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Facebook CTO in NYC shares his thoughts on the future of Artificial Intelligence
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook Chief Technology Officer, posted on his news feed this morning his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence (AI). From SIRI to self-driving cars, AI is developing fast and dominating the conversations in “cutting edge” computer science thought leadership circles. Many think AI is science fiction magically turning computers into intelligent bots/machines with human-like ...
Women in Tech in Silicon Valley – Elephant in Silicon Valley
Women in Silicon Valley has been a hot topic over the past year. A group of influential women in tech initiated a site called www.elephantinthevalley.com to solicit a crowdsourced campaign to get at the heart of the issues directly from women themselves. The site was created by a small sample of women including Trae Vassallo, Ellen Levy, Michele ...
Analysis: What’s in store for cloud and big data this year
The biggest technology trends this year will continue to be cloud, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT). Cloud computing will continue to change the landscape of the enterprise while consumer technology will be disrupted by the role of big data and IoT technologies. Latest evidence is seen by Wikibon’s Future of Cloud Computing ...
Is the era of pure play storage companies coming to an end?
An indisputable fact throughout the history of the storage industry is that there have really only been two companies that have succeeded as standalone storage pure plays—EMC and NetApp. Now that Pure Storage has gone public and we are seeing lots of venture capital investments in the storage sector, the question everyone is asking is ...
A Black Eye on Black Friday: Outages & Data Loss Looming for Retailers
With Black Friday rapidly approaching—followed closely by Cyber Monday—all eyes are on the leading retailers—from Amazon to Best Buy to eBay, Target and Walmart—to see who can withstand the massive influx of hundreds of millions of online and in-store purchases set to push IT systems to the brink of collapse. Who will break? Whose site ...
Exclusive Video Story: EMC B2B marketing success formula: Be fun, social and data driven
It sounded crazy, even suicidal. Jack up a tractor trailer to 70 MPH, drive it up a ramp and jump it over a multi-million dollar Formula 1 race car whizzing just below. The EMC team that dreamed up the stunt had only one shot at perfection. Working in partnership with the Lotus Formula 1 Team, ...
Security is broken – Opportunities for startup and established players
A week doesn’t go by when there isn’t at least one headline about a substantial breach and loss of sensitive data and/or money. What’s the right model? Who has the answer? The current plethora of security tools and solutions that take a defensive approach with time-consuming manual detection and remediation obviously aren’t helping companies ...
HP CEO Meg Whitman memo to employees on Dell-EMC buyout #DellEMC
Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Meg Whitman sent an email to employees of HPE (HP Enterprise) outlining the challenged Dell, Inc. will face in swallowing EMC. HP knows a thing or two about trying to turn around a big company. Its new strategy is to be smaller, not larger, and on November 1st HPE will formally split from ...
Figuring out the Dell EMC $67 billion puzzle – RIP Client Server Era – #DellEMC
EMC being acquired by Dell, Inc. for $67 billion. I didn’t see this coming. Just last week at AWS #re:Invent I was convinced this was not going to happen. This deal (if it closes) will be seen as the flashpoint that signals the end of the client/server era and the beginning of the cloud/mobile/social computing industry. ...
Systems of Intelligence #BigData CrowdChat – Join the Conversation
George Gilbert, John Furrier, and the Wikibon team will be hosting an interactive, Q&A style, CrowdChat tomorrow, centered around George Gilbert’s recent Big Data research: Systems of Intelligence: The Next Generation of Enterprise Applications Built on Big Data. Time: Tuesday, 8/4 @ 1:00pm EST (for one hour) Where: https://www.crowdchat.net/bigdata The conversation will be held ...