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Chef extends DevOps deeper into Kubernetes multiclouds
DevOps is a pipeline for rapidly deploying changes to infrastructure and application components. It also involves continuous verification of application compliance with relevant policies and mandates. Speed is the essence of DevOps success, as long as application quality and compliance are not compromised. Unfortunately, most DevOps professionals spend far too long getting their apps released into production. ...
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Informatica keeps the momentum rolling in hybrid cloud management
Informatica LLC has become synonymous with enterprise data management. Now in its 25th year, it has become one the premier providers of enterprise-grade data solutions in on-premises and cloud environments. Informatica’s Intelligent Data Platform solution portfolio supports sophisticated requirements of data managers, data engineers, data scientists, data curators and other professionals working in private, public and ...
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Pushing AI performance benchmarks to the edge
You can’t optimize your artificial intelligence applications unless you’ve benchmarked their performance on a range of target hardware and software infrastructures. As I discussed recently, the AI industry is developing benchmarking suites that will help practitioners determine the target environment in which their machine learning, deep learning or other statistical models might perform best. Increasingly, these ...
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Hybrid clouds: building out orchestration, middleware, DevOps and management tooling
Hybrid clouds are a necessary step, but often a transitional one, for enterprises that are evolving toward more complete reliance on public clouds. If you sifted through vendor announcements from the recent Red Hat Summit, you’ll find ample corroboration of this trend. In their efforts to help customers converge their investments in hybrid-cloud platforms, tooling and ...
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Blockchain startups are trying to grab a piece of the video streaming market
Nothing attracts startups like a market with big, healthy cash cows. That describes the video streaming market, in which a few high-profile brands have risen to the top of the media and entertainment industry. Even the back-end video distribution services are highly consolidated among the largest public cloud services providers. Startups are now flooding into the ...
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How client-side training is moving from the fringes to the center of AI development
Model training is where artificial intelligence models are readied for production deployment. Traditionally, machine learning, deep learning and other AI models are trained in clouds, server clusters and other high-performance computing environments. However, Wikibon has recently noticed a surge in AI training environments that operate at the network’s edge. In other words, these environments evaluate ...
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Crossing the uncanny valley without losing our grip on AI’s value
Science fiction has been announcing the coming of artificial intelligence and robotics for longer than most people have been alive. Our 21st century culture has been immersed in these visions for so long that we take them as manifest destiny. Over the past week, however, several AI industry announcements sent shivers down our collective backbones, ...
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Blockchain isn’t ready for enterprise primetime. Here’s what will get it there
Blockchain is rapidly rising up the enterprise priority stack, though as we noted recently, it’s still got a way to go before it’s widely deployed in business. Some longtime information technology industry observers predict that blockchain digital ledger will totally disrupt business as we know it within a few years. More blockchain pilots are making the transition to ...
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Anything but artificial, AI is evolving into anticipatory intelligence
Prediction is becoming cheaper, faster, more automated and more ubiquitous in our lives, and we have artificial intelligence to thank for that. AI is essentially a predictive technology. No matter what its algorithmic underpinnings, its core function is to make sophisticated inferences about what’s likely to happen based on myriad variables that have been distilled ...
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The big takeaway at I/O: Google updates its mobile AI roadmap
Artificial intelligence was the dominant theme of Google’s latest developer conference in Mountain View, just as it was at Microsoft Corp.’s equivalent shindig happening this same week in Seattle. In late March, Google LLC held a very technical AI developer summit where it made many important announcements in the evolution of its TensorFlow framework for ...