Tabor Communications Announces Rebranding of EnterpriseTech: EnterpriseAI

March 19, 2019(0)

Tabor Communications, publisher of high performance technology publications HPCwire, Datanami and EnterpriseTech, has announced that EnterpriseTech will be re-branded as EnterpriseAI. The new name reflects the publication’s increased focus on AI in recent years and increased interest in AI, machine learning, deep learning, robotics and other AI-related technologies among enterprise IT strategists. “EnterpriseTech, focused since its founding on enterprise ... Full article

At GTC: Nvidia Expands Scope of Its AI and Data Center Ecosystem

March 19, 2019(0)

In the high-stakes race to provide the AI life-cycle solution of choice, three of the biggest horses in the field are IBM, Intel and Nvidia. While the latter is only a fraction of the size of its two bigger rivals, and has been in business for only a fraction of the time, Nvidia continues to impress with an expanding ... Full article

Guidelines for Getting Going with AI and Advanced Analytics

March 15, 2019(0)

These are exciting times for anyone yearning to drive significant business value from masses of data collected on the cloud. We finally have the processing power, software frameworks and appetite of the masses to conduct most of their daily transactions on the internet. But there are pitfalls to beware of when using AI to extract full value from data. ... Full article

NASA Simulator Shapes Orion Spacecraft Design

March 15, 2019(0)

NASA is using flow simulations running on its Pleiades supercomputer to help design the agency’s next manned spacecraft, Orion. Crew safety is paramount, so NASA engineers are using the HPC cluster to simulate and visualize Orion’s launch abort system that would carry the spacecraft away from its booster during a launch pad or ascent abort. The flow simulations also ... Full article

Optimizing Container Spend: 5 Recommendations

March 13, 2019(0)

As container technology moves into the mainstream, users are concerned about the next step: container optimization. Typically, conversations with customers focus on production environments., but recently they’ve become more focused on how to optimize container spending. Kubernetes – which seems to be the most popular of container services among our customer base – does allow for several ways to optimize for ... Full article

AI Fear Factor: White Collar Jobs in Crosshairs, Cash-free Retail Banned, Breaking up the FAANGS

March 8, 2019(0)

Though in its infancy, AI already is powerful – or potentially powerful – enough to have raised not only public awareness but also anxiety, spurring responses from policy makers, politicians and public intellectuals concerned about those who could be hurt or left behind by oncoming AI omnipresence. For AI-related technology companies, the risk in all this is regulatory intervention ... Full article

Malware Goes ‘Polymorphic’

March 1, 2019(0)

Malware is evolving, appearing in many forms as malicious code infiltrates computing platforms under many guises. Security experts refer to this chameleon-like malware as “polymorphic code,” and one researcher using a cloud-based, machine-learning platform to identify security threats found that the vast majority of malware is polymorphic. In an annual threat assessment. released this week, cybersecurity specialist Webroot reported ... Full article

Cloud Giants Launch Kubernetes Hub

February 28, 2019(0)

The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to expand with the formation of a “operators’ hub” that serves as a public registry for finding Kubernetes-native services. OperatorHub.io was launched this week by Red Hat in collaboration with public cloud leaders Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN), Google Cloud and Microsoft. Originally developed in 2016 by Red Hat’s (NYSE: RHT) CoreOS unit, a Kubernetes Operator is ... Full article

Google, DeepMind Target Machine Learning at Wind Energy

February 27, 2019(0)

Wind energy adoption is further along than you might think: Iowa, for example, is expected to generate about half its electrical power from wind within a few years; in total, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, about 90 gigawatts of wind power has been installed nationwide. It’s not just plentiful wind but also wind consistency that’s a prime ... Full article

Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey

February 26, 2019(0)

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” intones the ancient Chinese proverb, and it can be applied to enterprise AI journeys. But what’s the right first step? And what steps should be taken after that? This was the big topic of conversation at IBM’s recent Think conference, an enormous industry confab that took over several ... Full article

Google Shifts Kubernetes Focus to Datacenters

February 26, 2019(0)

Google has released a beta version of its cloud platform the incorporates Kubernetes to help build and manage services in hybrid deployments with a particular emphasis on in-house services. The Cloud Services Platform is built on top of its Kubernetes Engine and includes an on-premises version of the cluster orchestrator for managing applications within a customer’s own datacenter, including ... Full article

You Already Asked Me That!: Pre-Trained AI Answers Employee Questions – Over and Over and….

