Predicting future IT outages using AI
Monday, May 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
FixStream, an artificial intelligence company for IT, has introduced an advanced version of its product, an AIOps platform to predict business application issues across an enterprise’s entire hybrid IT stack. With new Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, advanced multi-layer correlation from business transactions to application services and infrastructure, FixStream can ra...
Machine learning gets faster thanks to Lifelong DNN technology
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Major improvements to how fast machine learning can be have been announced by Neurala in a breakthrough update to its Lifelong Deep Neural Network (Lifelong-DNN) technology. The update allows for a "significant reduction in training time compared to traditional DNN - 20 seconds versus 15 hour - a reduction in overall data needs, and the ability for deep learning neural ...
Azure and Unravel boost Big Data in the Cloud
Monday, May 07, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Unravel Data announced that it has integrated with Microsoft Azure to improve performance and reliability for Big Data workloads in the cloud. Unravel’s APM platform will be available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling Azure customers to analyze, troubleshoot and optimize their Big Data deployments with a full-stack solution. As a result, enterprises will gain...
KPMG expands alliance with Appian
Wednesday, May 02, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Appian and KPMG LLP announced an expansion of their strategic alliance. Together, the companies are focused on making it easier to realize the business value of artificial intelligence (AI) by combining the KPMG Ignite portfolio of AI services with the speed, features, and intelligent automation (IA) capabilities of Appian’s low-code platform. KPMG and Appian will expan...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: multi-cloud, and containers and AI, oh my!
Tuesday, May 01, 2018 by Richard Harris
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, recently introduced the new Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, optimized for security, multi-cloud, containers and AI. Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) runs on public clouds, VMware, OpenStack, and bare metal and delivers the latest upstream version, currently Kubernetes 1.10. After the initial three-step guided deployment, the distribut...
Appian announces the intelligent contact center platform
Monday, April 30, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Appian has announced a new product for rapidly building contact center solutions. Appian Intelligent Contact Center Platform is a new cloud platform tailored to the unique needs of contact center teams. The new platform inherits all of the core attributes of the Appian platform for building omni-channel customer engagement, case management, and intelligent automation so...
Job automation: Impacts, risks, and the future
Friday, April 27, 2018 by Richard Harris
Automation has been affecting our everyday lives for a long time now. From washing machines cleaning our clothes for us to water coming out of the facet because of a well, we love convenience, and automation makes it all happen.I think every generation has stood on the cliff of change because of automation. When technology is involved, making it working "automatically" ...
Appian announces new platform updates at Appian World 2018
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 by Richard Harris
At the Appian World 2018 global user conference, Appian unveiled the latest version of their Digital Transformation Platform. Enhancements to the platform help their users implement automation across the organization and bolster performance and administration of Appian’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud architecture. In addition to being in the core Appian platform, t...
Applitools raises $31M to advance visual AI
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Applitools has announced it has raised $31 million in Series C funding led by OpenView, the expansion stage venture firm, with participation from its existing investors Sierra Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, iAngels, and La Maison. Applitools will use this investment to fuel market expansion of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Powered Visual Testing and Monitoring sol...
Coinsource attempts to stop Bitcoin fraud
Monday, April 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Coinsource has announced a partnership with Acuant, a multi-factor KYC / AML authenticator working to improve customer experiences, increase conversion rates, and mitigate fraud at all of Coinsource’s Bitcoin ATM machines around the world. Acuant’s API and patented technology will now authenticate IDs and passports by applying 50+ forensic and biometric tests, in second...
Hazelcast Jet 0.6 promises better processing speeds
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Hazelcast has announced the 0.6 release of Hazelcast Jet - an application embeddable, stream and batch processing engine. New functionality in Hazelcast Jet 0.6 includes a simplified high-level Java API, enhanced job management capabilities which enable computation elasticity and Spring integration.In its 0.5 release, Hazelcast Jet launched its Pipeline API. In Hazelcas...
