Automation isn’t new to IT, but autonomous systems are, which is why IT leaders and professionals have to think about the value they’re delivering, again.
Archives for 2019
Saudi oil exports to run as normal from stocks this week: source
Saudi Arabia’s oil exports will continue as normal this week as the kingdom taps into stocks from its large storage facilities, an industry source briefed on the developments told Reuters on Sunday.
Instant View: Reactions to attack on Saudi oil facilities
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group on Saturday attacked two plants at the Abqaiq plant, the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, in a strike that could impact about 5 million barrels per day of crude production – close to half of the kingdom’s output or 5% of global oil supply.
Jagadish Venkatraman on LinkedIn’s Journey to Samza 1.0
At the recent ApacheCon North America, Jagadish Venkatraman spoke about how LinkedIn developed Apache Samza 1.0 to handle stream processing at scale. He described LinkedIn’s use cases involving trillions of events and petabytes of data, then highlighted the features added for the 1.0 release, including: stateful processing, high-level APIs, and a flexible deployment model. By […]
Microsoft’s Brad Smith: Tech companies won’t wait for U.S. to act on social media laws
Microsoft Corp President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said on Friday that U.S. tech companies will change how they moderate online platforms in response to new laws from foreign governments, regardless of whether U.S. lawmakers take action.
ApacheCon 2019 Keynote: Google Cloud Enhances Big-Data Processing with Kubernetes
At ApacheCon North America, Christopher Crosbie gave a keynote talk title “Yet Another Resource Negotiator for Big Data? How Google Cloud is enhancing data lake processing with Kubernetes.” He highlighted Google’s efforts to make Apache big-data software “cloud native” by developing open-source Kubernetes Operators to provide control planes for running Apache software in a Kubernetes […]
Cloudera Sets Agenda for Next Era Cloud Data Analytics
As the dust clears from HPE’s acquisition of MapR in the climax of the Hadoop story, Cloudera sets out the plan for an era of big data platforms in the cloud.
Azure Media Services’ new AI-powered innovation
Animated character recognition, multilingual speech transcription and more now available At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The media industry exemplifies this mission. We live in an age where more content is being created and consumed in more ways and on more devices than ever. […]
British Airways cancels flights on September 27 due to strike
British Airways said on Thursday it is cancelling some flights scheduled for Sept. 27 when its pilots are due to hold another strike.
FASB Proposes Debt Guidance
The FASB proposes debt guidance for public comment. This proposal is intended to improve guidance used to determine whether debt should be classified as a current or noncurrent liability in a classified balance sheet. Stakeholders are encouraged to review and comment on the proposed ASU by October 28, 2019. In January 2017, the FASB proposed debt guidance, which contained […]