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Know exactly what DevOps Is? DevOps is a group of concepts that automates the processes between IT teams and software development. Which provides an ability to; solve critical issues quickly, faster software releases, increased trust and better management of unplanned work. https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/devops-business-perspective/ In simple words, it’s a collaboration between development and operations which focuses on tighter integration. So now, let us get straight to how DevOps can benefit you and your business: When executed properly, It can not only convert your software process but also create merit for both employees and customers. Through DevOps, developers can infuse in the opportunity to work more efficiently with stakeholders, operations. Okay, I can hear the sceptic saying “what are the benefits? “ So below is a list of benefits of DevOps business model. Continuous Release and smarter Deployment of new system and applications- This approach ensures a...

Artificial Intelligence is not a substitute for human intelligence, just a subtle way of reaching conclusions. Despite all the hype about Artificial Intelligence, most of the AI technology is still in very early stages of development. Any AI successes are coming from Deep Learning and Machine Learning technologies, which are far too expensive and complex, with no direct ROI evidence, for Small and Medium Sized businesses. https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/ai-preferred-modern-smes/ Many businesses and consumers are already using Artificial Intelligence as their priority. This technology is being used in Applications like smart-home security systems, self-driving cars and intelligent refrigerators and also, in voice recognition devices and virtual assistants such as Google Home, Amazon’s Alexa, Siri and Cortana which are being used in workplaces and as well as at home. Changing our understanding of what’s possible Artificial Intelligence has already strongly influenced the w...

There are many news and blogs about the technology and solutions relating to new Digital services, Cloud Technology, Big Data, IoT. And of course, no one can forget Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning. These new tech services and solutions, all rely on one another from time to time. So today, let us discuss one other hot topic in the software world of architecture as well; Serverless Computing. https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/cloud-services-serverless-computing/ The three major Cloud Computing Service Provider companies namely  Google Cloud Platform , Amazon Web Service ( AWS ) and  Microsoft Azure  are investing heavily in Serverless Computing. It is a form of  Utility Computing . First thing first, unlike what its name suggests serverless computing still requires servers. It is called as such because the server management with capacity planning decisions is entirely hidden from the operator/developer. Furthermore, applications can be written...

T here are various kind of organizations that use different cloud service providers to avail multiple benefits. And most service providers offer high performance, great customer support and excellent availability. But among all, the market is dominated by three top services which include cloud platforms like  Amazon Web Services , Microsoft  Azure , and  Google . https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/aws-azure-google-cloud-platforms/ Assets and liabilities of these Cloud platforms: CLOUD PLATFORM ASSETS LIABILITIES                 AWS Extensive, mature offerings Enterprise-friendly services Open and flexible global reach Difficult to use Overwhelming options Cost management      MICROSOFT AZURE Integration with Microsoft tools Broad feature set Ranks First in development and testing tools Open source support Hybrid cloud Less efficient management tooling Less enterprise ready ...

Earlier this year ( 25 th  May 2018  to be precise), we had the European Union’s GDPR, which in many terms is a milestone in the digital age. It gives the EU and the  EEA  citizens more transparency of why, how and where their information is being used. That at the same time gave out some major hiccups to many local and international businesses all over the world. https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/eu-gdpr-californias-ccpa-new-2018/ Now, following the footsteps of the European Parliament and Council of the European Union we have here a new regulation-  “CCPA” . A law for California, to give Californians the ‘who, where, what, and when’ of how businesses handle consumers’ personal information. Many of you must have already heard of it by now. So, let us now discuss the main elements of this new California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. Effective Date & Deadline for CCPA- The Californian GDPR: AB 375  California privacy act, officiall...

First coined in the 1990s, the term Big Data primarily denotes massive sets of both structured and unstructured data. Used for better user behaviour analysis and predictive analysis, Big Data technology is very helpful in revealing the business trends and patterns relating to the target. One of the central concepts associated with the characteristics of big data is the “ 3V’s concept ” which includes- https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/big-data-benefit-business/ Volume – data quantity, Variety – data’s type and nature, Velocity – this characteristic of big data defines the generating and processing speed when required. & later followed by  Veracity  – The quality of data. Whether the data is fit for the intended uses in decision making, operations and planning. The information must be meaningful. What is Big Data Analytics – Big Data Analytics provides organisations with complete user’s profiles, which allows for more customer experiences personalisation ...