9.7M developers use JavaScript
Monday, April 09, 2018 by Richard Harris
SlashData announces the release of the State of the Developer Nation Report 14th Edition, based on the results of the bi-annual Developer Economics survey, which reached 21,700+ developers from 169 countries in 9 areas of involvement in November-December 2017.State of the Developer Nation Report report focuses on 4 major themes, each with its own visualization:For the f...
Stateful data stream processing launches to GA
Monday, April 02, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
data Artisans announced the general availability of dA Platform - a stream processing platform that enables enterprises to get insights from data in milliseconds and power next-generation service-centric applications and business models. The new release productionizes stream processing and enables companies to provide live data applications as a centralized enterprise s...
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud launched for GA
Sunday, April 01, 2018 by Richard Harris
Oracle has announced the availability of a new service based on its Autonomous Database named Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud. Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, uses machine learning to deliver performance, security capabilities, and availability with no human intervention, at "half the cost of Amazon Web Services."Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud delivers all of t...
Wait, what did NVIDIA just announce?
Saturday, March 31, 2018 by Richard Harris
At NVIDIA's annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the CEO and founder of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, made a whole bunch of announcements ranging from computational improvements to self-driving vehicle simulations. If you weren't at the conference to see it all, that's alright because here's the rundown of everything you need to know about the latest technology coming out of...
The Linux Foundation launches LF Deep Learning Foundation
Friday, March 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation has launched the LF Deep Learning Foundation, an umbrella organization that will support and sustain open source innovation in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning while striving to make these critical new technologies available to developers and data scientists everywhere.Founding members of LF Deep Learning include Amdocs, ...
MSU Data Center opens with public celebration
Friday, March 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Evidence of Mississippi’s innovative use of data will abound as the new National Strategic Planning and Analysis Research Center (NSPARC) Data Center at Mississippi State University celebrates its grand opening on Friday, April 20. The public is invited to join civic and private industry leaders from Mississippi and the NSPARC staff at 100 Technology Dr. in MSU’s Thad C...
Enterprise AI tools launched by Paperspace
Thursday, March 22, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Paperspace has announced the launch of Gradient to put the power of artificial intelligence into the hands of every developer. With Gradient, AI and Machine Learning developers of all levels can tap into a dedicated cloud of AI solutions for building, training and deploying machine learning applications.“There’s no denying that AI is the future of every industry, but to...
Developers offer insight on AI, Open Source, and GDPR in new survey
Thursday, March 22, 2018 by Richard Harris
There is alot of new tech already in motion this year - most of which was birthed into the industry years ago, though it's just now creeping into our daily thoughts as developers. So what do you think about, or should you be thinking about?Cloud provider DigitalOcean has released a new survey on software developer trends and technologies. The survey had almost 6,000 res...
DeveloperWeek 2018 roundup
Thursday, March 22, 2018 by Badri Rajasekar
DeveloperWeek 2018, held recently in the SF Bay Area, is part of the largest series of completely developer-focused events in the world, with conferences also held in New York and Austin. It is a testament to the fact that “software rules the world” that around 8000 developers turned up for various parts of DeveloperWeek, which included a large two-day Hackathon, a fren...
Mobile ad creative help from Tapjoy arrives
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Tapjoy has announced the launch of the Interplay Studio, an in-house creative team and design studio dedicated to helping brands, agencies and marketers deliver mobile ad creative optimized for in-app environments. Campaigns designed by the Interplay Studio have demonstrated average click-through rate that are 3-5X greater than traditional mobile video ads and deliver a...
SoC for ultra-low-power AI has launched
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Eta Compute Inc. has announced the availability of its latest System on Chip (SoC) platform. Silicon proven in TSMC 55nm ULP process, this ground-breaking product consumes only a fraction of the power of existing solutions and redefines the standard for ultra-low power embedded solutions.“Our patented event driven processor architecture (DIAL) is combined with our fully...
