Mike Vizard

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 doing as everyone might suppose. A global survey of 2,280 business executives conducted by PwC finds only 44 percent of respondents believe that that their company integrates digital strategy into […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications requiring access to massive amounts of data to drive machine and deep learning algorithms are clearly an ideal workload for public clouds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made it clear that it views AI as a critical workload for the cloud by launching no fewer than 13 different additional AI […]

The Trump administration will be making a push in 2019 to overhaul legislation that today limits the rate at which technology research funded by the U.S. government is shared with private sector. Speaking today at a 2018 National Competitiveness Forum in Washington, D.C., Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce for the U.S., told conference attendees that […]

Red Hat today signaled its intention to deliver data services across hybrid cloud computing environments by acquiring NooBaa, a provider of data management software designed from the ground up to span multiple clouds. Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager for storage and hyperconverged infrastructure at Red Hat, says that while Red Hat has provided […]

It’s now only a matter of time before digital business transformation sweeps across every major vertical industry. The only question at this point is which organizations will thrive as result of making that transformation versus those that will inevitably be consigned to the scrap heap of history. The main difference between those two outcomes will […]

There are fundamentally two avenues to creating a digital transformation strategy. The first is a bottom-up approach that relies on the initiative of individual business units to modernize the processes they have the most experience working with every day. The advantage of that approach is that it tends to achieve results quickly. The downside is […]

Cisco this week outlined a multiyear strategy for layering artificial intelligence (AI) into its unified communications portfolio that spans everything from translation to automatically adjusting smart cameras. Most of that effort today manifests itself in smart cameras that leverage machine learning algorithms to, for example, minimize the fish-eye lens effect that is commonly experienced in […]

Cisco this week revealed that as it relies more on machine learning algorithms to automate IT management, it will make the analytics it collects available to third parties via an application programming interface (API). In addition, Cisco announced it is now leveraging machine learning to provide automated fault management along with creating “digital fingerprints” of […]

Fresh off becoming a member of the open source Hyperledger blockchain project overseen by The Linux Foundation, Syncsort has revealed plans to provide data quality and management tools that will enable organizations deploying blockchain networks to more easily leverage data residing in enterprise applications. Syncsort CTO Tendü Yoğurtçu says as enthusiasm for blockchain networks continues […]

A level of maturity not usually found among proponents of competing emerging technology platforms appears to be taking hold in the blockchain community. Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and The Linux Foundation have agreed to become associate members in each other’s respective organizations promoting rival blockchain platforms. The Linux Foundation has been focusing its efforts on […]

Adobe this week moved to make it simpler to construct workflows around editable PDF documents via an update to Adobe Document Cloud that has also been infused with additional artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Lisa Croft, group product marketing manager for Adobe, says that with more organizations incorporating PDF documents within business processes, there’s a greater […]

Workday has announced at a Workday Rising 2018 conference that it has developed a Workday People Analytics application based on predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms, in addition to embedding machine learning algorithms to enable organizations to optimally manage their workforce skills, now generally available within its core software-as-a-service (SaaS) application portfolio. Pete Schlampp, vice […]