by Sven Breuner – As AI and deep learning uses skyrocket, organizations are finding they are running these systems on similar resource as they do with high-performance computing (HPC) systems – and wondering if this is the path to peak efficiency. Figure 1. Evolution of AI, ML and DL Ostensibly AI and HPC architectures have […]
By: George Leopold–Technology investors are betting emerging applications such as recommendation engines and supply chain logistics will further drive demand for real-time analytics. With more data in motion, cloud-native platforms that can scale are especially attractive. Among those attracting funding is Rockset Inc., which emerged from stealth mode in 2018. Initially positioned as an SQL […]
by Gary Hagmueller It’s been a tumultuous year. In just the span of a few weeks, COVID-19 emerged unexpectedly and abruptly altered almost every corner of the commercial insurance space. Stock market and GDP forecasts have whipsawed as economists and investors have tried to make sense of frequently shifting news. And now, we’re headed straight […]
By Naras Eechambadi As companies travel through the various stages of digital transformation, this enterprise-wide push invariably seeks to improve focus on the customer, especially by personalizing their experience with the company across all channels and interactions. To accelerate this transformation, many organizations are turning to customer data and analytics platforms (CDPs), which can become […]
By Bill Fenick is VP of Enterprise for Interxion Operators will have to handle new tech, while distributed systems bring new security risks, and new hubs will have to open up With today’s rapid pace of change, it’s getting harder to tell where the state of technology will be in 2020, never mind the next […]
by Alex Woodie With just over a week left on the 2019 calendar, it’s now time for predictions. We’ll run several stories featuring the 2020 predictions of industry experts and observers in the field. It all starts today with what is arguably the most critical aspect of the big data question: The data itself. There’s […]
By Tim VanTassel There’s an iconic moment in Jurassic Park when discussing the value of creating genetically engineered dinosaurs, Jeff Goldblum’s skeptical Dr. Ian Malcolm says: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” I think with a slight tweak, today’s bank executives would be […]
By Eran Gil—For many businesses, despite best-in-class architecture, the front-end and back-end of their company exist as two functioning but separate parts of the whole enterprise. The front-end is where the customer interacts, but there is little to no integration with the behind the scenes back-end where the cogs are turning and the data is […]
By Alex Woodie–We’re in the midst of a massive cloud migration at the moment, as companies look to take advantage of the scalability and simplicity of storing and processing data in the cloud. But connecting the dots between on-premise data sources and AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure repositories is easier said than done. That’s also […]
By Alex Woodie—Who is a data scientist, and what do they do? It’s a worthy question, and one that’s been asked an untold number of times over the years. But now it appears the job definition of the data scientist is changing into something new. The big question, then, is what replaces it? The traditional […]
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