Flex contact platform announced by Twilio
Monday, March 19, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Twilio announced Flex, a contact center platform that gives businesses complete control of their contact center experience. With Twilio Flex, companies can instantly deploy an omnichannel contact center platform and also programmatically customize every element of the experience including the interface, communication channels, agent routing, and reporting to meet the un...
WebRTC AI solution wants to Optimize your calling experience
Thursday, March 15, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
callstats.io has announced availability of the first artificial intelligence solution for WebRTC, called Optimize. Optimize helps improve call quality by applying AI and ML algorithms. Optimize works in the background estimating the optimal quality for each user, using insights from the previous sessions. The insights are created in real-time for each individual end-use...
Shared data machine learning PaaS kicks off from Cloudera
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
Cloudera, Inc. announced Cloudera Altus with SDX, a machine learning and analytics Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), built with a shared data catalog providing the business context of that data. Altus supports a variety of high-value business use cases that require applying multiple data analysis capabilities and approaches together. SDX makes it possible for those analytic...
The most loved and hated programming languages
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
Stack Overflow has released the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey results. With more than 100,000 responses from coders in 184 countries and dependent territories, it is the most extensive survey of the programmer workforce to date.The 2018 survey offers vital insights for businesses looking to understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers - shedding ...
Mobile marketers should use video more report finds
Tuesday, March 06, 2018 by Richard Harris
YouAppi has announced the results of its second annual CMO Mobile Marketing Guide, which highlights opportunities for mobile marketers over the next 12 months. Video emerged the clear winner, with 85 percent of marketers planning to increase their investment in video during 2018, up a full 10 percent from 2017. Over three-quarters of respondents cited video as very or c...
Developers outlook 2018: big technologies, big changes
Tuesday, March 06, 2018 by Jason Thane
In 2018 changes in the technology landscape are creating fantastic opportunities for innovation in design and engineering. For decades, computers featured a TV screen for output, a keyboard for text input, and a mouse to point and click. Just a few years ago, the iPhone transformed everything by putting the first well-designed computer with a touchscreen in our pockets....
Google Cloud looks to streamline IoT management
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Google has announced that their Cloud IoT Core, a fully managed service to help securely connect and manage IoT devices at scale, is now generally available. With Cloud IoT Core, you can easily connect and centrally manage millions of globally dispersed connected devices. When used as part of the broader Google Cloud IoT solution, you can ingest all your IoT data and co...
Kubernetes platform helps simplify the app dev process
Monday, February 26, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kublr has developed an enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform that’s not tied to a single cloud, PaaS, OS, or technology stack. With the launch of Kublr 1.8, Kublr is introducing its self-service control plane that enables simplified Kubernetes deployment and management. The Kublr control plane empowers enterprises to run Kubernetes in production at scale out-of-the-box -...
Sensor Fusion Annotation autonomous vehicle API launches
Friday, February 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
Scale API has launched its Sensor Fusion Annotation API for LIDAR and RADAR point cloud data, which accelerates the development of perception algorithms for autonomous vehicles. Dozens of automobile OEMs and self-driving car companies (such as GM Cruise and Voyage) already use Scale API's comprehensive Image Annotation APIs to produce premium training datasets for their...
Learning AI to stop the Terminator from taking your job
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 by Richard Harris
For me the mention of AI and machine learning shoots my thoughts right into the “Terminator” movies, and the great struggle to maintain human existence in the year 2029. The film series is based around a giant AI computing superintelligence named “Skynet”, which is essentially in control of the entire Earth, and a legion of robots that want to destroy anything that thre...
Bitcoin job skills are hot says latest report
Monday, February 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Upwork has released its newest quarterly index of the hottest skills in the U.S. freelance job market. The Upwork Skills Index ranks the site’s 20 fastest-growing skills in a quarterly series that sheds light on new and emerging skills as an indication of hot freelance job market trends. According to a recent study, 57.3 million Americans (36 percent of the U.S. workfor...
