IBM Watson Targets AI’s Data Snags
IBM continues to ramp up its Watson AI offerings as adoption of automation technology remains limited, in part due to what company executives say is a lack of data ...Full Article
Oracle’s Mark Hurd Dies at 62
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd, who was at that company for nearly 10 years and who played a lead in Oracle’s move into public cloud computing, has died at age ...Full Article
IBM Announces New Watson AI, IBM Cloud Capabilities, Customers
IBM this afternoon issued several updates to its public cloud and Watson AI portfolios, including news that Aegean Airlines, BNP Paribas, ExxonMobil, Elaw Tecnologia SA (a Brazil-based legal management ...Full Article
Updated: Worm Hits Docker Containers
A crypto-jacking worm, so-called because it spreads in spurts among unsecured images on servers, is said to be the first detected using Docker application containers. Palo Alto Network’s (NYSE: ...Full Article
Amazon Pulls Plug on Oracle Databases
Amazon Web Services declared victory in its latest skirmish with cloud rival and database leader Oracle, announcing this week it has completed the migration of its consumer business to ...Full Article
Hot Demand for Hyperscale Data Centers Hampered by Skills Gap
Soaring demand for hyperscale data centers and colocation services is having a ripple effect within the value chain that builds and integrates those services, a new survey finds. As ...Full Article
Free GPUs? Startup Hopes Free Is Right Price for GPU Cloud Service
GPUs are famously expensive – high end Nvidia Teslas can be priced well above $10,000. Now a New York startup, Paperspace, has announced a free cloud GPU service for ...Full Article
John Deere Uses Machine Learning to Help Fewer Farmers Do More with Less
Farming and advanced AI may seem antithetical, but they’re not. Ask John Deere. The venerable farm equipment company has not only long embraced advanced technologies, the company for years ...Full Article
ML Education: How Pearson Abstracted Away Rookie AI Headaches
In organizations that successfully embrace AI, going on gut feel is going the way of the dodo. So is the phrase: “because that’s the way we’ve always done it.” ...Full Article
Human Error Offsets Greater Datacenter Reliability
Despite the vastly improved reliability of datacenter gear and the rise of managed services to anticipate and limit consequences, an industry survey finds that datacenter outages remain common and ...Full Article
