One of my favorite characters in the movie Deadpool 2 was Domino. In one scene, she came in for an interview and was asked about her superhero qualifications. She said, “I’m lucky. Everything just usually works out for me.” Turns out she really was lucky, but what about you? Are you lucky? We all […]
For financial institutions, digital transformation is no longer a priority—it’s an imperative for success. The pandemic, rising customer expectations, financial technology disruptors, cybercrimes, open banking, and the rise of new technologies have challenged the status quo of traditional financial services. Financial services institutions (FSIs) are under pressure to reimagine financial customer services and products. […]
NetApp and NVIDIA are bringing to market a new integrated solution that’s based on the field-proven NetApp® ONTAP® AI reference architecture. You can now deploy the industry’s most powerful and innovative solution to enhance the productivity of your data scientists and data engineers and their impact on your business. You see, building infrastructure that […]
2020 was a pivotal year for automotive manufacturers. As the year began, they had to balance the challenges of digitally transforming their IT and operational technology (OT) approaches with the need to respond to many factors. Considerations included the supplier, ecosystem, and environmental pressures created by the connected, autonomous, shared, and electrified (CASE) vehicle revolution. […]
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent. —Ronnie Hawkins I’m fortunate to have come into “tech” after a 15-year stint in the wine business. I managed wine programs for several restaurants during my engineering studies and then spent a decade selling wine and […]
While writing this article I found myself reflecting on the state of IT when I started at NetApp in 2012. The world was a different place. GCE and Azure were facing an uphill battle against incumbent AWS, we were talking about OpenStack for private cloud, and Siri was still in beta. However, even though 2012 […]
We’ve improved the NetApp® StorageGRID® SG6060 appliances to make them larger and more reliable and flexible. Before the release of the NetApp StorageGRID 11.4 software, storage capacity expansions that used StorageGRID appliances required adding more appliance nodes, scaling out to increase the overall storage capacity of a StorageGRID system. With the introduction of […]
Anyone involved with research in healthcare and life science knows that the funding model often has unintended consequences. In academia as well as in industry, a researcher or principal investigator (PI) writes a grant proposal describing a project and explaining why they need money for it. If the grant is approved, the PI receives funding […]
Cisco and NetApp celebrated the 10-year anniversary of FlexPod® in 2020. We’re excited to kick off the next decade of collaboration by announcing the Tech Preview of NetApp® ONTAP® integration with Cisco Intersight. The Tech Preview starts in February 2021 with participation from customers and partners worldwide. The integration brings the full value and […]
Ransomware is a growing problem for IT organizations, in several ways. In fact, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just released an advisory specifically about cybercriminals targeting the public health sector with hacking and ransomware variants such as Ryuk. Organizations cannot afford to ignore this. Deploying tools to detect and recover from attacks can introduce new […]
Healthcare suffers from a data silo problem. It’s in no way a unique problem—silos are everywhere in IT. But it’s still worth examining given the negative repercussions silos have for patients and providers alike. In a typical healthcare-delivery organization such as a hospital, an urgent-care facility, an imaging center, an ambulatory surgery center, or a […]
Conversational artificial intelligence is revolutionizing business operations in every industry with applications like virtual agents, chatbots, and assistants. A conversational AI system engages in humanlike dialog, understands context, and offers intelligent responses by recognizing speech and text, understanding intent, deciphering language, and responding in a way that mimics human conversation. However, these AI models can […]