Rethinking your mobile app testing tools
Friday, February 09, 2018 by Richard Harris
Using mobile app testing tools, or software QA tools usually tells developers something they don't want to hear - their software is broken somewhere. Over the years, testing apps and software has become more laborious than is should be, but a necessary evil when targeting multiple platforms and devices in today's dizzying world of mobile hardware.Rainforest is on a miss...
New open source platform for machine learning on Kubernetes hits
Tuesday, February 06, 2018 by Richard Harris
Seldon.io has announced the release of a new open-source platform that enables data science teams to run and manage models in production at scale. Seldon Core focuses on solving the last step in any machine learning project to help companies put models into production, to solve real-world problems and maximize the return on investment. Traditional infrastructure stacks ...
Mobile app testing automation software Panya Test Center v2
Monday, February 05, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Panaya announced the availability of Panaya Test Center 2.0 (PTC), a test acceleration platform that helps organizations drive innovation by accelerating and standardizing enterprise application testing. PTC 2.0 introduces machine learning capabilities that automatically create real-life test cases based on actual usage, improving testing relevance and efficiency while ...
Re-engage mobile app users with the latest YouAppi solution
Monday, January 29, 2018 by Richard Harris
YouAppi has announced the launch of its Re-Engagement solution, created to maximize the value of all mobile users, whether acquired organically or through the YouAppi platform. Re-Engagement was designed to work in tandem with YouAppi’s User Acquisition (UA) solution as part of its 360 Platform. The solution offers access to YouAppi’s Real-time Bidding (RTB), social and...
Phobio is partnering with Conversable
Monday, January 22, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Phobio has announced a partnership and teaming agreement with Conversable. The partnership will provide enterprises with an all new workforce communication experience through Phobio’s mobile application, Rodio.Rodio provides a two-way communication system designed specifically for enterprises to send important updates, promotions, and other strategic messages to remote ...
Red Hat survey identifies where tech investment is happening most
Friday, January 19, 2018 by Richard Harris
A new survey from Red Hat is out, aimed to better understand how technologies are being applied and the impact they are having in the enterprise. Red Hat commissioned research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 300 IT decision makers from organizations in the U.S., Europe and Asia that employ a significant field workforce. The survey examined investment trends, current a...
Continuous testing challenges for dev teams in 2018
Friday, January 12, 2018 by Eran Kinsbruner
Today’s world revolves around digital technologies. For example, consider how much time you spend on your cell phone in a single day. According to analytics firm Flurry, it’s more than five hours. From making calls to utilizing things like social media. banking and healthcare apps, there’s an app for just about everything. But what if the apps that help run our lives su...
Overcoming IoT security threats to achieve better ROI
Monday, January 08, 2018 by Richard Harris
With B2B IoT segments expected to generate more than $300B annually by 2020, it’s no surprise that companies are rushing to build out their IoT businesses and cash in on the modern day gold-rush. However, many manufacturers are struggling to achieve long term profitability for their IoT projects beyond initial hardware sales.The key to ensuring an organization’s IoT inv...
Software testing using Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, January 02, 2018 by Richard Harris
As the complexity of software continues to increase and release delivery cycles shorten, software testers need to provide quality feedback to developers nearly instantaneously. In this age of continuous testing, companies are adopting a new mantra: Test smarter, not harder. There’s simply no other choice, given the torrential pace of new software launches. Today, ...
How AI is transforming business
Friday, December 29, 2017 by Wolf Ruzicka
Businesses are drowning in a deluge of data. Within the torrent of information are bits that, once analyzed, can help people make the best decisions for their company, but it’s impossible to manually comb through and digest the raw data before the next wave arrives. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers one of the best solutions to finding the relevant data and forging it...
