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4IR: The Transformative Power of IoT and GIS
Society is at an interesting inflection point as the combination of big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) come together in what some are hailing as ...Full Article
IBM Adds V100 GPUs to IBM Cloud; Targets AI, HPC
IBM today announced availability of Nvidia V100 GPUs in the IBM Cloud. The move keeps pace with Amazon and Microsoft Azure which also offer V100s and is more evidence ...Full Article
Red Hat Buys Container Startup CoreOS
Red Hat is expanding its push into the nascent micro-services and container orchestration sector with the acquisition of plucky startup CoreOS. The acquisition announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) is valued ...Full Article
Rumors Swirl of Dell-VMware ‘Reverse-Merger’
Just days after reports surfaced of a major management overhaul at Dell EMC, this week new reports emerged that Dell Technologies – the umbrella organization that encompasses a raft ...Full Article
How to Deceive Cyber Deceivers
Since 2014, internal and external cyber-attacks have accelerated and there is evidence that these assailants are penetrating traditional defenses at an increasing rate. Today’s security technologies seek primarily to ...Full Article
Management Shakeup at Dell EMC Designed to Streamline Systems Development, Delivery
Reverberations from Dell’s acquisition of EMC in October 2015 – at $67 billion, the biggest in the history of the technology industry – have extended into 2018 with the ...Full Article
AI-Employee Pairing: A Marriage Made in Workforce Heaven?
AI-phobia, particularly the fear that intelligent machines will destroy jobs, is firmly rooted in a portion of the general public. By contrast, most business leaders are eager to embrace ...Full Article
Eni Takes the Lead in Industrial Supercomputing
No sooner had one system, used by BP, been declared the most powerful supercomputer in the industrial sphere than it quickly has been displaced. Last Thursday (Jan. 18) it ...Full Article
‘What If’ Cloud Disaster Scenarios: Risks and Damages
Like over-reliance on a single food source (potatoes, Ireland, 1845) or a single energy source (OPEC oil, United States and other industrialized countries, 1973), the rapidly growing global adoption ...Full Article
Machine Learning Infrastructures Require Scale to Spare
Used across a wide range of processes to improve or replace human input, machine learning is attractive because it is able to addresses problems never before tackled due to ...Full Article
