Even as China signed an agreement with the U.S. this week billed as a step toward reducing trade tensions, it’s unlikely the signing ceremony heralds a new era of détente between the two economic, military and technological superpowers. Assuming the agreement brings calm to the US-China trade war, no doubt the geopolitical clash will continue ...Full article
Google Cloud bolstered its enterprise DevOps portfolio this week with its acquisition of AppSheet, a no-code application development platform. Terms of the deal including the purchase price were not disclosed. No-code platforms allow “citizen developers” and other business users to create enterprise applications without the need for high-end coding skills. The automation tools allow novice ...Full article
Previous attempts to apply AI to drug discovery have yielded mixed results. For example, IBM ended sales last year of its Watson AI software used by pharmaceutical firms for new drug discovery. Alternative approaches have since emerged. Insilico Medicine, developer of a drug discovery engine, said this week it will collaborate with Pfizer Inc. The ...Full article
The dizzying pace of technology innovation often fueled by the growing availability of computing horsepower is underscored by the race to develop unique designs and application that can be patented. Among the goals of many of the companies we track is building up their intellectual property portfolios to provide a steady stream of licensing revenue ...Full article
High performance storage specialist Quantum Corp. this morning announced an addition to its F-Series line of NVMe storage servers – the F1000 comes in at a lower price point than its F2000 counterpart announced at NAB last year while utilizing that appliance’s software-defined architecture designed for streaming performance and response times in “video and video-like ...Full article
Artificial intelligence was on the tip of the tongue this week at CES, the annual technology extravaganza formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show. From Samsung’s Neon avatars and LG’s smart washing machine, to Intel’s Tiger Lake processors and the gun-detecting PATSCAN, AI seemed to be everywhere. Samsung’s research subsidiary, STAR Labs, unveiled its latest ...Full article
The number of 5G wireless connections is forecast to soar 150 percent over the next five years as infrastructure rollouts gather momentum for connecting sensors and other edge devices. The forecast released this week by Juniper Research estimates the total number of 5G connections will jump from about 5 million subscribers in 2019 to a ...Full article
According to Accenture, 77 percent of smart devices include at least one AI feature. It is anticipated that by 2025 the global AI market will reach $60 billion. The growth of AI has created greater demand for this technology from consumers and organizations alike. Both are embracing AI technology and driving further innovation with their ...Full article
When it comes to new technology, it’s been said government initially stays uninvolved – then gets too involved. The White House’s guidelines for federal agencies on AI regulations, issued this week, can be viewed as a government still in the uninvolved stage. If companies pouring billions into AI look to the guidelines for insight regarding ...Full article
The shift to open networking platforms is getting another boost with a partnership between software vendor Cumulus Networks and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to provide storage networking frameworks in datacenters. The partners said this week that HPE’s (NYSE: HPE) StoreFabric Ethernet switches will run on Cumulus Network’s Linux and NetQ software. The latter is a network ...Full article
In this monthly feature, we'll keep you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires, and accolades. Here's the AI career news for early January: Dr. Alan Baratz D-Wave Systems Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Alan Baratz to the role of chief executive officer (CEO). ...Full article
Advances in AI and cloud technologies are helping health and pharmaceutical companies improve services, but they come with regulatory challenges. Let’s look at how smart companies are leveraging smart tech to gain a competitive advantage, and stay on the right side of the law, in 2020. We tend to think of technological advancements arising in ...Full article
As more enterprise users deploy Kubernetes as their preferred container orchestrator, momentum is building to lock down security on vulnerable hybrid cloud deployments. The latest step comes in the form of a runtime security tool dubbed Falco accepted this week by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a hosted development project. The group said ...Full article
VMware continues to move closer to Kubernetes-based containers for managing virtual machines and other cloud infrastructure, reflecting the growing consensus the cluster orchestrator represents a more agile form of virtualization. The server virtualization leader (NYSE: VMW) signaled its shift to Kubernetes last year with the launch of an initiative dubbed Project Pacific intended to upgrade ...Full article
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia has been granted unconditional approval by the European Union to acquire Israel networking company Mellanox Technologies, clearing a hurdle for the $6.8 billion deal, announced in March. The EU approval went through without Nvidia having to offer concessions. The European Commission concluded that “the proposed acquisition would raise no competition concerns, because the ...Full article
One decade passes away, another decade comes – and it makes people think. For starters, we think about what to call the decade coming to end: the “twenty-teens”, “twenty-tens”? Awkward to refer to, it's harder to classify. The 1920s were "Roaring," but how do you label a decade as polarized as our politics: globalism and ...Full article
The U.S. Energy Department’s research arm is leveraging machine learning technologies to simplify the design process for energy systems ranging from photovoltaics and wind turbines to aircraft engine compressors. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, last month announced 23 research contracts totaling $15 million to incorporate machine learning into energy product designs. The first-phase ...Full article
Nvidia launched a raft of new autonomous driving- and conversational AI-related products today at its GTC China Conference, along with a strategic relationship with Didi Chuxing (DiDi), a mobile transportation platform. The company introduced Drive AGX Orin, which Nvidia said is an advanced, software-defined platform for autonomous vehicles (AVs) and robots. Powered by a new ...Full article
The deployment of machine learning models in production is failing to keep pace with the everyday operations of hyper-scalers. Those scaling and deployment gaps are being addressed through collaborations and a new batch of DevOps tools tuned to scaling machine learning deployments. The latest initiative aimed at expanding the MLOps ecosystem comes via a series ...Full article
We all know today’s IT infrastructures are incredibly complex, and the expected increase in application demands and data growth will only exacerbate that complexity. It’s also fair to say that this trend is irreversible. This phenomenon is a natural outcome of forces such as the massive growth of e-commerce and associated customer expectations, hybrid-cloud adoption, an ...Full article
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