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Digital Transformation: Private Optical Networks and the ‘Third Platform’
In order to remain competitive in today’s all-digital world, enterprises are embracing digital transformation (DX). Cloud applications are now a vital component for how organizations develop products, reach the ...Full Article
Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a ...Full Article
At SC17: Silicon, Systems and Science – the Good News and the Bad
We interviewed Karl Freund, lead analyst for deep learning and HPC at Moor Insights & Strategy, at SC17 in Denver to discuss the fertile crossover between AI and HPC ...Full Article
DAX Data Wrangling: Deutsche Börse Lifts Data Scientists’ ‘80% Problem’
At the German Stock Exchange – aka Deutsche Börse, home of the DAX – data scientists are getting unburdened from “janitorial” tasks that can consume up to 80 percent ...Full Article
Cost, Security Issues Persist Amid Cloud Boom
The billowing cloud market that is growing at an estimated 40 percent annually is being driven to new heights by the enterprise embrace of multi-cloud strategies along with a ...Full Article
Kubernetes Momentum Builds With New AWS Tools
Amazon Web Services has rolled out new application container tools designed to run containers without having to manage infrastructure along with a managed Kubernetes container orchestration capability. Both run ...Full Article
Toward Broader AI Adoption: Deloitte’s ‘5 Vectors of Progress’
For all the talk about AI it's somewhat surprising that only about 10 percent of companies have invested in machine learning. While the talk underscores AI’s great potential, the ...Full Article
AI’s Cool New Thing: Capsule Networks (explained)
A buzz is about in AI circles around “capsule networks,” a new variant on neural networks that backers say could simplify, cut the costs of, commoditize and, in the ...Full Article
SC17 Takeaways: Machine Learning + HPC = ‘Synthesis Modeling’, and Other Developments
The annual supercomputing confab, SC17, was held last week in Denver, and there were many important announcements. Stories about science, silicon and systems all vied for attention and center ...Full Article
