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The cult of cryptocurrency is growing up and getting organized
Ask the average person what they know about cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, and they’ll likely answer that they’re scams. But deep in the trenches of the emerging crypto culture, a picture of a legitimate business ecosystem is coming into high relief. “It’s moving from a culture of Burning Man and cult of the personalities to real industry formation,” said John ...
How AI can make GDPR compliance sexy
The terms data governance and compliance usually excite businesses about as much as tax season excites wage earners. But artificial intelligence software could change that by juicing governance with analytics and insight capabilities. Best of all, properly governed data is democratized data, which puts the power of analytics in regular business people’s hands. “I call ...
Democratized AI could put the tech oligopoly in its place
Artificial intelligence — what is it good for? Can we pierce the colorful veil of hype and hurrah over AI and spy what real business and social benefits it will bring us? “At the end of the day, the question is: Is the world going to be a better place with all this AI?” said Dave ...
IBM’s AI Ladder is runged with stepping stones for data dilettantes
While many companies have hobbled together a big data analytics strategy, most have not quite reached the lofty level of artificial intelligence. For that they will need to scale, rung by rung, what IBM Corp. is calling the AI Ladder. “What I mean by an AI ladder is, you can’t do AI without machine learning; ...
Companies’ horizontal trek into the data-driven future
New horizontally scalable technologies, like machine intelligence, deep learning and automation, can ratchet enterprise performance to the ceiling — that is, if they can rally them around a core of big data at the heart of their business. “If you look at the top five companies by market cap, their greatest asset is their data,” said Dave ...
This nonprofit raises social entrepreneurs under its own roof
Gargantuan data stores, megawatt compute power, artificial intelligence, affordable cloud infrastructure — it’s all a perfect storm for online shopping recommendation engines, right? Jests aside, the public is starting to notice Silicon Valley’s relative slacking in the social sphere as compared to commerce. But a cohort of philanthropists and investors are now combining resources to ...
Everybody loves cheap, secure Gov cloud — except infra legacies
Earnest efforts are underway to modernize government information technology for lower costs and tougher cybersecurity armoring. The Central Intelligence Agency and others have made their preference for public cloud known, striking envy in old-guard, on-premises infrastructure companies. “Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of interest by federal organizations to shift from what is traditionally a ...
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AWS aims to redesign social entrepreneurship around the world
Amazon Web Services Inc. has spent years helping transform U.S. government agencies’ information technology for the cloud computing era. Now it’s venturing further into global regions on a mission to propel less-developed nations into the digital age. “You walk into a country, and they have zero idea how to become a digital nation, [so] you have to — ...
Nasty, new security threats are scaring .govs to the cloud
The profusion of nasty, new cyber threats — nation state and sponsored state attacks, etc. — is lighting a fire under the seats of public sector information technology professionals. They are beginning to move uncharacteristically fast to new, tighter security technology, and finding it — somewhat ironically — in the cloud. “It’s long over due,” ...
The software convergence race to a single AI throat to choke
Big data analytics projects are flopping at a rate of 85 percent, according to some analysts. The culprit might be the heterogeneous heap of software technologies perplexing companies desperate for a simple, streamlined solution. Can we expect a valiant vendor to step forward and boil the best of the bunch down to a winning formula? ...