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Cloud-based LED control helps change plant biology
As more agriculture Internet of Things nodes are brought onto the cloud, new machine-learning-based techniques are driving real economic impact for farmers, according to Shami Patel (pictured), chief executive officer at LumiGrow Inc. “LumiGrow is a smart LED lighting company that focuses exclusively on the horticulture sector. The intelligence is based on a smart fixture that’s wirelessly ...
AgTech evolution helps farms make sense of new age data
Applying new technology to the farming industry is a highly complex process because of the multi-faceted nature of the challenges facing farms. The key is making sense of the data once the new technology is implemented, according to Nathan Dorn (pictured, left), founder and chief executive officer of farming analytics startup Food Origins (F6S Network Ltd.), which provides precision ...
Farmers need guaranteed ROI before adopting new technology
Access to new technology is often not a limiting factor for innovative farmers, as AgTech sees a rise in companies building industry-specific products. The challenge lies in ensuring meaningful return on investment from the time and resources spent on new technology. So what motivates farmers to adopt new technology solutions? “If you look at farmers as a ...
California academic institutions join the AgTech revolution
The technology wave sweeping agriculture is impacting the entire range of organizations supporting the industry. In order to serve the needs of a massively growing population, all segments of industry must come together in order to produce a systematic solution, including academic institutions. “It’s going to be a balance trying to figure out how to ...
Observations on uniting agriculture around newest tech
The digital transformation is disrupting much more than the technology landscape. Historically low-tech industries like agriculture and farming are also seeing a surge in innovation. At this year’s FOOD IT: Fork to Farm event in Mountain View, California, Paul Noglows (pictured), executive producer of the Forbes AgTech Summit, explained how the Forbes event in the “Salad Bowl of ...
A game of data science: the analytics architecture behind Riot Games
With the help of modern analytics, Riot Games Inc. developed a highly successful computer game called League of Legends, in which players form teams of champions and compete with other players around the world. Wesley Kerr (pictured), senior data scientist at Riot Games, explained how his organization is leveraging data science to improve player experience and ...
Cloudera aims to change the way data is engineered
Developing an accurate data science model is a challenging process on its own. Scaling the model from a development environment to a production cluster presents another set of operational challenges that Cloudera Inc. aims to address with two new product offerings: Data Science Workbench and Altus. Mark Grover (pictured, left), software engineer at Cloudera Inc., explained some ...
The story behind simplified flash storage from Cisco, Pure team-up
In light of industry consolidation around providing complete, turnkey solutions to customers, Cisco Systems Inc. and Pure Storage Inc. teamed up to bring the performance of flash storage to the Cisco computing and networking stack. Several months into the partnership, during the recent Pure//Accelerate event in San Francisco, California, Mayur Dewaikar (pictured, left), product management, ecosystem partnerships ...
How Netronome Systems is optimizing distributed security
The sheer number of new nodes coming online is creating massive security challenges as networking infrastructure struggles to keep up with the processing requirements. One approach to mitigate the rising security challenge is the idea of installing a co-processor paired with a traditional off-the-shelf server to handle specialized processing loads, such as security. Netronome Systems, ...
Storage still a challenge in complex cloud ecosystem: how OpenStack is helping
As cloud computing configurations become ever more complex and expansive, seemingly simple tasks, such as configuring storage infrastructure, become more challenging. The number of technology options available for storage solutions adds another variable to the already complicated problem. To get a better sense of the latest trends in storage solutions, Stu Miniman (@stu) and guest ...