Converting documents into a digital format has become a much bigger concern as organizations invest in the development of various types of AI models to automate business processes.
The Linux Foundation has released the first long-term support version of the Hyperledger Fabric framework along with a Hyperledger Grid reference architecture designed to make it simpler to build supply chain apps.
About the only thing most IT organizations can agree on going into 2019 is that, to one degree or another, they want to have a digital business transformation strategy.
Verizon has launched Digital Customer Experience, a managed service through which it will provide organizations access to bots developed by Verizon that can be trained to automate processes relating to customer service.
Accengage will advance the localization efforts of Urban Airship, while Urban Airship will make investments it has been making in the realms of IoT and machine learning available to Accengage customers.
As organizations embrace AI, many are entering uncharted legal territory. Just because something can be done does not necessarily mean it should be done.
With Arm Retail, Arm is trying to extend its dominance of smartphones and other embedded systems used, for example, in digital signage and point of sale systems into the realm of advanced analytics.
Interest in serverless computing frameworks is rising sharply, but the risk associated with being locked into proprietary architectures or investing in a framework that ultimately dies on the vine due to a lack of industry support is a major concern for most IT organizations.
IT teams need to come to terms with figuring out how to master all the various flavors of the cloud manifesting themselves across an increasingly diverse IT ecosystem.
It is clear that the long march to embracing AI pervasively across the enterprise is going to start with the aggregation of massive amounts of content.
The scale-out file system developed by IBM is ideally suited for GPUs because it is based on a parallel architecture that maximizes I/O throughput to the GPU processors.
It may take a little while longer before AI transforms business planning for the better, but at this point, it is clear that the way businesses are managed will soon be transformed utterly.
IT consulting companies are fighting to become the preferred partner of organizations as they make the transition to becoming a truly digital business. The value of those services will vary greatly depending on the digital maturity of the organization.
Most IT organizations in the months ahead will be moving down a path toward hybrid cloud computing. The only real unknown at this point is how bumpy that journey will be.
Digital business transformation heading into 2019 appears to be one of those activities that everyone talks about, but in practice, not nearly as many are making progress.
AWS is betting that as more AI applications are developed and deployed on its cloud, the overall size of the AWS cloud will continue to exponentially increase.
The current administration views all the laboratories that the U.S. government funds as undervalued assets that need to be more aggressively exploited in the years ahead.
While Red Hat has provided storage management software for years, the acquisition of NooBaa marks the first time Red Hat is moving into the realm of data management.