API management solutions – a growing sector. […]

No small business is so small that it doesn’t need backup protection using cloud computing. And for most SMBs, a cloud-based backup service using a public cloud provider offers an ideal combination of security and convenience. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated backup is scalable, flexible […]

Clearly, cloud computing plays a critical role in backup for enterprises. Today’s enterprises face the daily risk of ransomware, cyberattacks and natural disasters — as well as the common occurrence of accidentally deleted files. As a result, a robust cloud backup procedure is a must. And with the competitive prices from many cloud companies, online […]

Since before the dawn of the computer age, scientists have been captivated by the idea of creating machines that could behave like humans. But only in the last decade has technology enabled some forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to become a reality. Interest in putting AI to work has skyrocketed, with burgeoning array of AI […]

At the simplest level, IT professionals use the phrase “enterprise architecture” to describe the overall blueprint for a large organization’s IT systems. For example, they might say, “Our company’s enterprise architecture is multicloud (or hybrid cloud, private cloud or public cloud).” Some organizations have a slightly more formal approach to the concept. For them, enterprise […]