Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

Global Data Fabric Takes on the Diversity of Data Types

October 2nd, 2017 (0)

Life is a journey, but getting to your data shouldn’t have to be. Data is the lifeblood of most businesses, but many organizations aren’t taking full advantage of their data because it’s complex, globally distributed and hard to access. ...

‘Run Anywhere’ Enterprise Analytics and HPC Converge at TACC

September 29th, 2017 (0)

Advances in storage, processor, and cloud technology have made run-anywhere big data analytics available to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) as well as Fortune 1000 companies. Run-anywhere means that only a processor and sufficient memory and storage to ...

Artificial Super-Intelligence: 3 Roadblocks and the End of Moore’s Law

September 27th, 2017 (0)

Debate over AI’s ultimate impact, utopic vs. dystopic, on humanity has swing back and forth this year like a Hegelian Dialectic on steroids. This publication has given voice to the dystopics, led by Elon Musk, who held sway in ...

A Wary Look at AI from an IT Implementation Veteran

September 26th, 2017 (0)

If the AI hype cycle were a dial setting on a washing machine, it would now be in the spin cycle phase. It’s intense. The talk and hopes for AI are so exciting, there’s so much potential, we wait ...

Machine Learning at HPC User Forum: Drilling into Specific Use Cases

September 22nd, 2017 (0)

The 66th HPC User Forum held this month in Milwaukee focused on the latest trends in modern computing – deep learning, machine learning and AI – and some common themes became obvious: First, that ML and DL are focused ...

Real-Time AI at the Edge: The Coming Age of ‘Connected Intelligence’

September 21st, 2017 (0)

The world's undergoing digital transformation and it’s all coming together – all of it: all the sensor data, unstructured data, machine data, data produced by humans, everything - every image, item, person, activity, task and process will be pixelated ...

Oracle Takes Aim at Public Cloud Heavies, Claims 50% Cost Savings

September 19th, 2017 (0)

In an overt attempt to overtake – or at least enter the arena with – the Big Three public cloud services providers, Oracle today unveiled new public cloud offerings that it says will transform how cloud services are bought ...

Why Your Digital Transformation Initiative Will Probably Fail

September 18th, 2017 (0)

There’s lots of talk about “Digital Transformation” as if it were something new, as if the concept were in its infancy. But in truth, digital transformation has been around for a while, and it’s acting less like a newborn ...

The Week in Cybersecurity: Kaspersky Out in the Cold; Azure Releases ‘Confidential Computing’

September 15th, 2017 (0)

Cybersecurity – along with national security and Russian espionage – are very much in the news, and the two concerns came together this week with the announcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that federal agencies stop using ...

In Bid for Major Carriers and Service Providers, Dell EMC Rack Scale Infrastructure Offers ‘Hyperscale Principles’

September 12th, 2017 (0)

Calling it “hyperscale inspired,” Dell EMC today announced a rack scale infrastructure – including compute, storage, networking, power, cooling and open management – aimed at major carriers and service providers, mammoth companies whose IT requirements rank just below those ...