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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Digital Platform for Health Care Industry Coming from Partners and Persistent
April 28th, 2017 Comments Off on Digital Platform for Health Care Industry Coming from Partners and Persistent
Partners HealthCare and Persistent Systems have announced a collaboration that has the earmarks of a shared-resource industry cloud (aka, vertical cloud) – what the companies describe as an industry-wide open-source platform for knowledge exchange across health care providers and ...
TCP/IP Outdated for Big Data Transport, Quiet Company Says
April 26th, 2017 Comments Off on TCP/IP Outdated for Big Data Transport, Quiet Company Says
In network technology circles there’s a joke about “never underestimating the bandwidth capacity of a station wagon full of tapes driving down the highway.” In the same vein, at re:Invent last fall, Amazon Web Services announced with fanfare – ...
AI Translation of Online Sarcasm for Sales Research. No Kidding
April 25th, 2017 Comments Off on AI Translation of Online Sarcasm for Sales Research. No Kidding
“I don’t hate Mondays at all.” “This sugar-free, gluten-free quinoa cake is exactly what I wanted for dessert.” “I am totally happy skipping my vacation to work a few extra hours for free.” Sarcasm like this is commonplace in ...
Future View of HPC on Wall Street: Machine-Time Analytics
April 22nd, 2017 Comments Off on Future View of HPC on Wall Street: Machine-Time Analytics
We’ve all heard futuristic debates about artificial intelligence that are, by turn, alarming or optimistic. One side portrays a dystopian, tech-noir world where machines have grown so smart and so fast that we become relatively unintelligent, obsolete and unemployed. ...
Machine Learning Takes Aim at Digital Transformation Drudgery
April 20th, 2017 Comments Off on Machine Learning Takes Aim at Digital Transformation Drudgery
There’s a paradox in the world of digital transformation: the goal is hyper-acceleration of applications and automation of processes across the enterprise through advanced technologies, yet creating sleek new data and process flows typically condemns the developer to a ...
Lighten ‘Data Gravity,’ Ease Public Cloud Data Transfer for Analytics Workloads
April 20th, 2017 Comments Off on Lighten ‘Data Gravity,’ Ease Public Cloud Data Transfer for Analytics Workloads
Big data is opening a lot of doors for companies, providing real insights for those that want to understand their customers better and identify new products and services to offer. But big data has a big problem: managing and ...
Forrester: Businesses Beginning to Jump on AI Bandwagon, but Barriers Abound
April 13th, 2017 Comments Off on Forrester: Businesses Beginning to Jump on AI Bandwagon, but Barriers Abound
The state of AI today reminds us of the old observation about teenagers and sex: there’s more curiosity than knowledge, more talk than action, more failed attempts than actual achievement. Also, it’s been around a long time, but each ...
Collaborative Cloud under Development for Manufacturers in Europe
April 13th, 2017 (1)
Calling itself the first collaborative cloud-based platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry, the Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET) consortium was announced today in Europe. C2NET has the characteristics of an “industry cloud,” a trend ...
Is Scale-Up Your Best Scale-Out Option?
April 13th, 2017 Comments Off on Is Scale-Up Your Best Scale-Out Option?
Looking at the industry today, you’d think scale-out architectures are the only way to deliver application performance and availability at low-cost. Major technology companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook, use scale out, so it must be the right ...
DDN Claims Faster Object Storage ‘Cross-Region’ S3 Connectivity than AWS
April 11th, 2017 Comments Off on DDN Claims Faster Object Storage ‘Cross-Region’ S3 Connectivity than AWS
Advanced-scale storage specialist DataDirect Networks (DDN), whose solutions populate the upper-rung of the Top500 supercomputing list, today announced new “cross-region” features to its WOS object storage platform that support multi-site AWS connectivity as well as new data protection and ...