How human assisted AI may be the future
Tuesday, December 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Self-driving (autonomous) cars, robotic hotel concierges, and Amazon’s intelligent delivery drones - it’s hard to minimize the potential impact that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) promise. Business leaders are all aflutter about AI’s potential for providing game-changing impact to their industries. AI is also gaining attention for the perceived t...
Elliptic Labs to use Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 by Richard Harris
Elliptic Labs has announced that its touch-free ultrasound gesture technology is running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform using the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (NPE). Elliptic Labs’ ultrasound virtual sensors are an example of technology leveraging the NPE's machine learning and artificial intelligence optimization tools on the Snapdragon mobile pl...
AI and machine learning make app development and marketing smarter
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 by Brian Solis
Build it and they will come. Those were the good ole days. It used to be good enough to design a great app. Add to that an engaging user experience (UX), positive feedback, a high ranking and word of mouth, and your app was ensured continued success. Nowadays however, mobile consumers are simply overwhelmed by choice. Did you know that if you add up all the apps in the ...
IoT security gets tighter thanks to SDC Edge
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
StreamSets Inc. has debuted StreamSets Data Collector Edge (SDC Edge), an end-to-end data ingestion solution for resource and connectivity constrained systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the network infrastructure and personal devices that inform cybersecurity applications.SDC Edge packs the core functionality of the widely adopted StreamSets Data Colle...
Oracle weighs in on chatbots for enterprise developers
Tuesday, December 05, 2017 by Richard Harris
From self-service to instant payments, the chatbot industry has seen great things from the latest advents in the field of AI. That's why we sat down with Oracle to learn more about how with all these new changes in the messaging industry enterprise can see the value that can be attained by adoption.We recently had a conversation with Suhas Uliyar, Vice President, A...
Making in-app purchase whales is more expensive than you think
Friday, December 01, 2017 by Xavier Cramer
Not so long ago, businesses would drive traffic to websites without any concept of what people did once they got there. This traffic could be paid for on a cost-per-click basis and it was relatively cheap. Then we clued into the fact it was possible to track what visitors actually did on websites and equate that in terms of value to the business. The real value of websi...
Index San Francisco is now accepting speaker submissions!
Monday, November 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
Speaker submissions are now being accepted for Index - San Francisco, an event taking place February 20-22 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. Index will bring together the best leaders, builders, and innovators in development for three days of inspiring talks, hands-on learning sessions and networking opportunities. Sessions will cover technology topics rangin...
DevOps security gets a boost from CA Technologies
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 by Richard Harris
CA Technologies announced new enhancements to CA’s DevOps portfolio that deliver on the promise of faster software development and delivery. New releases in the Continuous Delivery portfolio and CA Digital Experience Monitoring accelerate and automate development and release, improve testing, and provide unprecedented visibility into digital experiences.“As companies in...
Drawbridge launches the Connected Consumer Graph
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
Drawbridge has announced simplified access for brands and enterprises to test and access cross-device data through its Self-Service Graph Platform. The identity data platform offers marketers new ways to quickly, easily, and transparently understand how a custom Connected Consumer Graph from Drawbridge can extend and enhance first-party data for people-based marketing a...
Voice to text in multiple languages for speech-enabled apps
Monday, November 13, 2017 by Rebecca Ray
It seems that our fingertips will finally get some rest from the constant tap-tap-tap on keyboards that continue to shrink beyond recognition. Companies such as Amazon, Baidu, Google, and Microsoft are working to take us into a voice-activated future. Their speech-enabled platforms are designed to support natural language conversations with the devices, gadgets, sensors...
About Universal App campaigns and getting installs
Tuesday, November 07, 2017 by Richard Harris
Universal App Campaigns (UAC) allows developers to promote their apps across Google’s top properties like Search, Google Display Network (GDN), AdMob, YouTube and Google Play. UAC advertisements are automatically distributed across Google’s channels and using machine learning ads are automatically rotated and bids are adjusted to get the most events to meet campaign’s o...
