Online marketplaces have revolutionized the customer experience. Regardless of industry, the global success of marketplaces is built on providing a seamless experience across every step of the user journey. Trust is also a valuable asset for marketplaces. With high volumes of users — who don’t necessarily know or trust each other — ensuring the safety ...

E-commerce platforms have conquered the consumer market with the convenience of online and on-demand shopping fuelling growth. However, as e-commerce activity has increased around the world, so too has fraud. While creating a seamless buying and selling experiences for users is key, e-commerce platforms must take steps to verify users are who they say they ...

IT is driving innovation. If you can’t deliver software fast, your organisation can’t deliver. Yet one of the biggest barriers to innovation is complexity. To overcome this obstacle many organisations are looking to automation. This paper explores how IT organisations can expand automation to the enterprise and bring new levels of control, security and delegation ...

Modern, enterprise scale IT environments will continue to become more and more complex and dense as enterprises migrate towards multi-cloud, container and micro-service based architectures. Simultaneously, every aspect of the business is becoming digital and directly dependent on high levels of infrastructure availability, security and application performance. IT operations and DevOps teams require robust, consistent ...

The success of public cloud came from new workload enablement, which provided a unique economic model that lowered the financial barrier for workloads with variability. However, existing workloads required significant additional spending to ready for cloud. For several years, enterprises have described their cloud strategies as hybrid — using a mix of cloud and non-cloud ...

In today’s hybrid IT environment, workloads are deployed across various cloud infrastructures along with traditional IT environments. Containers are one solution to the problem of getting software to run reliably when migrating from one environment to another. As they are small, containers start up almost instantly. Faster start-up times contribute to less downtime, resulting in ...

Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python’s past and explores what’s next. This download provides the magazine version of the article as a free PDF for registered TechRepublic and ZDNet members. You can also read the online ...

iRobot has used its new design, software, and data science strategies to expand into new areas, using an approach to the smart home that is different from its big tech rivals. This download provides the magazine version of the article as a free PDF for registered TechRepublic and ZDNet members. You can also read the ...

Lenovo, a leading PC manufacturer and a top-five player in the server market, has recently returned its smartphone group to profitability. After visiting its China HQ, Charles McLellan reports on Lenovo’s future. This download provides the magazine version of the article as a free PDF for registered TechRepublic and ZDNet members. The online version of ...

In this TechRepublic cover story, Teena Maddox reports on how the Buffalo Trace, Wild Turkey, and Bardstown Bourbon Company distilleries use data analytics, RFID, automation, and IoT to streamline production and distribution. This download provides the magazine version of the article as a free PDF for registered TechRepublic and ZDNet members. The online version of ...