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By Abdul Mohammed
Revolutionizing the intricacies of complex network design, deployment, and management involves a comprehensive approach that integrates advanced technologies and methodologies. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI)-driven predictive analytics enables proactive optimization of network configurations, enhancing performance and preempting potential ...
By Aditi Godbole
With the rapid progress in the field of generative AI, a new era of AI has begun. AI is becoming increasingly accessible to individuals and businesses alike. This advent of AI is undeniably shaping the future of businesses. Business leaders are faced with a critical question: when is AI the right tool for their product?
While AI holds immense po...
By Ajinkya Mahadeo Ghadge
In today's digital age of contactless payments, credit card swipes, and mouse clicks, consumers have been increasingly worried about how their personal data is being used online. A recent study by the Pew Research Center found that 79% of Americans are concerned about how their data is being used. Another survey by Deloitte showed that 64% of r...
By Lucy Manole
Incident management is a crucial aspect of IT operations, involving the management of incidents that can disrupt services and impact business continuity. This encompasses monitoring systems, identifying issues, analyzing root causes, implementing remediation actions, and documenting resolutions.
Effective incident management is esse...
By Tejas Ghadge
Introduction
Availability guarantees for a service are measured in terms of number of 9s. For instance, a service 'A' with 99% availability would be referred to as having 2 9s of availability. 99% availability means for every 100 calls handled by service A, 1 can fail. If a client for service A can't tolerate this failure rate, i.e., 1 cal...
By Isla Sibanda
It's easy to overlook, but the tech industry's environmental footprint is comparable to that of the global aviation industry. The energy consumed by data centers, estimated to have been 460TWh in 2022, can at least partially be attributed to inefficient codebases, and contribute to a significant ecological footprint.
But is there a way to reduce ...
By Lalithkumar Prakashchand
In the realm of modern computing, distributed systems reign supreme, handling vast amounts of data, processing complex tasks, and serving millions of users concurrently. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into these systems has been nothing short of revolutionary, empowering them with capabilities like predictive analytics, anomaly de...
By Ajinkya Ghadge
Idempotency in payment processing microservice architectures might sound complicated, but it's crucial for ensuring your payments are processed smoothly and reliably every time. This article breaks down why idempotency is essential in modern payment systems and offers a high-level overview of effectively incorporating idempotency into microservices...
By Natnael Belay, Jayant Chowdhary, and Avichal Rakesh
Mobile software innovations significantly drive sustainability. As consumer electronics become ever more ubiquitous, original equipment manufacturers and operating system vendors have a growing responsibility to ensure that the manufacturing, distribution, and maintenance of those devices do not negatively impact the environment. Increasingly, soft...
By Nithya Ramamoorthy
Data is a ubiquitous asset that all organizations own at various levels of extent. In 2006, British Mathematician Clive Humby coined the phrase "Data is the New Oil", alluding to the importance and potential, Data can have when treated, refined, and used correctly. Industry experts picked up this phrase and played out for several years to the point...
By Anil Mahale
Cybersecurity threats permeate multiple layers of society, from the national to the organizational and personal levels. And threats are on the rise. Forbes reports 2,365 cyberattacks in 2023—a 72 percent increase from 2021. The 2023 attacks affected over 343 million people. Despite the best defense efforts, cyberattacks are increasing instead of ...
By David Balaban
Every modern organization struggles to strike a balance between two extremes. On the one hand, it enforces policies and procedures to secure and rein in the digital resources in use across the infrastructure. On the other hand, some of these rules may hamper productivity to such an extent that employees look for workarounds beyond whitelisted servi...
By Prithvish Kovelamudi
In today's digital landscape, businesses increasingly rely on cloud-based computer systems to store and process critical data and applications. While cloud computing offers numerous benefits, it also introduces new challenges in disaster recovery (DR) planning. This article examines the complexities of disaster recovery for cloud-based systems and ...
By Kruti Shah
The concerns around the environmental impact of digitization have grown significantly as our lives increasingly revolve around digital technology. There is no doubt that the advancements in the tech industry have simplified our lives, but they do come with a cost.
According to the UN, the technology industry currently accounts for about 2% to 3% o...
By Arshey Patadia
LiDAR, or light detection and ranging technology, is transformative in implementing many of today's most influential autonomous systems. From self-driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles to drones, robotic assistants, and smart home devices, LiDAR investments reached approximately $11 billion in 2022. Given the complexity and importance of this t...
By Sivasundar Pattabiraman
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), supported by natural language processing (NLP), is revolutionizing search technology with advanced efficiency, indexing, and personalization in multimodal query results. With semantic search, users have unprecedented access to accurate, comprehensive information from verified sources, reducing the spread ...
By Gilad David Maayan
What Is Cloud Cost Optimization?
Cloud cost optimization is the process of reducing your overall cloud spending by identifying mismanaged resources, eliminating waste, reserving capacity to receive discounted rates, and right-sizing computing services to scale. This practice involves understanding the cost implications of cloud resources, then...
By Arun Gupta
Technology has transformed the landscape of business operations. In contemporary business practices, numerous avenues, such as social media, website interactions, and email communications, serve as channels for customer engagement. Within these engagements, a significant volume of data is generated. According to Statista, businesses collectively ge...
Vector databases represent a novel approach to data storage and retrieval. It is designed to meet the challenges of the AI and big data era. Unlike traditional databases that rely on exact matches, vector databases excel at similarity-based searches. It enables them to efficiently handle complex, high-dimensional data such as images, text, and audi...
By Akshay Rawat
The rapid proliferation of digital payments in recent years has led to increased fraudulent activities. This is a serious concern for consumers, financial institutions, fintech enterprises, and even the government. Many organizations are working to identify various methods, including machine learning (ML), to detect fraudulent activities. Businesse...
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