Free Machine learning solutions via the Acumos Project
Friday, November 03, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation has introduced the Acumos Project, a new project that is still in formation and aims to make artificial intelligence (AI) available to everyone by providing a common framework and platform for the free exchange of machine learning solutions.The founding organizations include AT&T and Tech Mahindra, a company specializing in digital transformatio...
MariaDB reports successful investment round led by Alibaba
Thursday, November 02, 2017 by Richard Harris
MariaDB Corporation announced that it raised $27 million in an investment led by Alibaba Group. Combined with a recent $27 million investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB), this latest capital brings MariaDB’s total funding this year to $54 million. MariaDB will continue its collaboration with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, to deliver...
YouAppi launches lightweight SDK
Thursday, November 02, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
YouAppi has announced the launch of its lightweight SDK, designed to seamlessly deliver the company’s comprehensive 360 Degree Growth Marketing platform to leading mobile brands. This new SDK enables full control of ad delivery, including rewarded video, interstitial video and interstitial ads, through an intuitive, self-service platform. YouAppi’s 360 Degree Growth Mar...
LevaData launches AI advisor Leva for strategic sourcing
Friday, October 27, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
LevaData announced the debut of its flagship product, Leva, an AI advisor for strategic sourcing and procurement. Leva is purpose-built for strategic supply chain and procurement professionals and uniquely combines multiple AI technologies with intelligent assistance to drive savings throughout the supply chain.Leva’s most significant and transformative innovation is in...
Community Data License Agreement announced by Linux Foundation
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
The Linux Foundation has announced the Community Data License Agreement (CDLA) family of open data agreements. In an era of expansive and often underused data, the CDLA licenses are an effort to define a licensing framework to support collaborative communities built around curating and sharing “open” data. Inspired by the collaborative software development models of ope...
Lets talk about QA automation
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
Automation is making its rounds through the tech industries it seems in recent times. And each time it reaches a new destination we see all new innovation and a breaking down of traditional models. We sat down with Metova's quality assurance experts to learn more from the experts about how automation is making changes in the field and what we can we expect in the future...
AppDynamics unveils the next gen business iQ
Monday, October 23, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
AppDynamics, a Cisco company and the leader in application intelligence, has announced new machine learning capabilities, and all new IoT network visibility, and vision for the next generation Business iQ, giving CIOs a bold new future with one platform to drive the business through the complexity of the digital economy.Every enterprise is deploying more and more softwa...
The impact of fast data on the modern application stack
Monday, October 09, 2017 by Richard Harris
Lightbend has announced its Fast Data Platform to help operationalize applications built for streaming data use cases. The new distribution aims to support how organizations design, build and run fast data applications, as new use cases like Real-Time Decisioning, Real-Time Personalization, IoT and others evolve the big data requirements from its legacy batch/Hadoop roo...
Data Science Experience from IBM gets an update
Tuesday, October 03, 2017 by Richard Harris
In a blog post on Medium in the section for IBM Analytics, by their own Vikram Murali, the company announced that IBM was going to update its Data Science Experience (also called DSX). DSX is a tool for amateur and professional data scientists alike who are looking to use an insightful tool for the data science trade. "With this release, we’ve focused on expanding suppo...
Google Cloud expands NVIDIA GPU offerings
Monday, October 02, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
In a recent post in on the Google Cloud Platform Blog written by Chris Kleban and Ari Liberman, Product Managers for Google Compute Engine, Google has announced new updates to their Cloud GPUs, namely: the platform is now using NVIDIA P100 GPUs in beta, and that the NVIDIA K80 has now been released for general availability.In the blog post, Google had this to say about ...
