Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

Using Data Patterns in a Retail Culture of Immediacy

December 10th, 2018 (0)

Retailers who have embraced digital disruption and transformed their businesses know two hard truths: consumer expectations can rise quickly; and no seller is safe. Thanks to the “Amazon Effect,” consumers now believe that benefits like expedited, on-demand deliveries are ...

No Waiting: Mellanox Uses Univa to Extend Silicon Design HPC Operation to Azure

December 7th, 2018 (0)

Call it a corollary to Murphy’s Law: When a system is most in demand, when end users are most dependent on the system performing as required, when it’s crunch time – that’s when the system is most likely to ...

Intel 7nm May Arrive Sooner than Expected; Moore’s Law Cadence to Follow?

December 6th, 2018 (0)

2018 has been a rough one for Intel, abuse has been heaped on the company for its dilatory delivery of a 10nm process technology – first slated for 2016, now for late 2019. This writer and fellow “knights of ...

Mass Shootings, Contraband Cargo in Crosshairs of AI, Advanced Scanning

December 5th, 2018 (0)

AI may be on the cusp of combating menaces of American life: mass shootings and terrorism. Two start-ups have technologies under development designed to spot bad actors, and bad cargo, before they can cause harm. Liberty Defense Technologies is ...

Study: AI’s Not Just in the Future of Work – it’s Big Now

December 3rd, 2018 (0)

Pundits trumpet AI as the future for U.S. employment, but new research indicates AI's prevalence on the job is already here. How do we know? Because workers told us. Data based on a survey of U.S. workers in June ...

AWS Firecracker Takes on Serverless Security, Speed Challenges

November 30th, 2018 (0)

Better security and more speed – what else could we ask of serverless computing? At re:Invent this week, AWS launched a new take on virtual machines with a virtualization technology and open source project (under the Apache 2.0 license) ...

AWS Rolls ‘Inferentia’ Chip Amid Raft of New ML Services, Technologies

November 28th, 2018 (0)

Amazon Web Services poured forth a rolling tide of new product announcements today at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, an impressive portfolio of technologies that extend the cloud services giant’s reach and appeal across a range of advanced ...

‘Big Breakthrough’: AWS Launches First Arm Cloud Instances

November 27th, 2018 (0)

AWS, a macrocosm of the emerging high-performance technology landscape, wants to be everywhere you want to be and offer everything you want to use (or at least try out). As such, the cloud computing services giant has furthered the ...

Video and Rich Media: Overcoming Performance and Scale Hurdles

November 26th, 2018 (0)

Video and rich media content is growing exponentially. Video now constitutes 50 percent of all data, and a rich media explosion is driving performance and capacity gains across countless markets. This content enhances the capabilities of businesses across the ...

The Process Industry: 4 AI Questions to Ask before Implementation

November 20th, 2018 (0)

Food processing, beverage production, chemical manufacturing, water treatment, and other verticals in the process industry know that performance monitoring of industrial assets and processes plays a critical role. It’s all about monitoring the key parameters, predicting what’s going to ...