Bestowing the blessings of AI, machine learning and deep learning upon more than the 1 percent means easing entry into the mysteries of AI. This requires new combinations of technologies with capabilities otherwise possessed only by data scientists, those AI-capable unicorns worth their body weights in gold and who are so often lured by bags ...Full article
There is no shortage of corporate AI projects underway and most will fail because companies have not laid the proper foundation in the form of pilot projects or proof of concept approaches needed to scale AI efforts. That’s the central conclusion of a new survey of about 80 companies jumping on the AI bandwagon but ...Full article
The rapid turnaround approach to enterprise application development known as low code continues to gain momentum with this week’s acquisition of cloud native application development specialist Mendix by the German industrial conglomerate Siemens. Munich-based Siemens (ETR: SIE) said Wednesday (Aug. 1) is expects to close the roughly $730 million cash deal during its first fiscal ...Full article
When Miguel – the 12-year old protagonist of “Coco,” the recently released film from Disney and Pixar – first sees the Land of the Dead, it’s a beautiful moment in animated filmmaking. The city, which appears to go on forever, floats in space. Because it’s always night in the Land of the Dead, millions of ...Full article
Semiconductor design is booming, propelled by unrelenting demand for new memory chips, cloud computing and the digitization of entire industry sectors such as automotive and industrial. Technology tracker IHS Markit estimates chip design spending will top $300 billion in 2018 for the first time, up nearly $20 billion over last year. Annual spending will “remain ...Full article
System administrators and database administrators have different perspectives on high availability (HA). The differences can cause problems ranging from consternation and conflict to wasted investments and excessive downtime. While the differences are reconcilable, they are not trivial. For example, using Raw Device Mapping technology in VMware’s vSphere to create a high availability cluster makes it ...Full article
Istio, the “service mesh” intended to connect application components and thereby boost the capabilities of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator, has advanced over the past year as a way of managing increasingly popular micro-services. Partners Google Cloud, IBM (NYSE: IBM), ride sharer Lyft and Red Hat’s CoreOS unit along with other open source developers announced the ...Full article
China launched an aggressive AI strategy last year that “set a very ambitious goal for AI industry development in China between now and 2030,” according to Xiaomeng Lu, international public policy manager for technology consultant Access Partnership. Lu nevertheless stressed that institutional roadblocks remain, especially strict controls on access to government data that severely limit AI ...Full article
For 30+ years, we've had the notion of a data warehouse, a single, central store of vetted data that is used for authoritative analysis. But building the data warehouse is hard work – lots of discussion and negotiation on the right structure and meaning of the data, lots of technical heavy lifting to make the ...Full article
Public cloud market growth is a steamroller on steroids. It’s also an industry that, if not winner-take-all, is increasingly dominated by the top quartet of service providers. Second quarter data, released today by Synergy Research Group, Reno, NV, and confirming what other market watchers have reported of late, shows cloud infrastructure services spending jumped 50 ...Full article
Public cloud vendors are focusing their infrastructure upgrades on the growing number of memory-intensive enterprise workloads. Earlier this week, Google rolled out virtual machines that support persistent memory for in-memory workloads. Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) countered with a new “high frequency” instance generally available on its Elastic Compute Cloud. The cloud giant said mid-week ...Full article
There’s an institutionalized, seemingly intractable and ever widening gap in enterprise IT between data growth and HPDA’s (high performance data analytics) ability to access more than a small piece of it and convert it into “actionable insight.” Sadly, there’s plenty of life left in the trite, tiresome old truism about “drowning in data and starving ...Full article
Samsung, the South Korean electronics giant, is reportedly developing a new graphics processor and has hired a former Nvidia GPU architect to bring the chip to fruition. Jon Peddie, an industry analyst who tracks the graphics market, reported this week on his website that Chien-Ping Lu has been hired by Samsung to spearhead its GPU effort. ...Full article
Google continues to add GPU horsepower in tandem with its internally developed deep learning processors to its cloud platform with this week’s announcement that it will soon offer Nvidia’s Tesla P4 processors for AI inferencing workloads. Among many partnership announcements during Google’s annual cloud event, the search giant said it would be the first cloud ...Full article
Robotic process automation (RPA) — a close cousin of and a first step on the way to AI — is changing the way companies work. Enterprises look to RPA to automate legacy business processes. Instead of replacing human workers, RPA is enabling organizations and employees to focus on uniquely human tasks by eliminating rote, boring ...Full article
Responding to market forces that are driving the otherwise vibrant global electronics industry toward narrower computing applications and away from the next wave of innovation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is pouring $1.5 billion into “foundational enhancements” designed to jumpstart the post-Moore’s Law electronics industry. The five-year roadmap dubbed Electronic Resurgence Initiative (ERI) hits the ...Full article
Intel Corp. and SAP are joining forces with Google to offer cloud virtual machines supporting persistent memory for in-memory workloads running on the SAP HANA relational database manager. The partners announced the Google cloud virtual machines would support the upcoming release of SAP HANA workloads running on Intel’s Optane DC persistent memory. Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) ...Full article
We often hear that online retail is among the business sectors furthest along on its digital transformation and AI journeys. Overstock.com , the giant (2017 revenues: $1.75 billion) internet retailer known mostly for furniture and home decor, is a case in point. The Midvale, UT, company has built out a digitized ecommerce environment that captures ...Full article
Google and VMware are collaborating on a new cloud plug-in connecting a pair of VMware tools designed to enable provisioning of virtual machines and storage on the search giant’s cloud. The partners this week released a preview version of a Google cloud plug-in for VMware’s vRealize orchestrator and support for the public cloud on the ...Full article
Seeq Corp., a developer of analytics software for manufacturing and industrial Internet of Things applications, has raised an additional $23 million in a recent funding round that included the investment arms of Chevron and Siemens. The industrial analytics vendor said Wednesday (July 18) the Series B funding round was led by Altira Group along with ...Full article
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.AcceptRead More
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
Alex WoodieEditorial Director
Jaime HamptonManaging Editor
Ali AzharContributing Editor
Drew JollyContributing Editor
