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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Got GDPR Anxiety? Here Are 3 Must-Do’s
April 5th, 2018 Comments Off on Got GDPR Anxiety? Here Are 3 Must-Do’s
The tech community has been discussing European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as if it were a natural disaster, rather than a law. “Are you ready for GDPR?” say all emails from vendors hoping to milk the confusion. ...
3M Picks C3 IoT and Azure for AI / IoT Predictive Platform
April 4th, 2018 Comments Off on 3M Picks C3 IoT and Azure for AI / IoT Predictive Platform
C3 IoT continued its impressive record of customer wins with today’s announcement that the company has landed a multi-year contract with 3M (NYSE:MMM) to deliver AI-based applications, starting with predictive healthcare and supply chain analytics and expanding to additional ...
Nvidia Inception Awards: AI Start-ups Pushing Innovation
March 29th, 2018 Comments Off on Nvidia Inception Awards: AI Start-ups Pushing Innovation
We have seen the future, it was on display at Nvidia’s GTC 2018 conference in San Jose this week, and if this stuff works*, man, the future will be interesting: 50,000-square-foot retail stores with few employees and no exasperating ...
Nvidia Launches Volta-based Quadro GPU with RTX for Real-Time Ray Tracing
March 27th, 2018 Comments Off on Nvidia Launches Volta-based Quadro GPU with RTX for Real-Time Ray Tracing
At a new product extravaganza this morning during its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled the new Volta-based Quadro GV100 with RTX technology, positioning the pairing as a transformative engine for real-time ray tracing, offering "the biggest ...
Metadata is the New Data: The Power of Metadata Visualization
March 26th, 2018 Comments Off on Metadata is the New Data: The Power of Metadata Visualization
Organizing data is a challenge. The digital universe, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), doubles every two years. Based on current projections, it’s expected to reach 44 trillion gigabytes in 2020.1 And recent updates by IDC predict it will ...
Predictive Analytics and Human Trafficking: ‘We Will Never Rescue Our Way out of this Crime’
March 24th, 2018 Comments Off on Predictive Analytics and Human Trafficking: ‘We Will Never Rescue Our Way out of this Crime’
In the annals of venality, human trafficking has metastasized into one of the most horrific organized crimes against humanity since the Holocaust. It’s estimated that 40 million people, 80 percent of them girls and women, are currently ensnared in ...
Fake Artificial Intelligence vs. the Real Thing – How to Tell the Difference
March 23rd, 2018 Comments Off on Fake Artificial Intelligence vs. the Real Thing – How to Tell the Difference
When ‘Willy the Wonder-Chicken’ defeated famed behavior psychologist B.F. Skinner at Tic-Tac-Toe in 19791, who would’ve imagined tomorrow’s McNugget would become a foot soldier in the battle between artificial intelligence and carnival barkers. Today, we suffer a never-ending stream ...
Power9 and the ‘D Word’: IBM Touts OpenPOWER Ecosystem, Announces New Customers, Products for AI and Hyperscale Datacenters
March 20th, 2018 Comments Off on Power9 and the ‘D Word’: IBM Touts OpenPOWER Ecosystem, Announces New Customers, Products for AI and Hyperscale Datacenters
At SC17 in Denver four months ago, Ken King, GM, OpenPOWER, IBM Systems Group, told a somewhat jaundiced trio of journalists that 2018 would, finally, after several years of expectations, be the year OpenPOWER and IBM’s POWER processor makes ...
When Buying HCI, Avoid These 3 Mistakes
March 19th, 2018 Comments Off on When Buying HCI, Avoid These 3 Mistakes
The interest in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances is widespread, replacing, and in some sense displacing, the hype around all-flash arrays as “the” hot topic in previous years. Organizations are turning to the HCI model due to one key benefit: ...
Quantum Computing vs. Our ‘Caveman Newtonian Brain’: Why Quantum Is So Hard
March 15th, 2018 Comments Off on Quantum Computing vs. Our ‘Caveman Newtonian Brain’: Why Quantum Is So Hard
Quantum is coming. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon enough*. Within 10 to 12 years, we’re told, special-purpose quantum systems (see related story: Hyperion on the Emergence of the Quantum Computing Ecosystem) will enter the commercial realm. ...