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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Intel Launches Silicon Photonics Chip, Previews Next-Gen Phi for AI
August 19th, 2016 Comments Off on Intel Launches Silicon Photonics Chip, Previews Next-Gen Phi for AI
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager Diane Bryant announced the launch of Intel’s Silicon Photonics product line and teased a brand-new Phi product, codenamed “Knights Mill,” aimed at ...
Enterprise Systems Integration: Snapping Together Multiple Applications and Data Sources
August 18th, 2016 Comments Off on Enterprise Systems Integration: Snapping Together Multiple Applications and Data Sources
As enterprise systems grow into agglomerations of cloud applications and big data sources spread across hybrid and even multi-cloud environments, the task of extracting data from many sources and utilizing it within integrated applications consumes increasing time and energy ...
3 Ways Machine Learning Delivers Better Enterprise Customer Care
August 18th, 2016 Comments Off on 3 Ways Machine Learning Delivers Better Enterprise Customer Care
When it comes to enterprise-level customer care, machine learning enables Virtual Assistant solutions to automate tasks that used to require a live agent: password resets; address and complex information collection; even sales support. Integrating machine learning into customer care ...
New All-Flash from Nimbus, Storage-Class Memory from Netlist
August 10th, 2016 Comments Off on New All-Flash from Nimbus, Storage-Class Memory from Netlist
Nimbus Data and Netlist unveiled new storage and memory products of major potential at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara this week. Nimbus launched an all-flash platform for cloud and big data, called ExaFlash, that company CEO and ...
Public Cloud-based Compliance Storage: How to Do It Right
August 10th, 2016 (1)
Electronic disk storage became popular in the early 2000’s for archive and compliance storage. SEC Rule 17a-4 is the federal regulation that requires broker-dealers and other regulated companies to retain business-related communications. It requires that records be preserved in ...
5 Big Trends Driving the Rush to the Cloud
August 8th, 2016 Comments Off on 5 Big Trends Driving the Rush to the Cloud
Recent cloud statistics and predictions report that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow from $70 billion in 2015 to more than $141 billion in 2019. Those numbers are positive, indicating that earlier concerns around reliability and security ...
Taking Aim at Retail’s $40B Annual Non-Scanning Losses
August 5th, 2016 Comments Off on Taking Aim at Retail’s $40B Annual Non-Scanning Losses
By hook, crook, negligence or equipment malfunction, $40 billion worth of goods pass through checkout lanes at retail stores around the world each year without being scanned. Be it the fault of consumers (using self-checkout machines) or employees using ...
Dubai Police Use Real-time Image Processing in Traffic to Track Down Scofflaws, Terrorists
August 3rd, 2016 Comments Off on Dubai Police Use Real-time Image Processing in Traffic to Track Down Scofflaws, Terrorists
When people drive, their cars identify who they are. Or who they might be. This includes people “of interest” to police: drivers with expired licenses or unpaid fines, with outstanding arrest warrants, who may be sought in a criminal ...
Software-Defined Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure: 3 Use Cases
August 3rd, 2016 (1)
The data center has become associated with complexity as traditional storage is struggling to keep pace with workload demands. To address these challenges, industry experts anticipate Software Defined Storage (SDS) and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will be significant areas for ...
The Open Source World of Today: How We Got Here
August 2nd, 2016 (1)
Is the closed-source system on its last legs? Maybe not just yet, but we’re pretty close to it. Consider the phenomenal growth in the last five years of new open source technologies and processes, such as containers, Hadoop and ...