Mike Vizard

VMware, at the VMworld 2018 conference, has launched an open source blockchain project that it promises will provide a more efficient approach to processing smart contracts based on distributed ledgers. Dubbed Project Concord, the VMware project seeks to accelerate processing of blockchain transactions while at the same time reducing the number of processors required to […]

The challenge many organizations face when it comes to digital business transformation is that the application backlog that the internal IT organization is trying to address is simply too long. To address that issue, many lines of business (LOBs) have embraced low-code platforms that enable them to build applications on their own. The challenge they […]

Fluree PBC announced this week that FlureeDB, a blockchain database that promises to make it simpler to build applications, is now generally available. Company CEO Brian Platz says that rather than working with raw blockchain technologies, FlureeDB presents developers with a familiar database construct for creating applications that are immutable. FlureeDB is ideally suited for […]

It’s increasingly clear that when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), many organizations will be able to leverage investments made by IT vendors that are being made available as open source code. The latest example of that trend is a decision by Salesforce to make TransmogrifAI, a machine learning library that makes it simpler to […]

The transportation industry has emerged as a primary focal point for artificial intelligence (AI) thanks to the all the research being poured into autonomous vehicles. But while millions of dollars continue to be poured into autonomous vehicle research, the day when billions of vehicles drive themselves on the streets of major cities is still very […]

Accenture this week signaled its intention to apply computer vision and product recognition technologies more broadly by investing in Malong Technologies. Based in China, Malong Technologies has been applying computer vision technologies enabled by machine learning technologies to supply chains. But Mike Redding, managing director for Accenture Ventures, says Accenture plans to apply the artificial […]

Oracle announced that it is making available a GraphPipe protocol for transmitting tensor data used to create artificial intelligence (AI) models over a network. Available on Oracle’s implementation of a GitHub repository, Vish Abrams, architect for cloud development at Oracle, says GraphPipe makes it simpler to query AI models by providing a consistent method for […]

IBM next week at a KDD 2018 conference in London will preview a forthcoming cloud service that makes use of machine learning algorithms to ingest PDF documents in a way that makes it possible to use the data in those documents to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. Costas Bekas, a distinguished research staff member and […]

As organizations that can’t employ public clouds to drive artificial intelligence (AI) applications start looking toward supercomputers based on graphical processor units (GPUs), many of them are encountering I/O issues that their legacy storage systems are unable to address. With that issue in mind, NVIDIA and NetApp have partnered to create NetApp ONTAP AI architecture […]

A fierce contest between Intel and NVIDIA for control over artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is now under way in earnest. Intel at a Data Centric Innovation Summit this week laid out its plans to usurp graphical processor units (GPUs) that over the last few years have been widely employed to build and train AI models. […]

SAP this week advanced its campaign to automate ERP processes using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies via an update to SAP S/4HANA Cloud that adds dozens of additional processes that have been optimized using machine learning algorithms. Sven Denecken, senior vice president and head of product management and co-innovation at SAP Cloud ERP, says the 1808 […]

Dell EMC is betting that many more artificial intelligence (AI) applications wind up being built and deployed in an on-premises environment than most IT professionals would expect. Dell EMC has unveiled a series of Dell EMC Ready Solutions for AI that make use of Intel processors to optimize machine learning algorithms and graphical processor units […]