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Inspector Gadget: Are all these AI tools for real?
Can we take stock of the state of artificial intelligence for a moment? Vendors are slapping the label on all kinds of products with pretty measly predictive potential. This isn’t just a ripoff; it could have disastrous business and societal impacts if users put too much faith in them. Hypothetically, perfect AI could be trusted ...
To stay cutting-edge sharp, AT&T puts feelers in wilds of techland
Keeping up with the latest technological innovation can be challenging even for nimble startups. For a huge legacy company, folding bleeding-edge tech into the core of the business, it must put feelers out in the wilds of techland. This is how AT&T Inc. is making strides in areas like the internet of things edge and 5G ...
Think you’re mobile? You ain’t seen nothing till 5G drops
What’s with the hype around 5G networking? We’ve got 4G already. Is a single digit going to improve on it that massively? It is — in fact, it is more than a step up for networking; it’s a leap for society in general and will show us the true meaning of mobile, according to Mazin Gilbert ...
First responders get their own network, no throttling with FirstNet
Congested networks are more than an inconvenience for ordinary mobile-phone users. They can cost lives in natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other situations that call for rapid coordination among emergency first respondents. A public-private initiative between AT&T Inc. and America’s public safety agencies aims to nix networking from the list of things to worry about ...
Open source is free like a puppy, but ROI is worth it, says Microsoft
Techies like to joke that open source is free like a puppy. Indeed, open-source communities — with their large, varied collections of code and rapid cadence of change — can extract a ton of hours and hassles from those using the technologies in production. Still, the trending opinion is that it’s all worth it for ...
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With 5G rollouts, ‘things are just going to work better’
Real, live 5G network services are coming. AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. just announced they’ll be rolling out advanced telecommunications plans for customers before New Year’s. But what’s the bigger picture for trending technologies such as artificial intelligence and self-driving cars? Obviously, it means faster mobile data networking. But 5G’s low latency will ratchet up ...
Questioning “three-clicks-to-nirvana” data-protection startups
Many companies are in the dark about data protection. Some assume it’s part and parcel with their cloud infrastructure — and then a disaster prompts a rude awakening. Startups are cropping up to meet the need for data protection across clouds, but their “three-clicks to-nirvana” spiel is suspect, according to Jyothi Swaroop (pictured), vice president of global ...
Multicloud, data-serviced, container-capable — it’s not your daddy’s HCI
What EMC’s president of converged platforms and solutions, Chad Sakac, once described as a niche virtual desktop infrastructure solution has traveled a long way. A swelling number of companies are coming to see hyperconverged infrastructure as the linchpin in their hybrid cloud strategy. “We started with virtualizing compute and storage together on servers, but we’re seeing ...
Red Hat brings controlled open-source chaos to multicloud
For all the buzz around open-source technologies, they can be a hot mess for enterprises to actually put into production. Red Hat Inc. stands out in the industry for its success in profitably slinging open source to customers in managed packages. Can the hatter bring multicloud under its roof and make it doable for enterprises ...
Nonprofit Mercy Ships stretches donor dollars with HCI
Many organizations with space constraints have opted for turn-key hyperconverged infrastructure appliances. A nonprofit organization with tricky space and logistics issues and a duty to stretch donor dollars must get a wallop of performance out of its information technology stack. Just ask Mercy Ships what it’s like being a maritime hospital staffed by volunteers. “As ...