Category: Artificial Intelligence

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. You may be familiar with Microsoft Active Directory as it is a mainstay in many business’s IT operations and is crucial to the security and functionality of your network. Active Directory was developed by Microsoft for their Windows Domain networks and was released back in 2000 along with Windows 2000. Active Directory has become an umbrella that contains their “directory-based identity-related services” and offers a range of capabilities. At a high level, Active Directory stores information about objects handled on a network and makes it easy for admins and other users to access and ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. For about 20 years now, Microsoft Active Directory has been the dominant directory service controlling user access to IT resources. IT administrators have probably all heard of someone complaining about lacking access to a desktop or server. But just a few years ago, that problem was much easier to solve than it is now. With changes in IT environments, managing Active Directory has gotten more challenging. In 2017, Google saw that almost half of VM migrations to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) were from organizations running Windows. So it’s clear that moving from Windows workloads to ... Read More

Feed: Apple Machine Learning Journal. Author: . Deep neural networks are a milestone technique in the advancement of modern machine perception systems. However, in spite of the exceptional learning capacity and improved generalizability, these neural models still suffer from poor transferability. This is the challenge of domain shift—a shift in the relationship between data collected across different domains (e.g., computer generated vs. captured by real cameras). Models trained on data collected in one domain generally have poor accuracy on other domains. In this article, we discuss a new domain adaptation process that takes advantage of task-specific decision boundaries and the ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. So, you’re considering migrating from on-prem to the cloud? You’ve probably heard about people’s success in doing so and are now deciding that it might be time for you to join them. Good news—no matter what problem you’re facing, Google has built a world-class platform that you can be successful on. This post helps to identify what possible solutions Google Cloud has for you, all while trying to lay out a general map of what to look for in migrating to the cloud. What is Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? You’re probably here because you’ve heard ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. The Day It’s that time of the quarter again, and the 14th Blue Medorathon has come and gone, and once again those here at Blue Medora have shown up with their A game, bringing their passion projects to life while having a ton of fun at the same time. I was especially excited for this event since it was my first ever Blue Medorathon and even my first hackathon. For those of you who are in my boat and are not very familiar with what a hackathon is, let me run you through a ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . IPsoft held its Analyst Event on May 9, 2019 at its headquarters in New York. Here are some observations: First impressions and highlights of the event: I sensed a thematic shift in IPsoft’s go-to-market focus from a year ago. At last year’s event, the focus was on internally-facing virtual digital assistant (VDA) solutions in the form of IPsoft’s IT helpdesk solution called 1Desk. This year, the focus was on externally-facing cognitive solutions for customer service. In terms of highlights, two customers, Telefonica and BNP Paribas, spoke in detail about projects they have underway with ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. It has been an eventful month here at Blue Medora. Our team has been hard at work to bring you some great new features! Back in April, we released the Google Cloud Stackdriver Logs capabilities on BindPlane in Alpha, but last month we added a ton of cool new capabilities and source integration “bundles”. Here are all of the sources that we have included in logs as of May: Of all the new sources released for logs, I wanted to touch a little more on a couple we thought were pretty awesome. We have ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Steven Miller. Blue Medora has recently completed a SOC 2 Type 1 audit by Plante Moran!  Anyone who has been through a SOC 2 audit, or any other compliance regimen (SOX, HIPAA, PCI, etc.) knows that it can be strenuous to ensure you have all your processes and procedures documented, as well as proving out that you follow those procedures.  To my surprise, some of our modern deployment processes made this process easier than expected!  Let’s explore how modern techniques can streamline compliance verification. Peer Review Through Version Control Version control is a tool that provides ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . While Google, Amazon, Apple, and Nuance remain the most well-known names, other companies have quietly built natural language/conversational AI businesses. Consider China’s iFLYTEK, which reported more than $6 billion in revenue for its last fiscal year on solutions such as its aftermarket car assistant. And Boston area-based Interactions might be the most successful customer service virtual assistant company on the planet. A Focus on Customer Service Automation Founded in 2004, Interactions has been focused on customer service automation, providing a natural language-powered virtual assistant for brands such as Hyatt. Throughout Tractica’s virtual assistant research, ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Brian Williams. As a Solutions Architect for Blue Medora I have helped many end users of VMware’s vRealize Operations achieve operational visibility of their entire VMware infrastructure.  Today I wanted to address a very common question I receive during deployment. “How can I track Windows Service availability or Linux Process usage?” While Blue Medora can extend to many aspects of the environment, such as Server, Networking, Storage, Databases, and Applications, we also want to see the Operating Systems.  Having performance metrics, capacity information, and critical alerting of your operating systems is critical to building the completed ... Read More