IBM Posts Positive Earnings; ‘Strategic Imperatives’ Above 50% of Business
For IBM watchers at the advanced scale/HPC/open source/cloud/AI-related end of the technology industry, Big Blue’s release late yesterday of Q4 and 2018 earnings painted a positive picture around the ...Full Article
Data Science in a Box: Tools Attack Critical Skills Shortage
Begging forgiveness for the expression of antiquated gender attitudes, we share a passage from Pride & Prejudice (1813): “….no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly ...Full Article
The Surge in Oil & Gas Supercomputing
Supercomputing isn’t new in the world of oil and gas (O&G). It’s been a valuable tool for exploration, refining and processing for decades. But in recent years, the need ...Full Article
GDPR Mandates: Dark Data, ‘Leaver Data,’ Integrated Archiving
GDPR compliance requires ongoing data management of customer data, and if your organization hasn’t been fully attentive to this matter, consider these five best practices for data migration, data ...Full Article
STAC Floats ML Benchmark for Financial Services Workloads
STAC (Securities Technology Analysis Center) recently released an "exploratory" benchmark for machine learning which it hopes will evolve into a firm benchmark or suite of benchmarking tools to compare ...Full Article
Digital Investments Seen Climbing in 2019
Despite growing economic uncertainties, growth in investments and adoption of digital technologies such as AI, machine learning and cloid computing are expected to reach double digits in the coming ...Full Article
Intel Bets Big on 2-Track Quantum Strategy
Quantum computing has lived so long in the future it’s taken on a futuristic life of its own, with a Gartner-style hype cycle that includes triggers of innovation, inflated ...Full Article
IBM’s New GPU-Driven Global Weather Forecasting System
Weather prediction is a mercurial endeavor: the constant modeling and re-modeling of incredibly complex systems to a high degree of accuracy at a local level within short timespans. Now, ...Full Article
Cloud Transition Begets Cloud Waste
The more companies spend on cloud resources, the greater the likelihood those investments will be wasted on excess and therefore idle capacity along with the overprovisioning of infrastructure services, ...Full Article
2019 Data Center Drivers: Kubernetes, Cloud, ML, File System Storage
If 2019 is anything like the previous year, there will be a renewed push for modernization in the data center to alleviate the management complexity, handle the scalability requirements ...Full Article
