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Author Archives: Doug Black
Doug Black
Foresight for a Dawning Decade: The Heady Reality of AI’s ‘Chapter 2’
December 20th, 2019 Comments Off on Foresight for a Dawning Decade: The Heady Reality of AI’s ‘Chapter 2’
One decade passes away, another decade comes – and it makes people think. For starters, we think about what to call the decade coming to end: the “twenty-teens”, “twenty-tens”? Awkward to refer to, it's harder to classify. The 1920s ...
Nvidia Launches Autonomous Vehicle, Conversational AI Tech at GTC China
December 18th, 2019 Comments Off on Nvidia Launches Autonomous Vehicle, Conversational AI Tech at GTC China
Nvidia launched a raft of new autonomous driving- and conversational AI-related products today at its GTC China Conference, along with a strategic relationship with Didi Chuxing (DiDi), a mobile transportation platform. The company introduced Drive AGX Orin, which Nvidia ...
AIOps: A Holistic Approach to Data Center Monitoring & Management
December 16th, 2019 Comments Off on AIOps: A Holistic Approach to Data Center Monitoring & Management
We all know today’s IT infrastructures are incredibly complex, and the expected increase in application demands and data growth will only exacerbate that complexity. It’s also fair to say that this trend is irreversible. This phenomenon is a natural outcome ...
ANSYS, Azure Pair up for Digital Twin Cloud Offering
December 16th, 2019 Comments Off on ANSYS, Azure Pair up for Digital Twin Cloud Offering
ANSYS, with its Twin Builder software, has teamed with Microsoft, and its Azure public cloud Digital Twins Platform, on a joint product strategy to take on the rapidly emerging digital twins market, which Gartner last year called a top ...
More Management Change at Intel as Swan Works to ‘Destroy’ CPU Focus
December 12th, 2019 Comments Off on More Management Change at Intel as Swan Works to ‘Destroy’ CPU Focus
Change within Intel’s upper management – and to its company mission – has continued as a published report has disclosed that chip technology heavyweight Gary Patton, GlobalFoundries’ CTO and R&D SVP as well as former IBM VP of semiconductor ...
IBM Unveils Power9-based AI Supercomputer
December 10th, 2019 Comments Off on IBM Unveils Power9-based AI Supercomputer
Designed to push the frontiers of computing chip and systems performance optimized for AI workloads, an 8 petaflop IBM Power9-based supercomputer has been unveiled in upstate New York that will be used by IBM data and computer scientists, by ...
Hyped on the Hype Cycle: Take These Steps Before Adopting Emerging Tech
December 9th, 2019 Comments Off on Hyped on the Hype Cycle: Take These Steps Before Adopting Emerging Tech
Hype happens like a virus: We’re suddenly jammed into our seats and told to watch a new movie. Then afterward — often as soon as the lights go up — we become ourselves again and the virus is gone. ...
AWS’s Web-based IDE for ML Development: SageMaker Studio
December 4th, 2019 Comments Off on AWS’s Web-based IDE for ML Development: SageMaker Studio
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle – they’ll all vying to become the dominant force of gravity in the public cloud services market, and among the most fiercely fought over areas of cloud leadership is AI/machine learning enablement. ...
New Chips from AWS: Arm-based General Purpose and ML Inference
December 3rd, 2019 Comments Off on New Chips from AWS: Arm-based General Purpose and ML Inference
The “x86 Big Bang,” in which market dominance of the venerable Intel CPU has exploded into fragments of processor options suited to varying workloads, has now encompassed CPUs offered by the leading public cloud services provider, AWS, which today ...
What to Ask When Implementing Machine Learning
December 2nd, 2019 Comments Off on What to Ask When Implementing Machine Learning
Successfully operationalizing machine learning models in production environments can be incredibly difficult, as the industry has already seen. In fact, Gartner has predicted 85 percent of AI projects in the next few years will fail to produce results. So ...