Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

Fools for Love: ML Defends against Dating Site Fraudsters

February 14th, 2018 (0)

Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate and, for the fortunate among us, enjoy that most intoxicating of human emotions: romantic love. But amid the red roses and candlelit dinners we must also be wary of love’s potential for ...

AI Cloud Competition Heats Up: Google’s Cloud TPUs, Amazon’s AI Chip

February 12th, 2018 (0)

Competition in the white hot AI (and public cloud) market pits Google against Amazon this week, with Google offering AI hardware on its cloud platform intended to make it easier, faster and cheaper to train and run machine learning/deep ...

Intel Debuts Xeon SoC for Edge Applications, Addresses ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ Fears

February 9th, 2018 (0)

Intel has addressed the drive for increasingly powerful processing at the edge of systems and networks with the launch this week of the Xeon D-2100 SoC, designed to support workloads that require more compute, analytics and data protection closer ...

2 DoD Cloud Contracts Total Nearly $1 Billion

February 8th, 2018 (0)

Migration of government agencies’ legacy applications to public clouds is a two-headed monster: one head is the procurement process, which can take months or years. The other is the actual technical work of IT migration. REAN Cloud, a cloud ...

Warning: Beware of Traditional Networking Tools for Cloud Networking

February 7th, 2018 (0)

As you expand your public cloud presence, your cloud networking challenges increase exponentially. Unfortunately, relying on traditional networking technologies such as virtual routers (vRouters) as you scale into the cloud is not the wisest — or the safest — ...

Renée James, former Intel President, Heads New ARM-based Server Chip Venture

February 5th, 2018 (0)

The “leadership journey” of Renée James, who held the highest rank of any woman in the history of Intel Corp., has emerged as CEO of a well-heeled, venture-backed company developing ARM-based chips, based on technology from Applied Micro Circuits, ...

4IR: The Transformative Power of IoT and GIS

February 1st, 2018 (0)

Society is at an interesting inflection point as the combination of big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) come together in what some are hailing as the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). The world is on the ...

Rumors Swirl of Dell-VMware ‘Reverse-Merger’

January 30th, 2018 (0)

Just days after reports surfaced of a major management overhaul at Dell EMC, this week new reports emerged that Dell Technologies – the umbrella organization that encompasses a raft of tech companies either developed or acquired by Dell, including ...

How to Deceive Cyber Deceivers

January 29th, 2018 (0)

Since 2014, internal and external cyber-attacks have accelerated and there is evidence that these assailants are penetrating traditional defenses at an increasing rate. Today’s security technologies seek primarily to defend a perimeter, but both firewalls and end-point security cannot ...

Management Shakeup at Dell EMC Designed to Streamline Systems Development, Delivery

January 26th, 2018 (0)

Reverberations from Dell’s acquisition of EMC in October 2015 – at $67 billion, the biggest in the history of the technology industry – have extended into 2018 with the news that the company’s core server and storage business units ...