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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.

Managing the Data Management Maze in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments

May 27th, 2020 Comments Off

If your company is like most, it has multi-cloud or hybrid cloud aspirations. But how do you manage all your data in a secure and cohesive manner when it’s spread across multiple systems and locations? That’s a topic that ...

3 Tricks to Magnify Small Data for Deep Learning

March 11th, 2020 Comments Off

It’s no secret that deep learning lets data science practitioners reach new levels of accuracy with predictive models. However, one of the drawbacks of deep learning is it typically requires huge data sets (not to mention big clusters). But ...

HPE Ships Container Platform with Kubernetes and MapR File System on Board

March 10th, 2020 Comments Off

HPE today announced the general availability of the HPE Container Platform, its new Kubernetes-based offering for running applications in cloud-native Docker containers. The offering is based on technology acquired from BlueData. But in its latest incarnation, in addition to ...

Coronavirus Canceling Tech Conferences

March 2nd, 2020 Comments Off

This story includes new information since it was first published on March 2. We will continue to update the article as the status of conferences changes. Several conferences scheduled to take place in the coming weeks, including Nvidia’s GPU ...

AI Was Everywhere at CES

January 13th, 2020 Comments Off

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 ...

Databricks on Mission to Build First Enterprise AI Platform

December 3rd, 2019 Comments Off

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

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

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

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

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, ...