Tag Archives: Machine

IDG Contributor Network: AIOps combines machine learning and automation to transform IT operations.

Posted on May 31, 2017 by John Davis

IT operations has become the lifeblood of all businesses today. A healthy IT organization can provide key competitive advantages for businesses in a fast-paced market. Many companies struggle to meet the high demand due to increased cloud system complexity. Distributed … Continue reading →

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Splice Machine seeks to deliver hybrid RDBMS as a service

Posted on February 12, 2017 by John Davis

Splice Machine, which specializes in an open source relational database for hybrid workloads, wants to bring that database to the cloud as a service. The company announced this week that it will release Cloud RDBMS, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) on Amazon … Continue reading →

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Google levels up its cloud machine learning with new services

Posted on November 16, 2016 by John Davis

There’s an arms race among public cloud providers to provide businesses with the best machine learning capabilities. Enterprises are increasingly interested in creating intelligent applications, and companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google are rushing to help meet their needs. Google … Continue reading →

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How to approach machine learning in the cloud

Posted on November 12, 2016 by John Davis

Artificial intelligence and its machine learning subset are all the rage these days. That was evident when I spoke this week at the AI World event, which was packed with vendors and users seeking to understand what the hell AI … Continue reading →

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Nadella points to machine learning as battleground in cloud computing

Posted on October 9, 2016 by John Davis

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has identified machine learning as the firm’s key focus as cloud computing usage becomes more widespread. It is an area that is fast becoming the battleground for the big cloud providers. Google and Amazon Web Services … Continue reading →

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AWS machine learning VMs go faster, but not forward

Posted on October 2, 2016 by John Davis

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new generation of GPU-powered cloud computing instances aimed squarely at customers running machine learning applications. The P2’s a major step up from the previous generation of GPU-powered AWS instances, and it has plenty of … Continue reading →

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Google’s new chip makes machine learning way faster

Posted on May 19, 2016 by John Davis

Google has taken a big leap forward with the speed of its machine learning systems by creating its own custom chip that it’s been using for over a year. The company was rumored to have been designing its own chip, … Continue reading →

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Eric Schmidt sees a huge future for machine learning

Posted on March 23, 2016 by John Davis

The man who helped build Google from a search engine into one of the biggest and most influential companies in the world has predicted the emergence of a new computing architecture based on crowd-sourced data and machine learning. Speaking at … Continue reading →

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Need machine learning? HPE just launched a new service with more than 60 APIs

Posted on March 10, 2016 by John Davis

If 2015 was the year analytics tools became ubiquitous in enterprise software, 2016 is shaping up to do much the same for machine learning. Just last week artificial-intelligence startup Nervana launched an offering that promises “deep learning on demand,” and … Continue reading →

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Why Microsoft’s data chief thinks current machine learning tools are like tailored shirts

Posted on November 19, 2015 by John Davis

When Microsoft’s data chief thinks about the future, he sees a world where developers create applications that leverage machine learning and predictive analytics without needing the help of a data scientist. Joseph Sirosh, the corporate vice president in charge of … Continue reading →

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IDG Contributor Network: Tidemark goes verticals, machine learning and benchmarking

Posted on September 24, 2015 by John Davis

Tidemark delivers enterprise performance management (EPM) software. What that esoteric acronym means is that Tidemark helps organizations take internal data they already have and use it to plan the future steps they will take, but also to assess the historical … Continue reading →

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IBM Strengthens Effort to Support Open Source Spark for Machine Learning

Posted on August 9, 2015 by John Davis

IBM is providing substantial resources to the Apache Software Foundation’s Spark project to prepare the platform for machine learning tasks, like pattern recognition and classification of objects. The company plans to offer Bluemix Spark as a service and has dedicated … Continue reading →

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