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There is a war a-brewin’, but this war will be fought with wits and not
brute strength. Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration
that “the nation that leads in AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be the
ruler of the world,” the press and analysts have created hysteria regarding
the ramifications of artificial intelligence on everything from public
education to unemployment to healthcare to Skynet.
Note: artificial intelligence (AI) endows applications with the ability to
automatically learn and adapt from experience via interacting with the
surroundings / environment. See the blog “Artificial Intelligence is not
Fake Intelligence” for a more detailed explanation on artificial
intelligence and machine learning.
The Fast Company article “How to Stop Worrying and Love the Great AI War of
2018,” projected that the AI battle would ultimately boil down betw... (more)
A strong declaration from a historically antagonist foe should put chills in
the hearts of Americans preparing themselves for the world ahead: Russian
President Vladimir Putin says the nation that leads in AI will be the ruler
of the world [1]” … The ruler of the world!
From the article (with some modification to avoid political landmines), we
get the following:
“The development of artificial intelligence has increasingly become a
national security concern in recent years. It is China and the US (not
Russia), which are seen as the two frontrunners, with China recently
announcing its ambition to become the global leader in AI research by 2030.
Many analysts warn that America is in danger of falling behind, especially as
the [current US] administration prepares to cut funding for basic science and
technology research.”
Elon Musk, one of America’s foremost technology... (more)
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Blockchain for Business
Blockchain is a shared, secure record of exchange that establishes trust,
accountability and transparency across business networks. Supported by the
Linux Foundation's open source, open-standards based Hyperledger Project,
Blockchain has the potential to improve regulatory compliance, reduce cost as
well as advance trade. Are you curious about how Blockchain is built for
business?
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In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM
Cloud Unit in North America, discussed the basics of Blockchain, previewed
the Blockchain Reference Architecture, and introduced the mechanics of a
Blockchain Business Network.
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Speaker Bio
René Bostic is the Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America.
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This blog was written with the thoughtful assistance of David Leibowitz, Dell
EMC Director of Business Intelligence, Analytics & Big Data
So data warehousing may not be cool anymore, you say? It’s yesterday’s
technology (or 1990’s technology if you’re as old as me) that served
yesterday’s business needs. And while it’s true that recent big data and
data science technologies, architectures and methodologies seems to have
rendered data warehousing to the back burner, it is entirely false that there
is not a critical role for the data warehouse and Business Intelligence in
digitally transformed organizations.
Maybe the best way to understand today’s role of the data warehouse is with
a bit of history. And please excuse us if we take a bit of liberty with
history (since we were there for most of this!).
Phase 1: The Data Warehouse Era
Phase 1: In the beginning, Gods (Ral... (more)
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The Five Key Elements to Build, Deploy and Operationalize Artificial
Intelligence at Scale
The question before companies today is not whether to become intelligent,
it's a question of how and how fast. The key is to adopt and deploy an
intelligent application strategy while simultaneously preparing to scale that
intelligence.
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In her session at 21st Cloud Expo, Sangeeta Chakraborty, Chief Customer
Officer at Ayasdi, provided a tactical framework to become a truly
intelligent enterprise, including how to identify the right applications for
AI, how to build a Center of Excellence to operationalize the intelligence
and how to implement a strategy to scale efforts. She pulled from her
experience helping tackle HSBC's anti-laundering threats and identifying
genetic susceptibilities o... (more)
DX World EXPO, LLC, DXWorldEXPO.com a Lighthouse Point, Florida-based startup
trade show producer and the creator of DXWorldEXPO® - Digital Transformation
Conference & Expo has announced today that it has acquired the Cloud Expo®
trademark and its associated brand names from CLOUD EXPO, INC., a Woodcliff
Lake, New Jersey-based company that will discontinue its operation.
DX World EXPO, LLC was founded by Fuat Kircaali on May 27, 2017. "Now is the
time for a truly global DX event, to bring together the leading minds from
the technology world in a conversation about Digital Transformation,"
said Kircaali in making the announcement.
Davos of Technology
DXWorldEXPO® will be the world's most influential tech event which is
projected grow to 1,000+ exhibitors in its second year and 2,000+ exhibitors
in its third year, as it guides Global 2000 companies through their Digital... (more)
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End-to-End on the GPU: How to Vastly Parallel SQL, Visualization and Machine
Learning
Companies are harnessing data in ways we once associated with science
fiction. Analysts have access to a plethora of visualization and reporting
tools, but considering the vast amount of data businesses collect and
limitations of CPUs, end users are forced to design their structures and
systems with limitations.
