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At CES, robotics delivers AI into every corner of our lives
As the robot revolution accelerates, one of the biggest stories from this week’s CES consumer electronics show is that robotics has gone mainstream. Just as important, artificial intelligence has become a fundamental differentiator in mass-market robotics of every type. As developers get their arms around AI-infused robotics, they’ll find themselves herding a rapidly evolving menagerie of intelligent ...
Look for an onslaught of AI-stoked digital wellness products at CES
When the CES consumer electronics show begins in Las Vegas this week, we’ll see the usual dizzying range of hot new consumer electronics gadgets — mixed and augmented reality, more immersive and higher-resolution displays, more photorealistic graphics rendering, faster processors, greater wireless bandwidth, longer battery lives and more compact and flexible form factors. We’re also likely to see an ...
PREDICTIONS 2019
More turbulence is coming to the big-data analytics market in 2019
Big-data analytics has been one of the dominant tech trends of this decade and one of the most dynamic and innovative segments of the information technology market. But today’s big data analytics market is quite different from the industry of even a few years ago, and it’s almost sure to be substantially different in a ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
At KubeCon, the Kubernetes community discusses its growing pains
The Kubernetes market is on a fast growth path, but it’s also experiencing the issues that beset any rapidly evolving technology that’s being built out and refined by a global community. This week at the annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 event in Seattle, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming video studio theCUBE interviewed a wide range of Kubernetes movers ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
At KubeCon, serverless, mesh and DevOps announcements dominate
The core Kubernetes codebase has begun to stabilize, a trend made apparent from the fact that there was only one new open-source code contribution announced so far at this week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle. The main action in the Kubernetes market has shifted to commercial solutions. At KubeCon this week, there was a wide ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
Kubernetes open-source project matures as commercialization accelerates
This week, the annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 event taking place in Seattle will give the cloud computing industry a chance to take stock of how far Kubernetes has come. On the flip side, the show also will work through the issues that may be preventing this open-source container orchestration platform from achieving ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
The intensifying battle between AWS and Oracle for enterprise database supremacy
Enterprise databases have evolved so rapidly on so many levels in the cloud computing era. If you’ve been following tech industry news recently, you can’t help noticing that the war of words between Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. has reached a fever pitch. Databases are at the heart of it. Though they compete ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Robots will rule the edge: AWS drives a new AI paradigm
Edge computing means many things, but we often overlook that robotics is at the heart of it all. Autonomous edge robots are fundamental to pretty much everybody’s vision of what the future holds in store. At Amazon Web Services Inc.’s recent re:Invent 2018 conference, there were plenty of robotics-related announcements, most with a focus on ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
What’s missing from Outposts, AWS’ latest hybrid cloud announcement
At this week’s Wikibon post-re:Invent CrowdChat, one of the questions concerned which, if any, of the many announcements at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual conference last week in Las Vegas we would characterize as “ho-hum.” This was how I responded: “AWS Outposts. ‘Ho-hum’ in several senses: 1) it’s not going into GA till late 2019, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
As re:Invent conference wraps, AWS keeps getting stronger in the cloud
As its annual re:Invent conference draws to a close, Amazon Web Services Inc. left no doubt in anyone’s mind that it’s investing deeply in the technologies, tools and applications that it will need to stay the clear industry leader in cloud computing. If you attended this year’s re:Invent in Las Vegas, your brain is probably ...