Artificial Agency: The “Action” Side of AI

Artificial intelligence is all the rage. Today, computing can perform feats that appear similar to stuff humans might do, if we were smarter (i.e., had more computing power). But just because a computing system can do something, should it? What actions do we want computers performing on our behalf? We can treat this like a […]

Oracle helps users curate their way through the growing open-source cloud stack

This post is sponsored by Oracle Corp. The mission of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is to build sustainable ecosystems and foster communities around a set of high-quality open-source projects that orchestrate containers as part of a microservices architecture. The deepening CNCF cloud-native stack As the centerpiece of CNCF’s efforts, Kubernetes has been implemented by […]

Curating the Production-Grade Cloud-Native Computing Stack

This is a Wikibon Premium Research Note, sponsored by Oracle. Cloud-Native Opportunities and Challenges Cloud-native computing presents big opportunities for enterprise application integration. When it’s built on open-source platforms, cloud-native computing enables development, deployment, orchestration and management of microservices that can be deployed flexibly and securely across multicloud ecosystems. Kubernetes is the key to cloud-native […]

Robotic Process Automation is Poised for 10X growth by 2023

Premise Robotic process automation (RPA) will become a fundamental means for organizations to increase productivity over the next five to ten years. We believe the market is poised to grow from approximately $1B in worldwide spending today to more than $10B by 2023. The Employment Picture The most recent job data shows there are a […]