Category: Big Data

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . NVIDIA is not necessarily known for powering low power AI applications. Most of its artificial intelligence (AI) focus has been on powering high power cloud or data center applications, where its Tesla graphics processing unit (GPU) processors have largely led the market. However, over the last 12 months, NVIDIA has accelerated its reach beyond the data center and is now building its portfolio to service low power AI edge applications. When it comes to AI at the edge, NVIDIA has been focusing on the automotive sector with its Xavier platform and on robotics and ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jeff Becker. Haven, the recently named joint venture of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, has officially emerged from the shadows with a public persona, giving industry pundits new details about the company’s ambitions and intended trajectory within healthcare. Haven has struck fear in the hearts of many healthcare organizations (HCOs), in part because of Amazon’s reputation for disruption but more so because the healthcare industry in the United States is particularly vulnerable. It is unnecessarily expensive, grossly overcomplicated, and seems incapable of self-correction. Haven’s Short- And Long-Term Ambitions Haven’s early focus will be on ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from Microsoft and elsewhere that I've noted over the past month or so. Open Source AI, ML & Data Science News TensorFlow Privacy: a Python library for training machine learning models with differential privacy, for use with sensitive data to generate models that don't learn details about specific people. Tensorflow Federated, an open-source library for Federated Learning, enabling many participating clients to train shared ML models ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Amanda LeClair. Historically, SAP has not been as renowned for innovation as some of its pure SaaS competitors, like Salesforce. But between a steady stream of SaaS (and now data) acquisitions, a notable and ongoing effort to simplify the product portfolio, and clear messaging around marrying the X (experience) and O (operations), SAP’s own digital revolution is well underway. But are customers keeping pace? On the S/4HANA front, the answer is not so much. What has been most notable in my recent conversations with customers and by sifting through the last year of inquiries is ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Josh Zelonis. Every year, the RSA Conference provides an opportunity to attend a few keynotes and get together with friends, old and new, to discuss trends we’re seeing in the market. While a big theme on the expo floor this year was Zero Trust, there were three topics that I found unavoidable during the conference and weren’t accompanied by a vendor pitch. Conversations about the impact of geopolitical threats on cybersecurity are nothing new. On the keynote stage, experts from US federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the National ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Nigel Fenwick. “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” While Ralph Waldo Emerson may not have said these exact words, the principles remain as true as ever today. Going Beyond Improving Today’s Customer Experience If you’ve been following my blog, you may remember a post from 2016, where I introduced a simple formula to illustrate the perpetual challenge of evolving customer experiences; as expectations rise, we need to continuously evolve our experiences simply to maintain equilibrium in the market. Over time, the customer experiences from different brands begin ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Praveen Sripati. In this blog previously we explored the different ways of getting started with K8S using Play-With-Kubernetes, Minikube and finally easily installing K8S using a combination of VirtualBox and Vagrant.Now we will try to install Istio on top of the existing K8S setup and install a Microservices based application called Bookinfo on top of it. Once the setup of Istio is done, we should be able to explore the different features of Istio. The Bookinfo Application is a polygot application using Python, Java, Ruby and NodeJS. The various Microservices and how there interact is ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . Over the past several years, the benchmark for determining whether quantum computing is a viable commercial technology has been quantum supremacy. This term was coined by Caltech professor and quantum computing guru John Preskill to describe the demonstration of a quantum computer that can carry out tasks not possible or practical with a traditional computer. More recently, the term quantum advantage has been applied to this concept of reaching a point at which quantum computers surpass classical computers in their ability to perform artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. To achieve that level of performance, significant ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Kate Leggett. Happy customer service agents mean happy customers — and happy shareholders. Engaged agents also have better job performance, are more productive, and stay in their jobs longer — which is one of the costlier factors in managing customer service operations. Customer service leaders have to balance their job demands with technology and training. They also have to pay attention to agent experiences and equip agents with modern agent desktops. These desktops will include: Enhanced context. Agents must quickly understand the customer and their context. Any customer intent gathered from the channels that the ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Matthew Guarini. It’s Time To Start Talking About Professional Licensing For Software Engineers It wasn’t until enough boilers blew up that mechanical engineers had to get licensed. It wasn’t until bridges and buildings started collapsing that civil engineers and architects had to get licensed. Now that airplanes are falling out of the sky due to automation (AKA, “software”) errors in the anti-stall systems, isn’t it time that software engineers have to get licensed? We buy, build, or trust many software- (and now AI-) controlled systems to protect our lives. How long are we going treat ... Read More