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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.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 ...
DHL Using AI to Overhaul Logistics
April 21st, 2018 Comments Off on DHL Using AI to Overhaul Logistics
What do semi-autonomous truck platoons, chat-bots, and fraud detection cameras have in common? They’re all part of a big plan that DHL unveiled yesterday to remake itself with artificial intelligence. DHL is investing millions to take advantage of recent ...
Nvidia To Use Virtual Reality for Autonomous Vehicle Testing
March 28th, 2018 Comments Off on Nvidia To Use Virtual Reality for Autonomous Vehicle Testing
Nvidia today revealed how it’s planning to use virtual reality technology to accelerate the testing of autonomous vehicles. The new offering, dubbed Drive Constellation, could dramatically improve the capability to test certain driving conditions, such as snow or blinding ...
Inside JetBlue’s Silo-Busting Customer 360 Initiative
November 6th, 2017 Comments Off on Inside JetBlue’s Silo-Busting Customer 360 Initiative
Who are you when you fly? It may sound like a silly question, but airlines find that it’s remarkably difficult to get a clear answer in real time. It’s also at the center of a new silo-busting Customer 360 ...
Challengers Arise to S3 Storage Dominance
September 21st, 2017 Comments Off on Challengers Arise to S3 Storage Dominance
When it comes to storing data, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a runaway success. With trillions of files under management spanning many exabytes worth of data, S3 is the largest digital storage system in the known universe. But ...
TigerGraph Emerges with Native Parallel Graph Database
September 20th, 2017 Comments Off on TigerGraph Emerges with Native Parallel Graph Database
A startup named TigerGraph emerged from stealth today with a new native parallel graph database that its founder thinks can shake up the analytics market. With $31 million in venture funding and several high-profile customers, he might just be ...