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February 2022

Top 5 Interview Questions to Ask DevOps Candidates in 2022

DevOps plays a critical role in today’s business landscape, enabling organizations to automate and innovate swiftly at a time when digital transformation projects put a premium on those capabilities. The benefits of DevOps, though, can only be relied on when related security risk mitigation is considered and embedded into DevOps processes.

Network Management In The Age Of AI

Change is critical to growth. Especially if you’re running a business in today’s volatile market. The silver lining is that we are at the peak of innovation, moving forward from a decade filled with disruptions, catalysing transformations. Over the years, enterprise IT has evolved to play a more significant role in business. Innovation, macro-economic factors, unexpected disruptions, and other internal and external factors have caused the change.

Top 10 most important actions to ensure successful digital transformation

Digital Transformation is, nowadays, a buzzing world in industry, which everybody wants to utilize and apply in their business. Nevertheless, it is also starting to be a major cause of confusion, empty promises and big words with no real impact on business performance. Why is there such an extreme dichotomy in the most important enabler for our Future Digital Energy Systems? According to McKinsey, Deloitte and many more consulting companies, over 70% of digital transformation initiatives have failed.

How AIOps Can Help Retailers Improve the Digital Experience

More than 2.14 billion global consumers are expected to buy goods and services online in 2021, according to Statista. That is up 29% from 1.66 billion digital customers just six years ago. This rapid change in shopping habits is driving retailers’ digital transformations and ever more advanced technologies. Many retailers have begun automating back office functions like claims processing, accounting and inventory management.

10 Best Machine Learning Algorithms

Though we’re living through a time of extraordinary innovation in GPU-accelerated machine learning, the latest research papers frequently (and prominently) feature algorithms that are decades, in certain cases 70 years old. Some might contend that many of these older methods fall into the camp of ‘statistical analysis’ rather than machine learning, and prefer to date the advent of the sector back only so far as 1957, with the invention of the Perceptron.

Why You Shouldn't Blame Artificial Intelligence for Poor Recruiting Processes

A few stories have emerged lately about how companies are having difficulty hiring enough people to fill key positions. These articles allege that automated talent acquisition (TA) or Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) reject millions of candidates solely due to minor flaws in their applications such as gaps in their work histories, failing to meet a long list of exacting job requirements, or failing to use the language of the job description on their resume.

Digital Transformation Is Necessary, Even For The Most Traditional Industries

For many traditional, labor-intensive industries, the rapid digitalization of the world and the professional sphere is a situation that is difficult to embrace but one we must face. Digital transformation is usually a long and tough process. It requires a clear strategic vision, open-minded employees who are ready for change and sufficient digital-savvy workers in the company.

Role Of Big Data In Fintech Industry

In today’s digital realm, businesses are in a race to compete with each other to improve their customer experience. Now the traditional financial system is replaced with an online banking system where all types of financial transactions are performed online. With technological improvements, a growing number of fintech platforms are turning to data analytics to better understand customer behavior and industry trends.

Why Edge Computing Will Overtake the Cloud

Compared to the previous generation, today’s generation of startups are increasingly cloud-centric. The previous generation of dotcoms had to suffer the economics and complexities of deploying, managing, and scaling their own servers, networks, and data centers. In contrast, today’s generation grew up in the just-in-time, pay-for-what-you-need, and scale-up-on-demand world that is cloud native.

The Impact of Cloud Computing on Management

The rapid growth of the marketplace and increasing competition require companies to make significant changes in the way they offer services and products. Companies that wish to remain competitive must keep an eye on technology development and adapt to any new technology if it becomes available. Each new cloud service provider in cloud computing contributes fundamentally to promoting growth and competition at the same time.

Expert believes machine learning can improve after failing for Covid

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) systems have long been touted as the future of medicine. A patient can walk into a doctors office, and after a quick scan discover their risk for a variety of diseases, and be given information on how to prevent them from occurring. Patients suffering from diseases like cancer can have treatment decisions made by an AI that can optimize care and maximize likelihood of survival.

Interoperability a long way off as enterprises target multicloud

Clouds remain segmented, leaving businesses little recourse for how to best navigate complexity. The multicloud movement has flavors to it. Intentional or accidental, an enterprise can blend a kaleidoscope of infrastructure services with existing software tools. IaaS requirements can tag along with SaaS adoption, easily creating a multicloud environment before technology teams can consider the sprawl.

Five Key Steps for Database Security in the Cloud Age

As business has become more digital, data has become the most valuable asset of many organizations. But protecting that data has also become much more compli­cated as organizations increasingly migrate it to a mix of public and private cloud infra­structures, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud.

Five Ways To Reduce Your Cloud Security Blast Radius

It takes only a glance at the daily headlines to see that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated methods to breach cloud defenses and access sensitive data. The complexity of cloud frameworks makes it extraordinarily difficult to detect nefarious activities. In many cases, attackers lurk in systems for weeks or months before pulling the trigger.

Harnessing The Power Of Digital Transformation Will Be Key To Success For Quality-Focused Organizations In 2022

While digital transformation has been in manufacturers’ playbooks for the past few years, the effects of the pandemic, including supply chain disruption and worker shortages, will make it a business necessity in 2022.

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Just How Important Is Your Integration Infrastructure?

Most companies take their integration infrastructure for granted. I'm talking about middleware such as IBM MQ, Kafka, Solace, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ. These form the basis of most enterprise-level businesses. One of our electronic manufacturing customers was building products worth $40K per minute. A failure in one of the factory floor's automated systems brought manufacturing operations to a complete halt.

How Do You Manage A Multi-Platform Infrastructure Quickly and Efficiently?

Today, I would like to simplify the technical advantage that Nastel Technologies offers its clients. In a nutshell, Nastel is the leader in i2M (Integration Infrastructure Management) by managing a multi-middleware-platform infrastructure (MQ, Tibco, Kafka, Solace, …) from one interface.

Five Fintech Predictions For 2022

2021 saw several ongoing trends in financial technology, or “fintech,” accelerate, as well as completely novel developments burst onto the stage. What will 2022 hold? Here are five predictions from my vantage point: Cybersecurity will be paramount. Modern-day hackers are going to continue to be aggressive in exploiting every avenue and opening in disrupting commerce and operations. The financial industry is on the front lines of cyberattacks with an extraordinary amount of exposure.