Mike Vizard

The thing that makes artificial intelligence applications different is that rather than being programmed, they need to be first taught the task that any organization wants to automate, much like a human being. To provide a structured approach to training those applications, Bonsai today announced it is providing early access to a set of tools […]

As interest in NVMe systems starts to build, Micron today announced it has developed a software-defined approach, dubbed Micron SolidScale, that will make shared storage systems available to next-generation servers. While NVMe promises order of magnitude better I/O performance, Andy Fisher, senior product line manager for Micron, says there is no efficient standard for plugging […]

Nutanix announced today it is now making available the software it used to create hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) on servers from both Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as well as additional server platforms from Cisco. Previously, Nutanix had moved to make its software available on Cisco UCS C-Series rack systems. Now Nutanix is extending that support out to blade […]

Some 50 years after being introduced, the mainframe remains core to enterprise. But managing that venerable platform is still a major challenge. Syncsort today announced it is partnering with Compuware to make log data generated by mainframes more accessible to IT operations teams by normalizing it in a way that makes it simpler to feed […]

At the NFV World Congress 2017 conference today, Aparna Systems unveiled two systems that take advantage of NVMe to pack 10,000 cores into a single 4u rack. Aparna Systems CEO Sam Mathan says the rise of NVMe presents a unique opportunity to rethink system design in a way that achieves all the benefits of hyperconvergence […]

One of the reasons 3D printers are not more widely employed across manufacturing industries just yet is that there hasn’t been a way to seamlessly integrate them into a process. SAP is aiming to fill that gap with the release of SAP Distributed Manufacturing, an application through which manufacturing companies will be able to send […]

One of the bigger challenges when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) has been enabling machines to better understand and correlate images being generated by video streams. At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2017 conference this week, IBM previewed an IBM Watson cloud service through which organizations of all sizes will be able to […]

Infosys this week announced it is making a slew of emerging artificial technologies (AI) available under a single platform dubbed Infosys Nia. Rather than requiring IT organizations to separately license everything from deep and machine learning algorithms to natural language processing engines, Sudhir Jha, senior vice president and head of product management and strategy for Infosys, […]

Aiming to make it simpler to build distributed applications at scale, Red Hat today updated its open source messaging platform to include support for a much wider variety of clients, in addition to improving overall scalability. Version 7 of Red Hat JBoss AMQ adds support for clients running Java Message Service (JMS) 2.0, JavaScript, C++, […]

Now that emails are generally considered to be legal documents, organizations are being required to retain them for years on end. But because no one knows when or if those records may be need to be accessed, more organizations prefer to archive those emails using the least expensive storage medium possible. Arcserve today announced it […]

Rather than allowing multiple end users to visit the same malware-infected sites multiple times over, Eastwind Networks today announced it has found a way to employ machine learning algorithms on top of a global network of Domain Name Servers (DNS) to process threat intelligence. Eastwind Networks CEO Paul Kraus says the predictive machine learning algorithms […]

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has been all the rage in IT circles as of late, but most IT organizations don’t yet fully appreciate just how converged things may soon get. As systems that support the NVM Express (NVMe) interface developed by Intel become more widely available, the level of application performance that can be achieved on […]