Serverless in the Enterprise: Building Stateful Applications

Cloud native applications allow enterprises to design, build, deploy and manage monolithic applications in more agile, nimble ways. These applications accelerate business value while driving greater operational efficiencies and cost savings through containers, a pay-as-you-go model, and a distributed runtime. However, current serverless implementations (namely, Function-as-a-Service, or FaaS for short) […]

8 Tips for Building An Effective AI System Infrastructure

ai trends By Andy Thurai, Emerging Technology Strategist, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure If you are a strategist, or a CIO, or a decision maker for your enterprise AI systems, the following octet of AI antidotes might help cure your AI nervousness. With the data sphere growth catapulting from the current 16.1 […]

IoT, Cloud, API predictions for 2016

This article was originally published on DataInformed. Co-authored with Mac Devine of IBM. The year 2016 will be exciting in terms of applied technologies. We see a lot of technologies maturing and moving from lab exercises to real-world business technologies that solve real-life customer problems – especially in the areas of digital […]

Secure IoT in the enterprise: Finding a model that works

VENTURE BEAT These days, when you hear about the Internet of things, it’s usually about body sensors, such as Fitbit, or smart home sensors. But while consumers are just now beginning to be exposed to these sensors, they already exist extensively in the enterprise. Industrial-grade sensors are being used in energy, retail, manufacturing, […]

A Proud Storytelling Moment: Know Your Elevator Pitches

IoT, API, Big Data, Mobile, SOA, Cloud & Security Blog Twitter: @AndyThurai This story originally featured on Innovation Insights @ Wired magazine. The year was 2002. Right after 9/11 everyone was hurting, especially the telco sector got almost wiped out – Nortel, Lucent, Alcatel, Avaya, Worldcom, MCI, and the list goes on. Some […]

API management —Any way you want it!

GIGAOM Enterprises are building an API First strategy to keep up with their customer needs, and provide resources and services that go beyond the confines of enterprise. With this shift to using APIs as an extension of their enterprise IT, the key challenge still remains choosing the right deployment model. Even […]

Why we need more control over where our sensitive data is stored, analyzed and processed

Venture Beat Image Credit: Shutterstock Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer brandingDownload eBook Andy Thurai is chief architect and CTO of Intel App security and Big Data (@AndyThurai). David Houlding is privacy strategist at Intel (@DavidHoulding). These days, everyone seems to want our personal […]

Don’t be stupid, use (cloud) protection!

PANDO No matter how you feel about the NSA and the wide net it casts in surveilling people, one thing is certain: All this talk about spying on Americans and foreigners is having an effect on some businesses, namely American cloud companies. It’s also afforded opportunities to cloud companies based […]

Protecting one’s data in the cloud, post Snowden

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