YouTube new update  has been launched which uses a copyright match tool similar to the current content ID match tool but specifically scans for reuploads of the same videos or closely similar videos. https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/youtube-removing-unauthorized-reuploads/ Hitechnectar.com YouTube Removing Unauthorized Re-uploads YouTube has released a statement that it cares about the content by the creators on YouTube, and they would not want anyone else using the content to make money off it illegitimately. But YouTube has empowered the creators themselves for this. When the  YouTube  copyright match tool  detects any re-upload, it simply contacts the original creator via email and demands an action on the video which is either to allow the video to remain or demand the video be taken down. The video’s authenticity is verified based on the time of the upload of the first video. The earlier uploaded video is considered as the original content. T...

Artificial intelligence is reaching and discovering new milestones every now and then. While realising the present ones, a new landmark is being conceived by the creative minds of human. This time Google is transforming the contact center with enhanced AI-Powered bots. Some days ago, Google announced the launch of  Contact Center AI  ALPHA    and added to the new AI Revolution It’s the second time this quarter that a Google announcement is rocking the contact center world. First Announcement:  The Google Duplex- During the  Google I/O 2018  event  (8 May 2018 – 10 May 2018) , “Google Duplex” was rolled out. It features a robot which sounds exactly like a real human. The robot gets in a conversation with an individual without him realising that he was actually talking to an AI agent. Read More: https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/virtual-agents-new-ai-contact-center/

AI has been dominating the market and news lately. AI has already been adopted by various companies and industries and has transformed the way the organizations’ function. The popularity has been increasing ever since. Product developers are now able to create products and services which until now were not within reach of the average marketing budget. But before plunging into the decision to implement AI, it is necessary to understand the differences between data analytics and AI machine learning. It is necessary to know which the best solution for your organization is. Data Analytics Data analytics includes processing of datasets on certain defined parameters to draw conclusions about required information. It empowers the decision makers by providing all the information they require at their finger-tips. This includes newsletter conversation rates, tracking of user behavior on apps and websites, click-through rates of online advertising, and much more. Read More:  https://...

Artificial Intelligence has, in recent times, become the go-to technology for all the businesses. Artificial Intelligence i.e., AI has been gaining importance with its broad range of applications. But, what makes AI so vital to the companies these days?  This question has various agreeable answers to it . Nevertheless, AI is already being executed in numerous fascinating approaches that have magnified and entirely changed the way we do business. Organizations now realise the importance of customer experience in growing their business. AI helps organisations to improve their customer experience in various ways. The following is a non-exhaustive list of the ways AI can help with customer experience. Chatbots, Virtual Assistants, Customer Service Automation. Customer Insights Personalization Better and Useful Predictions and Omnichannel experiences Read More:  https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/4-artificial-intelligence-customer-experience/

We have been coming across the term “digital transformation”. We hear a lot about how it has been reducing the gap between the IT and businesses. Before jumping to how it affects our business or how our approach towards digital transformation should be, let us first get to know what digital transformation means for business. What is Digital Transformation? Digital transformation is the adaptation of technology by businesses for various activities and processes. It enables the businesses to fully leverage the technologies to accelerate their processes. Digital transformation includes certain IT objectives on the guidelines of which the transformation is carried out. These IT objectives are targets the businesses set for their complete digitization and are included in their digital transformation framework. Objectives for Digital Transformation For successful digital transformation, businesses need to set certain key objectives to follow. Here are 5 key IT objectives that com...

This Wednesday (Sep 5, 2018), Google launched a new search engine named Google Dataset Search. Dataset search allows users to search for datasets multiple repositories present on the Web. Much like kaggle, where you can find and publish high-quality datasets to help you in exploring and building models or science projects with that database. You can connect and learn with many data scientists and machine learning engineers about various problems and new approaches. https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/intro-new-google-dataset-search-engine/ Google AI ✔ @GoogleAI Announcing the launch of Dataset Search, a new way for researchers to find the datasets they need, wherever they’re hosted, whether it’s a publisher's site, a digital library, or an author's personal web page. Learn more at http:// goo.gl/BYSouA   2:40 AM - Sep 6, 2018 5,066 3,129 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy In a recent ...

Kubernetes and Docker: These two remarkably popular platforms adopted for managing containers and much more may seem to be competing technologies. Kubernetes and Docker are essential if you are willing to build a modern cloud infrastructure and run it. Kubernetes and Docker are popular as ‘managing containers’, and it may seem that they are in each other’s competition right now. Nevertheless, by the end of this article, you will find out that they, in many ways are actually complementary. These systems provide many techniques to build and manage virtual  containers . But their systems differ significantly. Furthermore, they can even work together. What is Kubernetes:    Kubernetes is an open-source container management system or a container-orchestration designed by Google. The CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) manages it now. It aims at providing, automating deploy, scaling and managing operations for developers interested in Linux containers. What is ...