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Until now. As the cloud toolkit to analyze data has evolved, GPUs have
stepped in to massively parallel SQL, visualization and machine learning.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Aaron Williams, VP of Global Community at
MapD, covered the end-to-end use cases of GPUs, from design to interactivity
to user experience, and how this technology is producing measurable,
significant outcomes f... (more)
In 1977, the Eagles released "Hotel California", a song about drugs and the
effects an addiction has on people. Putting "We are all just prisoners here,
of our own device" in the context of our digital lifestyle today we find a
lot of truth. There is a reason why Google provides most of its services for
free or why Amazon wants us to have an Echo in every home or why Facebook has
become our directory of "friends." What looks pretty convenient is a threat.
It is a threat to the end consumers but also a threat to the established
economy. And even if we have the choice to check out any time - we will never
leave.
The Feast of the Beasts
After already two decades, the Internet giants - speaking of Amazon, Google,
Facebook, Alibaba and Baidu - are still collecting tons of data, filling
their databases with information of everyone's knowledge, opinions,
recommendations,... (more)
The year 2018 is going to be an exciting one for the Internet of Things
(IoT). Many areas, including healthcare, automotive, smart cities,
usage-based insurance and asset management, will see more interesting
projects take off successfully around the world and in India. Increasing
realisation of the value that IoT brings together with the faster adoption of
connected electronics has pushed IoT to create a business transformation
narrative like never before.
1. The IoT Will Grow: In what might be the most obvious prediction of the
decade, the IoT will continue to expand next year, with more and more devices
coming online every single day. What isn’t so obvious about this
prediction: where that growth will occur. The retail, healthcare, and
industrial/supply chain industries will likely see the greatest growth.
Forrester Research has predicted the IoT will become “th... (more)
22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY, is co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo and will
feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the
leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced
by a majority of enterprises of all sizes.
Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality
of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid
cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS -
software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
Digital transformation is changing the face of business. The IDC predicts
that enterprises will commit to a massive new scale of digital
transformation, to stake out leadership positions in the "digital
transformation economy."
Cloud Expo | DXWorldEX... (more)
Fingerspitzengefühl: A German word used to describe the ability to maintain
attention to detail in an ever-changing operational and tactical environment
by maintaining real-time situational awareness. The term is synonymous with
the English expression of "keeping one's finger on the pulse". The problem
with fingerspitzengefühl traditionally, in addition to pronouncing it, has
been it is hard for an individual to scale up. Today that is changing. In a
world of sensors, AI and mobile devices, having real-time situational
awareness is far easier than ever before. In fact, today the challenge is
not how to do it, but what to do with the massive volume of data that can be
provided.
Data comes from many different sources, especially considering field services
where work is often mobile, remote and dynamic. If more data can be
captured and added to a typical GPS coordi... (more)
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@ThingsExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  Product connectivity goes hand and hand these days with increased use of personal data. New IoT devices are becoming more personalized than ever before.
In his session at 22nd Cloud Expo | DXWorld Expo, Nicolas Fierro, CEO of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions, will discuss how in order to protect your data and privacy, IoT applications need to embrace Blockchain technology for a new level of product security never before seen - or needed. Feb. 12, 2018 06:30 PM EST Reads: 1,922 | By Jason Bloomberg  Imagine if you will, a retail floor so densely packed with sensors that they can pick up the movements of insects scurrying across a store aisle. Or a component of a piece of factory equipment so well-instrumented that its digital twin provides resolution down to the micrometer. Feb. 12, 2018 02:30 PM EST Reads: 498 | By Elizabeth White  When shopping for a new data processing platform for IoT solutions, many development teams want to be able to test-drive options before making a choice. Yet when evaluating an IoT solution, it’s simply not feasible to do so at scale with physical devices. Building a sensor simulator is the next best choice; however, generating a realistic simulation at very high TPS with ease of configurability is a formidable challenge. When dealing with multiple application or transport protocols, you would be... Feb. 12, 2018 07:15 AM EST Reads: 2,345 | By Liz McMillan  Widespread fragmentation is stalling the growth of the IIoT and making it difficult for partners to work together. The number of software platforms, apps, hardware and connectivity standards is creating paralysis among businesses that are afraid of being locked into a solution.
