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Alex Woodie

Alex Woodie has written about IT as a technology journalist for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience from the IBM midrange marketplace, including topics such as servers, ERP applications, programming, databases, security, high availability, storage, business intelligence, cloud, and mobile enablement. He resides in the San Diego area.

Databricks on Mission to Build First Enterprise AI Platform
December 3rd, 2019 Comments Off on Databricks on Mission to Build First Enterprise AI Platform
Ali Ghodsi might have one of the best jobs in technology right now. As the CEO of Databricks, Ghodsi just completed an oversubscribed $400 million round of funding that gave the company a $6.2 billion valuation. Better still, Ghodsi ...

H2O.ai: $72.5M Funding Round for AI Democratization
August 20th, 2019 Comments Off on H2O.ai: $72.5M Funding Round for AI Democratization
Every company should become an AI company, according to Sri Ambati, founder and CEO of H2O.ai. With $72.5 million in additional funding announced today and a new release of its autoML solution, Driverless AI, Ambati is making the case ...

Intel Charges Spark Workloads with Optane Persistent Memory
July 30th, 2019 Comments Off on Intel Charges Spark Workloads with Optane Persistent Memory
Intel didn’t wow chip lovers earlier this year with the launch of its 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors “Cascade Lake” processors, which are based on the same 14nm process as the first generation processors. But the launch also ...

HPE Pins AI Strategy on Pay-as-You-Go Consumption Model
June 25th, 2019 Comments Off on HPE Pins AI Strategy on Pay-as-You-Go Consumption Model
HPE, like all the system vendors, has big plans to sell massive amounts of compute capability to companies to run machine learning and deep learning workloads that help transform their businesses. But the tech firm is taking a slightly ...

PayPal Feeds the DL Beast with Vault of Fraud Data
June 4th, 2019 Comments Off on PayPal Feeds the DL Beast with Vault of Fraud Data
PayPal is no stranger to fraud. As one of the Internet’s first online payment services, PayPal has been exposed to every type of wire fraud imaginable (and some beyond imagination). Sometimes the fraudsters had the upper hand, but now, ...

VC Investment in AI Slows, But Don’t Expect Another AI Winter Just Yet
May 30th, 2019 Comments Off on VC Investment in AI Slows, But Don’t Expect Another AI Winter Just Yet
AI firms attracted a record $9.33 billion in investments from venture capital firms in 2018, nearly a 10 percent increase from 2017. So far this year, AI funding has dipped a bit, but that doesn’t mean another AI winter ...

‘Data Scientist’ Title Evolving Into New Thing
April 17th, 2019 Comments Off on ‘Data Scientist’ Title Evolving Into New Thing
Who is a data scientist, and what do they do? It’s a worthy question, and one that’s been asked an untold number of times over the years. But now it appears the job definition of the data scientist is ...

Data Science a New Pillar of the Scientific Method – Nvidia
March 22nd, 2019 Comments Off on Data Science a New Pillar of the Scientific Method – Nvidia
We already knew that GPUs are useful for lots of things besides making Fortnite uncomfortably realistic. All the biggest supercomputers in the world use GPUs to accelerate math, and more recently they’ve been used to power deep neural networks ...

Intel’s Nauta, a Deep Learning Framework for Containerized Clusters
January 24th, 2019 Comments Off on Intel’s Nauta, a Deep Learning Framework for Containerized Clusters
Intel today unveiled Nauta, a new distributed computing framework for running deep learning models in Kubernetes and Docker-based environments. The chip giant says Nauta will make it easier for data scientists to develop, train, and deploy deep learning workloads ...

IBM Bolsters Storage for AI, De-Dupe and Cloud DR
May 11th, 2018 Comments Off on IBM Bolsters Storage for AI, De-Dupe and Cloud DR
IBM made several announcements today designed to help customers get more out of their existing storage infrastructure, including IBM Storwize and FlashSystem arrays, the SAN Volume Controller (SVC) software-defined storage product, and even non-IBM arrays from Dell EMC and HPE that IBM storage software ...
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