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Doug Black

The DNA of AI Success: What It Looks Like and How to Get It

April 16th, 2020 (0)

The AI journey starts with a single step, but too many companies take the wrong first step. The natural tendency is to begin with PoC projects at the departmental level. Start small and see what happens, right? Actually no. ...

AIOps Platform Aims to Cut ‘Alert Fatigue’

April 14th, 2020 (0)

AIOps seems to take delight in crying wolf – day and night, bells and whistles go off notifying IT site reliability engineers (SRE) that something might be wrong. Or not. The bigger and more complex the IT infrastructure, the ...

Tom Siebel’s Unified AI-Big Data Front Against COVID-19

April 9th, 2020 (0)

If AI is to help turn back the COVID-19 tide in a timeframe that saves lives and livelihoods, data scientists will need to build machine learning models fast and run them on a platform that scales to the global ...

Facial Coding vs. Facial Recognition – What’s the Difference?

April 8th, 2020 (0)

Machine learning and AI have revolutionized every industry—from media and marketing to manufacturing, medicine and finance. The ability for sophisticated, self-improving algorithms to sift through massive troves of data and detect predictive patterns is a hammer looking for nails: ...

BofA CTO to Run IBM Cloud, Other Management Changes at Big Blue

April 6th, 2020 (0)

The January retirement of Ginni Rometty as CEO and President of IBM – with Arvind Krishna, formerly head of IBM Cloud, promoted to CEO, a post he officially adopted today – has kicked off significant management changes at Big ...

AMD Epyc CPUs Available on IBM Cloud Servers

April 1st, 2020 (0)

AMD’s expanding presence in the data center and cloud computing markets took a step forward with today’s announcement that its 7nm 2nd Gen Epyc 7642 CPUs are now available on IBM Cloud bare metal servers. AMD, whose share of ...

Lenovo Links with Azure HCI Stack for Edge-Core-Cloud Compute, Storage

March 31st, 2020 (0)

Lenovo has linked with Microsoft to offer edge computing and storage hardware for organizations deploying Azure cloud-based hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) strategies. The devices, aimed at supporting IoT solutions and 5G technologies, is designed to address the increase in connected ...

Predictive AI Spots COVID-19 Patients with Life Threatening ‘Wet Lung’

March 30th, 2020 (0)

As the rise in COVID-19 cases threatens to overwhelm healthcare facilities in areas hard hit by the coronavirus (including New York City, where the USNS Comfort, pictured below, has been sent to relieve crowded hospitals), there is an urgent ...

Home Depot, IHG and the 5 Principles of IT Management in a Multi-Cloud World

March 30th, 2020 (0)

Proliferation of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures has resulted in rapid and remarkable technological advances. But it has also introduced monumental, multi-faceted complexities into IT infrastructure management, including: Managing multiple on-premises, private and public cloud resources Complicated and lengthy provisioning ...

Cash Prizes for COVID-19 AI Contest Testing Data Scientists’ NLP Smarts

March 25th, 2020 (0)

Ten thousand dollars in prize money is available to data scientists with natural language processing expertise competing in a contest designed to help rid the world of coronavirus. Kaggle, a web-based information sharing site and public arena for data ...