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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
Object Storage is Latest Front in Cloud Price Wars
Storage, not computing resources, has emerged as the latest battleground in the public cloud price wars, according to an industry index. Market tracker 451 Research said this week the ...Full Article
Facebook Open Sources Caffe2; Nvidia, Intel Rush to Optimize
From its F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif., today, Facebook announced Caffe2, a new open-source, cross-platform framework for deep learning. Caffe2 is the successor to Caffe, the deep ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
Collaborative Cloud under Development for Manufacturers in Europe
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. ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article