EdgeX Foundry is unifying the community around a common IoT edge framework and an ecosystem of interoperable components. Feb. 8, 2018 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,984 | By Yeshim Deniz DX World EXPO, LLC, a Lighthouse Point, Florida-based startup trade show producer and the creator of "DXWorldEXPO® - Digital Transformation Conference & Expo" has announced its executive management team. The team is headed by Levent Selamoglu, who has been named CEO. "Now is the time for a truly global DX event, to bring together the leading minds from the technology world in a conversation about Digital Transformation," he said in making the announcement. Feb. 8, 2018 05:15 AM EST Reads: 2,188 | By Pat Romanski  In this strange new world where more and more power is drawn from business technology, companies are effectively straddling two paths on the road to innovation and transformation into digital enterprises. The first path is the heritage trail – with “legacy” technology forming the background. Here, extant technologies are transformed by core IT teams to provide more API-driven approaches. Legacy systems can restrict companies that are transitioning into digital enterprises. To truly become a lead... Feb. 8, 2018 12:00 AM EST Reads: 9,473 | By Liz McMillan  Digital Transformation (DX) is not a "one-size-fits all" strategy. Each organization needs to develop its own unique, long-term DX plan. It must do so by realizing that we now live in a data-driven age, and that technologies such as Cloud Computing, Big Data, the IoT, Cognitive Computing, and Blockchain are only tools. In her general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Rebecca Wanta explained how the strategy must focus on DX and include a commitment from top management to create great IT jobs, monitor ... Feb. 6, 2018 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,428 | By Liz McMillan  "Cloud Academy is an enterprise training platform for the cloud, specifically public clouds. We offer guided learning experiences on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and all the surrounding methodologies and technologies that you need to know and your teams need to know in order to leverage the full benefits of the cloud," explained Alex Brower, VP of Marketing at Cloud Academy, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clar... Feb. 6, 2018 01:45 PM EST Reads: 2,912 | By Ram Sonagara The IoT Will Grow: In what might be the most obvious prediction of the decade, the IoT will continue to expand next year, with more and more devices coming online every single day. What isn’t so obvious about this prediction: where that growth will occur. The retail, healthcare, and industrial/supply chain industries will likely see the greatest growth. Forrester Research has predicted the IoT will become “the backbone” of customer value as it continues to grow. It is no surprise that retail is ... Feb. 1, 2018 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,112 | By Elizabeth White  "Space Monkey by Vivent Smart Home is a product that is a distributed cloud-based edge storage network. Vivent Smart Home, our parent company, is a smart home provider that places a lot of hard drives across homes in North America," explained JT Olds, Director of Engineering, and Brandon Crowfeather, Product Manager, at Vivint Smart Home, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 31, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,735 | By Pat Romanski  SYS-CON Events announced today that Conference Guru has been named “Media Sponsor” of the 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York, NY.
A valuable conference experience generates new contacts, sales leads, potential strategic partners and potential investors; helps gather competitive intelligence and even provides inspiration for new products and services. Conference Guru works with conference organizers to pass great deals to gre... Dec. 30, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,529 | By Pat Romanski  The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the developmental challenges are the same: People, Process and Platform. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Craig Sproule, CEO of Metavine, demonstrated how to move beyond today's coding paradigm and shared the must-have mindsets for removing complexity from the develop... Dec. 30, 2017 08:30 AM EST Reads: 15,490 | By Liz McMillan  In his Opening Keynote at 21st Cloud Expo, John Considine, General Manager of IBM Cloud Infrastructure, led attendees through the exciting evolution of the cloud. He looked at this major disruption from the perspective of technology, business models, and what this means for enterprises of all sizes. John Considine is General Manager of Cloud Infrastructure Services at IBM. In that role he is responsible for leading IBM’s public cloud infrastructure including strategy, development, and offering m... Dec. 29, 2017 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,584 | By Liz McMillan  "Evatronix provides design services to companies that need to integrate the IoT technology in their products but they don't necessarily have the expertise, knowledge and design team to do so," explained Adam Morawiec, VP of Business Development at Evatronix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 29, 2017 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,808 | By Pat Romanski  To get the most out of their data, successful companies are not focusing on queries and data lakes, they are actively integrating analytics into their operations with a data-first application development approach. Real-time adjustments to improve revenues, reduce costs, or mitigate risk rely on applications that minimize latency on a variety of data sources. In his session at @BigDataExpo, Jack Norris, Senior Vice President, Data and Applications at MapR Technologies, reviewed best practices to ... Dec. 28, 2017 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,904 | By Elizabeth White  Large industrial manufacturing organizations are adopting the agile principles of cloud software companies.