Kinetica and NVIDIA launch business intel platform
Monday, October 02, 2017 by Richard Harris
Kinetica has announced a new solution combining the power of NVIDIA DGX Station and Kineticas GPU-accelerated database to speed up Tableau queries, providing users the ability to make faster data-driven decisions. Available immediately from NVIDIA and Kinetica business partner InterWorks, the new solution allows customers of Tableau to modernize their underlying datab...
Splunk expands machine learning capabilities
Monday, October 02, 2017 by Richard Harris
Splunk Inc. has announced expanded machine learning capabilities across its product portfolio with the release of their Enterprise 7.0, IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) 3.0, User Behavior Analytics (UBA) 4.0 and updates to their Cloud platform. Splunk also introduced an updated suite of solutions that apply analytics and machine learning to fraud and cloud monitoring use ...
Python-powered machine learning with Anaconda and MS partnership
Monday, October 02, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Anaconda, Inc. has announced it is partnering with Microsoft to embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server to deliver data insights in real time. Microsoft and Anaconda will partner to deliver Anaconda for Microsoft, a subset of the Anaconda distribution available on Windows, MacOS and Linux. Anaconda, Inc. will also offer a range of suppor...
MemSQL is simplifying machine learning in their v6 update
Friday, September 29, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
MemSQL showcased at the Strata Data Conference the ability to run machine learning (ML) algorithms in a distributed SQL environment. In the newest release of MemSQL 6, the company added new extensibility features to enable ML, massive performance improvements for analytical queries, and a broader set of online operations.Previously, the path to implement ML meant workin...
AR and deep neural networks collide to provide ModiFace
Thursday, September 28, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
ModiFace has announced a new live video based hair tracking and hair color simulation technology utilizing a deep neural network architecture. The new deep learning architecture utilizes a set of collaborative neural networks to detect hair in each video frame and to adjust the coloration of hair in a photo-realistic way. The implementation also utilizes the latest mach...
DeviceID reset fraud is now top ad fraud method
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
AppsFlyer has introduced the general availability of a holistic, integrated solution - Protect360 - that helps immunize advertisers against the cost and loss of mobile install fraud. In beta testing with select clients, Protect360 revealed DeviceID Reset Fraud was more widespread than previously known, and will cost advertisers an estimated $1.1-$1.3 billion in 2017 whi...
The small business market should be the developers next focus
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 by Richard Harris
Small businesses are more often than not behind the curve when it comes to technology, but how will that change in the future as? That's the question that many enterprise are searching for the answer to.Alex Barnett recently returned to Intuit to head up their Developer Group and he could not be more inspired by the role developers are playing in small business success....
In-database machine learning coming in Vertica 9
Thursday, September 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
Micro Focus has announced a major release of its Vertica Analytics Platform. Vertica 9 introduces an extended list of in-database Machine Learning capabilities - including new algorithms, model replication, data preparation functions, and continuous end-to-end workflow - to simplify the production and deployment of machine learning models. In addition, Vertica 9 will be...
Cloudflare and Google partner to support developer innovation
Thursday, September 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
Cloudflare is collaborating with Google Cloud to help support developer innovation on the Cloudflare Apps Platform. The companies will help eligible early-stage startups access the resources needed to quickly launch and scale Cloudflare Apps built on Google Cloud Platform. The Cloudflare Apps Platform enables developers to build applications and distribute them to the m...
Shopping in AR is the future says Overstock
Thursday, September 21, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Overstock.com, Inc. will be launching augmented reality (AR) within the retailer’s iOS shopping app. Shoppers using a cell phone or tablet with iOS11 can launch the AR experience directly from the retailer’s app, which features true-to-life-size 3D models, giving shoppers the most accurate representation of the product as possible so they can see exactly how it will fit...
The impact of AI on the nearshoring market
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
Artificial Intelligence solutions, such as machine learning and deep learning algorithms, and chatbots, are fast becoming a business necessity for organizations everywhere, helping them make data-driven predictions to improve business outcomes, enhance customer service and to improve business workflow. But as a nascent and complex technology, it's difficult for companie...
