The Event Mesh: A Primer

Companies that develop or support products in the field need to transition from reactive to predictive maintenance and service. Such a transition is possible using ubiquitous connectivity and predictive analytics on machine data. Here’s how.

Although edge architectures differ fundamentally from conventional cloud and on-premises environments, edge isn’t an alternative to traditional infrastructure strategies as much as it is an augmentation of them.

The relationships banks have with their customers can last for decades, but too many banks fail to use the data they have to provide personalized digital banking services. 

Every transaction, order, customer interaction, and internal operation depends on decisions. At a time when businesses are under pressure to improve efficiencies, cut costs, and be more responsive, automating decisions becomes essential. While many businesses have picked off the low-hanging fruit when automating, most need to add more. Specifically, businesses want to automate complex decisions, involving multiple steps, multiple data sources and many rules.

For AI workloads operating at scale, implementing storage solely based on performance benchmarks does not reflect real-world operating conditions.

In this week’s real-time analytics news: The Google Cloud Next conference produced many partner announcements.

Explore the top smart manufacturing trends for 2026, including AI, IoT, and automation. Learn how manufacturers are using these technologies to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and build resilient, data-driven operations.

Modern enterprise applications, especially those driven by real-time data, AI inference, and latency-sensitive user experiences, are exposing the limitations of a one-size-fits-all cloud strategy, forcing organizations to rethink workload placement across hybrid and distributed environments. The shift is no longer about “cloud vs. on-prem,” but about architecting for performance, cost predictability, and data gravity in a world where systems must operate continuously and adapt dynamically.