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 November: Peter Mertens Recogni announced that Peter Mertens joined its Board of Directors. Mertens has a 35-year career in the automotive industry, ...Full article
Microservices have evolved to the point where cloud-native development tools are now being referred to as Kubernetes-native—as in the de facto standard application container orchestrator. The reach of Kubernetes now extends to the Java stack used by developers pushing out cloud-native applications distributed via containers. To that end, a community led by IBM/Red Hat this ...Full article
MLPerf.org, the young AI-benchmarking consortium, has issued the first round of results for its inference test suite. Among organizations with submissions were Nvidia, Intel, Alibaba, Supermicro, Google, Huawei, Dell and others. Not bad considering the inference suite (v.5) itself was just introduced in June. Perhaps predictably, GPU powerhouse Nvidia quickly claimed early victory issuing a ...Full article
Enterprise infrastructure investments for training machine learning models have grown more than 50 percent annually over the past two years, and are expected to shortly surpass $10 billion, according to a new market forecast. Intersect360 Research notes that while machine learning has achieved “a very high growth stage,” automation technology covered under the rubric of ...Full article
Nvidia has launched what it claims to be the world’s smallest supercomputer, an addition to its Jetson product line with a credit card-sized (70x45mm) form factor delivering up to 21 trillion operations/second (TOPS) of throughput, according to the company. The Jetson Xavier NX module consumes as little as 10 watts of power, costs $399 and ...Full article
The framework for the next industrial phase dubbed Industry 4.0 is taking shape as cloud and networking vendors join forces to accelerate automation on the factory floor. The latest partnership includes Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), its former mobile phone unit turned infrastructure vendor. The partnership combines Nokia’s 5G network equipment with on-premise Azure ...Full article
If misery in modern life happens to be your field of interest, go visit a call center. In the cubicles, row on row, we observe underpaid, tedium-addled customer service agents processing a funereal procession of repetitive tasks while, very likely, daydreaming about doing something else for work; in the hot, noisy computer room we see ...Full article
The proliferation of connected devices and Internet of Things sensors is boosting a transformed datacenter market in which service providers are shifting operations closer to the network edge. That trend is influencing everything from network topologies to power management systems required for backup power at remotes sites. It is also expected to nearly quadruple an ...Full article
High performance storage vendor Qumulo today launched an updated line of distributed file storage solutions integrated with HPE’s high-end Apollo 4200 Gen 10 Servers. Qumulo, whose partnership with HPE began two years ago, said the combined solution “provides enterprise organizations scalable, software-defined file storage with deep data visibility into unstructured data workloads that scale-across on-prem, ...Full article
An open-source tool used to monitor and troubleshoot cloud-native services has joined the ranks of maturing platforms such as Kubernetes as microservices scale. Jaeger, a distributed tracing platform used to track the performance of transactions running on microservices, has “graduated” from incubator to production, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation announced this week. It becomes the ...Full article
Cloud computing has ushered in a digital transformation in the way applications are developed, deployed and operated. In the cloud-native era, applications are based on microservices and delivered via containers, enabling enterprises to continuously and efficiently update their apps while maintaining a seamless user experience. To manage their immense volumes of containers, companies large and ...Full article
MIT and IBM have released the results of an eight-year study casting light on the impact AI and machine learning have already had – never mind the impacts to come – on our jobs, our incomes, the kind of work we are more and less likely to do and the value our employers place on ...Full article
The combination of AI and analytics with Internet of Things initiatives is forging an emerging enterprise category dubbed AIoT operations. According to a global survey, most IoT initiatives are using some form of AI as operators leverage automation to keep pace with huge data volumes and high data frequency generated by connected devices. The vendor ...Full article
Cray, now owned by HPE, today introduced the ClusterStor E1000 storage platform, which leverages Cray software and mixes hard disk drives (HDD) and flash memory (SSD) to accommodate converged HPC-AI workloads at many scales. Cray described the new system as the final step in re-architecting its product portfolio for the exascale era. Cray also didn’t ...Full article
A potential interim step between conventional semiconductors and quantum devices has emerged, promising improved information processing schemes that outperform current electronic charge- and spin-based chip architectures. The emerging quantum process dubbed “valleytronics” focuses on low energy “valleys” or extremes in the electronic band structure of semiconductors. Those valleys of electrons can be used to encode, ...Full article
In a showdown between hyperscale giants, Microsoft was awarded the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract over co-finalist Amazon. Earlier this year, most observers of the closely watched competition for the 10-year deal had expected AWS to win – including companies like Oracle, which filed legal claims that the playing field was tipped in ...Full article
Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute have come up with a new way to scan software for costly errors and vulnerabilities, and do so without access to source code. The tool is also being touted as a way to evaluate the growing number of open-source products deployed by enterprise users. The vulnerability scanner developed by Fraunhofer ...Full article
Hyperscalers are the masters of the IT universe, gravitational centers of increasing pull in the emerging age of data-driven compute and AI. In the high-stakes, winner-take-all world of the hyperscale elite, 11 companies spent more than $1 billion apiece on IT infrastructure in 2018, three spent more than $5 billion and one, Google, broke the ...Full article
Datacenter operators increasingly turning to commodity hardware are embracing bare-metal provisioning of switching gear certified by the Open Compute Project, according to a quarterly market survey. IHS Markit reported this week that bare-metal switching gear based on OCP specifications are making steady headway in datacenters, outpacing legacy switching technologies during the second quarter of 2019. ...Full article
On opening day of this week’s AI World Conference today in Boston, the Object Management Group (OMG), an international technology standards organization, said it has begun work on a baseline of interoperability, interchange and other AI “foundational capabilities” in models, languages and data. The idea is free up technology vendors and end users from low-level interface ...Full article
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