Gone are the days of “if it complies, send it”. In today’s fast-paced world, no developer should take long hours for the development of new applications or for bug fixes. It is now expected for the developers to roll out bug fixes in new updates as quickly and automatically as possible. Applications could have bug fixes on daily basis. But these update release cycles require continuous integration tools. CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. Continuous integration is a development practice wherein the developers integrate their updated code in a common shared repository, often multiple times a day. Google recently released its CI/CD framework Cloud Build at Google Cloud Next ’18 held in San Francisco. Google Cloud Build Cloud Build is Google’s own continuous integration/continuous delivery platform. Google mentions on their official blog site, Cloud build is their “fully-managed Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery platform that lets you build a...

Facebook has been in the news quite a lot recently over issues on data, the way it was collected and used by Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg even had to face some embarrassing moments in the chair facing the senate while answering some tough questions over him being comfortable sharing his own personal information. But as Facebook was waiting for the dust to settle, a new storm kicked to the fore, the Facebook fake news storm. The entire Facebook team has had their hands full with handling the uproaring backlash from their users and authorities over Facebook aiding in the spread of fake news. Facebook’s infowar has taken a new turn with the team looking to find solutions to curb the spreading menace as the authorities are breathing down heavily on them. Yet, this is not the beginning of the infowar. It is imperative to understand exactly what is infowars where Facebook finds itself in the middle of? It had all begun during the US presidential elections where Facebook was blamed to aid Do...

AI is practically in every possible area by now including e-commerce. It needs no formal introduction. There are so many articles about how Artificial Intelligence has stretched its legs to almost every possible roads and is being continuously experimented upon. Today, we will be discussing its hold over the realm of e-commerce and the benefits of artificial intelligence in e-commerce. https://www.hitechnectar.com/blogs/four-ways-ai-e-commerce-industry/ AI has been helping the e-commerce section for quite a long time from now and is vigorously enhancing its functions for better accuracy and results. The use of artificial intelligence in the e-commerce industry are several with some of the primary applications being: Chatbots and Virtual assistance Omnipresent customisation Email Automation AI-driven predictive analytics models & lead scoring Chatbots and Virtual assistance Whether it is artificial intelligence e-commerce platform, or AI healthcare platform or th...

New Builds are Out and Rolling-   17723  (Fast Ring) and  18204  (Skip Ahead). The two new builds are out in the sky of Windows 10. We see some of the changes in build 17723 of  Redstone 5 & 18204 of  19H1  ( Redstone 6 ) which presumably means 2019 first half of the year. Here, we will look at the latest build of the ‘Redstone 5’ 17723. 2 days ago i.e.,  July 25th 2018 was the new release date for the latest build of Redstone 5 range. As per the company’s typical release schedule, Redstone 5 is due to hit the  RTM  (release to manufacturer) status in September, and the public rollout should begin in October. Today, we will be discussing the build 17723 only. That is because the ‘Skip ahead Build’- 18204 has almost nothing new in it for us. Right now, they both are pretty much in the same level. Though it is said to be stable, Skip Ahead might have some issues. However, if you may want to opt- in, to Prepare your PC for Win...

An Overview: Walmart announced its partnership with Microsoft over cloud technology The two companies are cloud and retail giant, Amazon’s rivals Walmart tie-up with Microsoft is with the intention of making online shopping easier and faster for consumers globally Walmart has recently announced that they have signed a deal with Microsoft to use  Microsoft artificial intelligence  and cloud technology. This deal brings the two Amazon foes together. The agreement spans for a broad five years. According to the agreement, Walmart gets to leverage the complete range of Microsoft cloud services. These services also include  Microsoft Azure Cloud Services  and Microsoft 365. “Walmart’s commitment to technology centres around creating convenient ways for customers to shop and empower associates to do their best”, Microsoft quoted The COE of Walmart Doug McMillon on their official news site. “Walmart is a people led, tech-empowered company. And we are excit...

irst things first,  the latest version features streamlined workflows and reflects the design updates in the new AdWords experience. Starting July 24 2018, Google Adwords will become Google Ads. Well for us the only thing this change means is instead of logging in to Adwords  adwords.google.com, we will log into Google Ads (ads.google.com). According to Google, from 24th July onwards the new brand name and logo will reflect on the website, platform, billing and help centre. The New  update Google Keyword Planner A year after launching their Keyword Planner, Google made the first significant update to the tool a few weeks ago and gave an additional set of features to make it more useful and powerful. That will also reflect with the new Adwords update. These updates are done to make the tool less time exhausting and more advantageous for marketers. Let us now straight off go to the ‘new Google Keyword planner’ revamp presently known as the Google keyword tool. At ...