The industrial manufacturing development process has not scaled over time. Now that design CAD teams are geographically distributed, centralizing their work is key. With large multi-gigabyte projects, outdated tools have stifled industrial team agility, time-to-market milestones, and impacted P&L; stakeholders. Dec. 23, 2017 10:00 AM EST Reads: 2,687 | By Elizabeth White  "Akvelon is a software development company and we also provide consultancy services to folks who are looking to scale or accelerate their engineering roadmaps," explained Jeremiah Mothersell, Marketing Manager at Akvelon, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Dec. 22, 2017 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,206 | By Elizabeth White  "IBM is really all in on blockchain. We take a look at sort of the history of blockchain ledger technologies. It started out with bitcoin, Ethereum, and IBM evaluated these particular blockchain technologies and found they were anonymous and permissionless and that many companies were looking for permissioned blockchain," stated René Bostic, Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Conventi... Dec. 18, 2017 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,836 | By Elizabeth White  In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Carl J. Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1, will objectively discuss how DNS is used to solve Digital Transformation challenges in large SaaS applications, CDNs, AdTech platforms, and other demanding use cases. Carl J. Levine is the Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1. A veteran of the Internet Infrastructure space, he has over a decade of experience with startups, networking protocols and Internet infrastructure, combined with the unique ability to it... Dec. 18, 2017 01:30 PM EST Reads: 3,849 | By Elizabeth White 22nd International Cloud Expo, taking place June 5-7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and co-located with the 1st DXWorld Expo will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud ... Dec. 18, 2017 01:00 PM EST Reads: 5,670 |
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As many know, the first generation of Cloud Management Platform (CMP) solutions were designed for managing virtual infrastructure (IaaS) and traditional applications. But that's no longer enough to satisfy evolving and complex business requirements.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Scott Davis, Embotics CTO, explored how next-generation CMPs ensure organizations can manage cloud-native and microservice-based application architectures, while also facilitating agile DevOps methodology. He explained how automation, orchestration and governance are fundamental to managing today's hybrid cloud e...
Our cities have been connected since the dawn of urbanization in the Indus Valley and on the plains of Mesopotamia nearly ten millennia ago. Cities exist to gather and connect people, bringing us together into communities and joint ventures that need complex networks of communication. But in recent years the connected city has come to mean something more. Today and in the future, the connected city will not just be about people connecting with people, but people with machines, people with people via machines, and perhaps most importantly, machines with machines.
There is a fundamental flaw in how many people think about digital transformation. First, as we’ve written about extensively at Intellyx, people tend to think about it as a finite corporate project, rather than as a process of continual transformation. There is a deeper flaw in thinking, however, that leads to this type of project mentality. Enterprise leaders commonly think of transformation as something done at a corporate level — something the organization does to itself. But that mindset creates a separation between the act of transformation at an organizational level and the transformatio...
From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.
The Automation era is here. We are in the fast pace of replacing manual human efforts with machines and processes. In the world of Information Technology too, we are linking disparate systems, softwares and tools to make things self sustaining. This is called Automation.It has been helping companies overcome t...
Every year about this time, we gaze into crystal balls to divine the future of our industry – or at least where it’s headed over the next 365 days. The result is often a triumph of incrementalism: we predict that we will get more of what we already have. The truth is, technology isn’t as revolutionary as we often think – and commenting on incremental changes alone may not help us understand what lies ahead.
Along with a few near-term predictions – so hard to resist – I’d also like to make some predictions not just about technology per se, but about related changes to organizations, processes,...
The word polymorphism is used in various contexts and describes situations in which something occurs in several different forms. In computer science, it describes the concept that objects of different types can be accessed through the same interface. Each type can provide its own, independent implementation of this interface. It is one of the core concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP).
Quick quiz!
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the following phrases?
Artificial grass
Artificial sweeteners
Artificial flavors
Artificial plants
A few years ago – in the early days of Blockchain – a lot of people were taken with the idea of a multifunctional chain on which all transactions could be handled. After Ethereum was launched in 2014, its advocates were talking themselves hoarse about the transformative opportunities the platform introduced. Decentralized applications, they predicted, along with all sorts of value transfers would be executed exclusively on Ethereum from that point on, and no other networks would ever be needed.
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have been the subject of much discourse in the last several years. They were widely anticipated in the gaming and entertainment industries, but in marketing and corporate settings, the benefits were murky at best. Today, these technologies are becoming more of a reality in all areas of business.
For example, the new IKEA® shopping app leverages augmented reality to help shoppers determine how certain popular items will look in their homes – no trip to a crowded megastore necessary. Marriott® deployed virtual reality for customers to see its hot...
As you have probably heard, the EU commission signed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) back in April 2016. The legislation is designed to help companies handle efficiently the data challenges of the 21st century and give strict guidelines as to how to work with massive flows of digital information. It is set to protect web users (data subjects) from malicious use and loss of their personal info and, also, to give people greater control over how their records are processed.
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