February 22, 2019(0)

Out of the box, AI is a tabula rasa, unknowing as a babe unborn. Only after laborious and data-intensive training by data scientists can AI do anything. But what if AI came pre-loaded with specialized knowledge covering 60 or 70 percent of the training and development needed for its assigned task? That’s the idea behind Espressive, Inc.'s natural language ... Full article

JFrog Bolsters ‘Assembly Line’ with DevOps Deal

February 21, 2019(0)

As enterprise demand grows for cloud-native and container-based developer tools, established players are beginning to snap up startups spawned by the transition to micro-services and application containers. The latest example comes from DevOps vendor JFrog, which this week announced its acquisition of Shippable, the Seattle-based startup founded in 2013 that specializes in accelerated code development and delivery of enterprise ... Full article

Transforming Your IT ‘Home’ while Preserving Legacy Investments

February 20, 2019(0)

Sooner or later, every home needs updating. Styles come and go, needs evolve, core attributes come to the end of their lifecycle. But tearing down the house, or taking it back to the studs, usually isn’t the right approach. This may be because of the expense involved, but more often, the owner determines a complete overhaul isn’t required. In ... Full article

Machine Learning Fuels Scientific Skepticism

February 19, 2019(0)

Scientists are raising red flags about the accuracy and reproducibility of conclusions drawn by machine learning frameworks. Among the remedies are developing new ML systems that can question their own predictions, show their work and reproduce results. Concerns about the efficacy of early machine learning predictions in disciplines ranging from astronomy to medicine were noted by Rice University statistician ... Full article

What Will IBM’s AI Debater Learn from Its Loss?

February 14, 2019(0)

The utility of IBM’s latest man-versus-machine gambit is debatable. At the very least its Project Debater got us thinking about the potential uses of artificial intelligence as a way of helping humans sift through all the noise, to make sense of information, misinformation and, increasingly via the hijacking of social media, disinformation. There have been other (fictional) debates between humans ... Full article

IBM Extends $3B Cloud Streak, Signs Santander to 5-Year Deal

February 13, 2019(0)

IBM continued to make inroads into the big bank sector, announcing this morning at its annual Think conference in San Francisco that Banco Santander, the fifth largest bank in Europe with approximately US$1.4 trillion in total assets (as of 2017), has signed a $700 million, five-year global technology digital transformation agreement focused around implementing the bank’s hybrid cloud strategy. ... Full article

Power Couple: IBM Joins PowerAI Hardware with Watson; Launches Multi-Hybrid AI Services

February 12, 2019(0)

As IBM kicked off its annual Think conference, a high-production extravaganza this week in San Francisco, the company this morning made a series of AI-related announcements, including the merging of its PowerAI integrated CPU-GPU server line with its cognitive computing flagship IBM Watson, to create what it calls the Watson Machine Learning Accelerator (WML Accelerator), which Big Blue claims ... Full article

White House Launches AI Initiative

February 11, 2019(0)

A Trump administration AI initiative would prioritize federal R&D investments in machine intelligence as a way boosting U.S. economic and national security. The “American AI Initiative” launched via executive order on Monday (Feb. 11) seeks to align early AI investments by science and technology agencies, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), ... Full article

Banking Sector Embraces Multi-Cloud

February 7, 2019(0)

The financial services sector tends to be a bellwether for early adoption of disruptive technologies. For example, financial services giant Goldman Sachs played a key role in forging an application container specification in 2015 as the transformative framework was just gathering momentum. A new study commissioned by software vendor Canonical and released this week finds that the financial services sector ... Full article

Tabor Communications Announces Rebranding of EnterpriseTech: EnterpriseAI

At GTC: Nvidia Expands Scope of Its AI and Data Center Ecosystem

NASA Simulator Shapes Orion Spacecraft Design

Optimizing Container Spend: 5 Recommendations

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