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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.

Building Your GenAI Dream Team

November 28th, 2024 Comments Off

So the decision has been made to upgrade your business using generative AI technology. Great! But now comes the hard part: Figuring out how to transform that aspiration into action, and it all starts with people. The first move ...

MinIO Pivots to AI with Launch of AIStore

November 14th, 2024 Comments Off

MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it’s been adopted to store data for a wide range of applications. But with the rapid ...

WEKA Keeps GPUs Fed with Speedy New Appliances

November 6th, 2024 Comments Off

GPUs have an insatiable desire for data, and keeping those processors fed can be a challenge. That’s one of the big reasons that WEKA launched a new line of data storage appliances last week that can move data at ...

OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data

November 1st, 2024 Comments Off

The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data leaves a gap that eventually ...

Nvidia Debuts Enterprise Reference Architectures to Build AI Factories

October 30th, 2024 Comments Off

The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable manner, GPU giant Nvidia and several server partners have borrowed ...

AI Has a Data Problem, Appen Report Says

October 25th, 2024 Comments Off

AI may be a priority at American companies, but the difficulty in managing data and obtaining high quality data to train AI models is becoming a bigger hurdle to achieving AI aspirations, according to Appen’s State of AI in ...

MinIO Debuts DataPod, a Reference Architecture for Exascale AI Storage

August 7th, 2024 Comments Off

The number of companies planning to store an exabyte of data or more is skyrocketing, thanks to the AI revolution. To help streamline the storage buildouts and calm queasy CFO stomachs, MinIO last week proposed a reference architecture for ...

Yes, Big Data Is Still a Thing (It Never Really Went Away)

July 8th, 2024 Comments Off

A funny thing happened on the way to the AI promised land: People realized they need data. In fact, they realized they need large quantities of a wide variety of data, and that it would be better if it ...

AI Ethics and Governance In the Crosshairs Following GenAI Incidents

March 6th, 2024 Comments Off

Week after week, we express amazement at the progress of AI. At times, it feels as though we’re on the cusp of witnessing something truly revolutionary (singularity, anyone?). But when AI models do something unexpected or bad and the ...

Leveraging GenAI and LLMs in Financial Services

February 28th, 2024 Comments Off

Data and large language models (LLMs) can save banks and other financial services millions by enhancing automation, efficiency, accuracy, and more. McKinsey reports that the productivity lift from generative AI can lead to an increase of 3-5% of annual revenue in ...