The Cognitive Enterprise is the next logical step in the digital transformation, said Marie Douglas, Vice President, Global Technology Service Providers (CSPs, MSPs) at IBM, in her CloudFest keynote. Customers are aware that now is the time to develop new applications and start moving traditional mission-critical enterprise applications into an open hybrid-cloud environment, and foster […]
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Yuval Dvir: To Understand AI, We Must Understand Human Intelligence
“May you live in interesting times”: it’s a famous back-handed blessing. And yet… here we are, living in interesting times. Technology is changing the way we live, work and play. Time to insight and frequency of innovation are being fueled by the ease of data sharing, collaboration and productivity. The convergence of infotech and biotech […]
Brian Behlendorf Video: Building an Open Source Community for Enterprise Blockchain Technology
Brian Behlendorf is most famous for developing the Apache HTTP server, and he served as CTO of the World Economic Forum, but did you know he was also one of the original technologists for the Burning Man festival? Empowering everyday people has always been a priority for him – he’s a longtime subverter of corporate […]
Will Pemble: Death by Winning
Entrepreneur and executive coach Will Pemble has been founding and growing businesses of all shapes and sizes for over 25 years. Video Will Pemble Death By Winning He said that web.com was growing consistently already, but then their customer acquisition shot through the roof – around 2,000 new customers per day. Just like how Factory […]
Tatiana Tropina Video: Should Cloud Companies Become Internet Cops?
Tatiana Tropina does not mince words! Biggie once said “Mo’ money, mo’ problems”, but in this case that can apply to hyperscale platforms whose clients push out billions of content nodes. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) described the passage of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive as “abandon[ing] common-sense and the advice of […]
Xavier Poisson: The Cloud is Not a Destination, It’s an Experience
In his keynote address, Xavier Poisson Gouyou Beauchamps, Hewlett Packard’s Vice President for Service Providers and Cloud28+ Worldwide, shared with the CloudFest crowd how technologies and alliances to shape the next generation of IT and break cloud stereotypes. Video Xavier Poisson There’s always a way to innovate faster with any cloud, anywhere, and at the […]
CloudFest School Progress Report: New Guatemala Classrooms Nearly Ready!
A quick update on the CloudFest School project in Guatemala: which has only been possible thanks to your generous support. Heavy rain in the region has slowed the construction process a bit, and so has the local election: even though the same mayor was re-elected, the process had temporarily disrupted the flow of political will. […]
Christian Geckeis Video: How Microsoft AI is empowering business transformation
“What could be worse than the apocalypse?” asked Geckeis. “AI could just be a marketing buzzword!” Business around AI has exploded, said Geckeis: 67% of businesses have already indicated a willingness to engage with artificial intelligence in their plans for tomorrow. Some major trends have come together to make this the moment for AI, said […]
Jeff Wittich: Building Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services
If we look back a few decades, we were running one monolithic application on one single server, said Jeff Wittich, Senior Director of Cloud Service Providers for Intel, in his CloudFest keynote: Things luckily evolved past that! Video Jeff Wittich Building Next Generation Cloud Digital retail will soon become $4.9 trillion market, and digital advertising […]
Hank Shocklee Video: Believe the Hype
“Inspiration comes from everywhere,” said Hank Shocklee. “Especially artists, we all take music from other places, take certain riffs and turn ‘em around – it all adds inspiration!” Now, though, inspiration has become legally controlled in a way never seen before. Shocklee said that making the seminal Public Enemy record Fear of a Black Planet […]