Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Google’s Cloud Vision takes image recognition to the next level
Google has thrown another new AI tool into its developer’s box in the form of its Cloud Vision API. The beta release of Cloud Vision, which had been available in limited preview since last December, is the latest in a flurry of AI-related announcements from Silicon Valley giants, as Google goes head to head with ...
Big Blue touts an easier way to deploy Apache Spark
Big Blue is hoping to smooth the passage for organizations looking to deploy Apache Spark with a new offering aimed at helping them to get the data processing engine up and running as swiftly and as easily as possible. The company’s new Platform Conductor for Spark was announced yesterday at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference ...
MapR offers free Apache Spark training for developers
MapR Technologies Inc., is getting serious about addressing the well-known “skills gap” in tech; it just rolled out a new on-demand training and certification course for Apache Spark, the in-memory analytics engine that many people think is of the most important big data technologies. MapR is better known for its association with Hadoop than Spark. ...
SpotCues takes on Slack & Facebook with location-based social networking for the enterprise
A new contextualized, location-based social network is hoping to undermine more established services like Facebook and Slack in the enterprise by allowing businesses to better interact with mobile customers and end users. SpotCues, which launched yesterday, is a social network that uses geo-fencing or Wi-Fi to create location-based social networks. The idea is straightforward enough: ...
Dell/EMC deal almost in the bag, says Dell
Dell Inc. has written a letter to its employees saying that its deal to acquire EMC Corp. is on track, despite the appearance of a flurry of rumors to the contrary in recent weeks. An open letter to the company’s employees, Rory Read, Chief Integration Officer at Dell, said that he wants to “address some ...
Windows 10 just got a big thumbs up from the Department of Defense
Microsoft has been given a huge lift this morning with the news that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has agreed to migrate more than four million devices to Windows 10 by January next year. That’s a big boost for Microsoft, which revealed in January that Windows 10 was running on more than 200 million ...
Google now offers every possible Custom Machine Type you could ever want
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure thought they had it covered. With almost 80 different types of cloud server available to rent from AWS, and around half that number being offered by Azure, you might assume that between the two of them, they’ve got the right server for just about every possible use one ...
Rackspace rocks it with a solid Q4, but weak outlook worries shareholders
Rackspace Inc. beat out analyst’s expectations in its fourth quarter earnings report yesterday, thanks to a number of early signups for its managed services on Amazon Web Services. Rackspace said it hit earnings of $32 million in its fourth quarter, or $0.24 per share. Revenues hit $523 million for the quarter, an 11 percent rise ...
SKYNET, an AI system built by the NSA to locate terrorists, is mislabeling innocents as threats
A fundamental flaw with a US National Security Agency (NSA)’s machine learning program to identify terrorist suspects in Pakistan may have led to thousands of people in that country being wrongly labeled. A report in Ars Technica says that the SKYNET program – yep, they copied Terminator – uses what’s called an “analytic triage”, using ...
Infinit wants to become the “Docker of Storage”
File management startup Infinit International Inc. has just outed its latest product. Dubbed by the company as “The Docker of Storage”, the software is able to unify storage resources like clouds, servers and NAS into a single, centralized file system that reduces the latency associated with accessing data from multiple remote locations. Infinit’s software can ...