The Intelligent Cloud

Nothing can stop the Cloud! As we all bounce back from the pandemic, we are not losing our focus on the key agent of change affecting the Cloud industry: artificial intelligence and its profound interrelation with Cloud computing is too important to ignore. The Intelligent Cloud The theme for CloudFest is The Intelligent Cloud. At […]

Marie Douglas: New Model for Your Competitive Advantage in the Cloud

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 […]

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 […]

Gender Ex Machina: Handling A Hot Topic With Cool Hands

Handling A Hot Topic With Cool Hands The wounds from the “Google gender memo” are cutting deep through the media world, the social media world, and watercolor conversations everywhere. Should he have written it? Is he a “bad guy?” Is Google responding correctly? Should he have been fired? This article isn’t about any of that. […]