Leon Yen

This compares three popular DevOps configuration tools side by side on features, strengths and weaknesses, and price.

Organizations continue to face a critical decision when it comes to their IT infrastructure: fully embrace the cloud, or adopt an on-premises model? The question remains pertinent despite the fact that the cloud has been around for almost two decades now. This article will provide deeper context to this question with the goal of helping […]

What is automation and how can it be used in the workplace?

Though it may not be readily apparent, today’s major cities and metropolitan regions are highly connected and data-driven. Upon closer inspection, a myriad of monitoring devices and sensors can be seen providing a constant stream of operational data to municipal systems. And while city-wide monitoring may not be a new phenomenon, the mass proliferation of […]

A quick trip to the local supermarket, big box store, or comparable brick-and-mortar establishment will reveal how pervasive the Internet of Things (IoT) has become in retail. However, self-checkout kiosks and hyper-personalized in-aisle advertising displays are just a small sampling of the current customer-facing retail IoT innovations. Behind the scenes, in the stock rooms, warehouses, […]

The domain of finance has long been highly active in artificial intelligence (AI) research and implementation. In fact, the financial sector was already involved in developing innovations around Bayesian statistics, a staple of machine learning, as early as the 1960s. These seminal use cases were based around monitoring stock markets and making predictions for investors. […]

Out of all the industries that stand to benefit from artificial intelligence (AI), health care is arguably the most universally crucial and relevant. The recent accelerated COVID-19 vaccine development efforts are just a few examples of how AI-driven medical innovations can be critical to everyone’s well-being. That said, drug discovery is just one of the […]

The 2020 SolarWinds cyber attack is widely considered one of the worst security incidents in recent years and — after the smoke clears (investigations are still ongoing) — will likely take the prize for the biggest cloud security failure in history. With Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, NATO, the U.K. government, the U.S. government, the European Parliament, […]

IT futurists have long predicted the eventual disappearance of the so-called perimeter, but the truth is that physical networks — and the solutions for securing them — are far from their last days. And while the cloud has heralded the arrival of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and software-defined networks (SDN), at the end of the day, these […]

At Oracle OpenWorld 2019, Larry Ellison made a pledge that his company would bring to market the world’s first autonomous cloud: databases, infrastructure, and other IT services bundled in an integrated cloud computing fabric. Of course, the outspoken CTO/co-founder of the world’s largest database company is also infamous for publicly dismissing cloud computing as a […]