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AI + IoT = AIoT, Multimodal Intelligence and Other Trends to Watch

AI + IoT = AIoT, Multimodal Intelligence and Other Trends to Watch

2019 was an interesting year for the technology industry – many technologies were hyped heading into the ...

Survey: AI Must Be a ‘Strategic Lever’

Survey: AI Must Be a ‘Strategic Lever’

Hyper-scalers are racing to deploy AI technologies. Meanwhile, other sectors such as finance, healthcare and transportation ramping ...

Container Storage Link Adds Persistence in a Flash

Container Storage Link Adds Persistence in a Flash

As application containers took off in the mid-2010s, persistent storage emerged as a key barrier to adoption. ...

Google Acquires No-Code Platform

Google Acquires No-Code Platform

Google Cloud bolstered its enterprise DevOps portfolio this week with its acquisition of AppSheet, a no-code application ...

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AI + IoT = AIoT, Multimodal Intelligence and Other Trends to Watch
January 17, 2020
2019 was an interesting year for the technology industry – many technologies were hyped heading into the year; however, their paths of adoption took different directions: Adoption of AI/ML continued to increase, with newer breakthroughs and areas of application – especially in biology, medicine and research. 5G, while discussed broadly by technology vendors and industry professionals, encountered a few ... Full article
Survey: AI Must Be a ‘Strategic Lever’
January 17, 2020
Hyper-scalers are racing to deploy AI technologies. Meanwhile, other sectors such as finance, healthcare and transportation ramping up AI initiatives are confronting challenges while considering precisely where automation technologies fit into individual company strategies. That along with lingering concerns about AI hype are among the key conclusions of the latest enterprise AI survey, this one released this week by ... Full article
Container Storage Link Adds Persistence in a Flash
January 16, 2020
As application containers took off in the mid-2010s, persistent storage emerged as a key barrier to adoption. With containers now entering the mainstream for handling machine and deep learning applications, more vendors are focusing on storage interfaces that can link huge data volumes along with flash memory to container orchestration platforms. Among them is VAST Data, which this week ... Full article
China’s Coming Crypto Yuan and the Digital Disruption of Banking, for Starters
January 16, 2020
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, the geopolitical clash will continue by other means. One area of ... Full article
Google Acquires No-Code Platform
January 15, 2020
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 developers to get applications ... Full article
Insilico, Pfizer Join AI Forces on Drug Discovery
January 15, 2020
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 partners said the pharmaceutical ... Full article
AI Was Everywhere at CES
January 13, 2020
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 AI project, called Neon. ... Full article
AI Is Changing Web Development
January 13, 2020
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 adoption. There is a ... Full article
Machine Learning, Clouds & Pills: Biopharma AI’s Big Impact
January 8, 2020
 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 response to needs, such ... Full article
Foresight for a Dawning Decade: The Heady Reality of AI’s ‘Chapter 2’
December 20, 2019
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 nationalism, free trade and ... Full article
Nvidia Launches Autonomous Vehicle, Conversational AI Tech at GTC China
December 18, 2019
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 SoC called Orin, the ... Full article
AIOps: A Holistic Approach to Data Center Monitoring & Management
December 16, 2019
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 increasingly mobile workforce and ... Full article
ANSYS, Azure Pair up for Digital Twin Cloud Offering
December 16, 2019
ANSYS, with its Twin Builder software, has teamed with Microsoft, and its Azure public cloud Digital Twins Platform, on a joint product strategy to take on the rapidly emerging digital twins market, which Gartner last year called a top 10 technology trend for 2019. Digital twins software constructs a virtual, multi-dimensional representations of a physical environment, process or machinery, ... Full article
Enterprise ML Moves Slowly Up the Value Chain
December 12, 2019
While developers are moving up the machine-learning learning curve, a vendor survey finds they still have a way to go in scaling ML deployments. Algorithmia’s annual survey of the state of enterprise machine learning technology released on Thursday (Dec. 12) did find an uptick in machine learning deployments over the past year. A modest 22 percent of companies surveyed ... Full article
Cisco Aims Chips, Optical Links at Next-Gen Internet
December 11, 2019
Cisco Systems unveiled its networking framework of the future this week aimed at scaling internet performance for emerging enterprise workloads like AI and machine learning along with network routers for Internet of Things and other 5G-driven applications and services. The networking giant (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced a programmable silicon architecture as the foundation of a framework that includes the “un-bundling” ... Full article
IBM Unveils Power9-based AI Supercomputer
December 10, 2019
Designed to push the frontiers of computing chip and systems performance optimized for AI workloads, an 8 petaflop IBM Power9-based supercomputer has been unveiled in upstate New York that will be used by IBM data and computer scientists, by academic researchers and by industrial and commercial end-users. Installed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center for Computational Innovations (CCI), the ... Full article
AI Career Notes: December 2019 Edition
December 9, 2019
In this monthly feature, we'll keep you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise A.I. community -- promotions, new hires, and accolades. Here's the A.I. career news for early December: Ari Berman BioTeam, Inc. promoted Ari Berman to chief executive officer. In his new role, Berman will expand the company's reach into the scientific and ... Full article
Kubernetes Gets a GPU Boost
December 9, 2019
An infrastructure vendor zeroing in on AI and machine learning workloads has added GPU support to a Kubernetes-based appliance designed to handle those emerging applications in containers while adding GPU horsepower to scale in-house workloads to the cloud. Diamanti, a five-year-old startup that recently closed a $35 million funding round, unveiled this week what it claims is the first ... Full article
Hyped on the Hype Cycle: Take These Steps Before Adopting Emerging Tech
December 9, 2019
Hype happens like a virus: We’re suddenly jammed into our seats and told to watch a new movie. Then afterward — often as soon as the lights go up — we become ourselves again and the virus is gone. Most of the time, hype is harmless: We’ve wasted time and a few dollars, but we’ll recover soon. But hype ... Full article
Doubts Surface in Open Source Survey
December 5, 2019
Open source software development is thriving, but a growing number of developers worry that momentum cannot be sustained as large corporations continue snapping up startups that helped fuel the movement. A report released this week also revealed concerns about a lack of diversity within the open source community. While an annual survey on the state of open source development ... Full article

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