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Decision Making in Uncertain Times

Leaders know that making good, fast decisions is challenging under the best of circumstances. But, the trickiest decisions are those we call “big bets” – unfamiliar and high-stakes decisions. When you have a crisis of uncertainty, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which arrived at overwhelming speed and enormous scale, organizations face a potentially paralyzing volume of these big-bet decisions.

Augmented Analytics - How Associative and AI Technologies Are Changing the Face of Analytics

It’s hard to believe that we are now over 30 years into data warehousing. In that time, we have seen major changes in tools to help user report on and analyse data. In the last twenty years, we have seen the evolution from reporting, ad hoc analysis and advanced analytics. Today, BI/Analytics is a mature market with self-service BI and visual analysis standards in most organisations with self-service data preparation also widely deployed.

Don't You (Forget About Your Data)

Back in 1985, Simple Minds sang “Don’t You (Forget About Me),” the soundtrack to – what is IMHO – one of the greatest movies of the ‘80s: “The Breakfast Club.” The song famously asks us not to forget, and – if any of the wedding parties I’ve attended are anything to go by – we certainly haven’t. However, when it comes to our sensitive data, that’s not always the case.

Has Data, AI and Bots Brought Us Closer Than Ever To Achieving The Modern Day KITT Car?

As a kid, I loved the TV show “Knight Rider.” But, for me, the star of the show wasn’t David Hasselhoff, it was the intelligent automobile KITT. KITT – the Knight Industries Two Thousand – was smart, funny and sarcastic, which is always well received by us Brits.

"If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail" - Benjamin Franklin

In February 2017, I was out on a routine training ride when I made a turn on loose gravel. Next thing I knew, I was laying on the pavement. Just like that, I broke my hip and collar bone, and I knew I woudn’t be able to race in the Ironman Lake Placid that year. So, I adjusted from racing to recovery. And, I’m happy to report, I returned to racing in 2019, completing the Ironman Lake Placid that year.

Keep On Running With Kubernetes

When Jackie Edwards wrote “Keep On Running” back in 1965, he certainly wasn't thinking about the future of computing. But, it's the Spencer Davis Group grooves that is the soundtrack playing in my head when I think about Kubernetes and the business value it brings. Enabling your environment to “Keep On Running” is just one of many of Kubernetes’ value adds.