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Managing the Threat Above—How AI Can Streamline Cloud Computing with Burgeoning Data Growth

In this special guest feature, Tyrone Pike, President & CEO of FileShadow, Inc., observes that the number of files transferred daily makes it extremely difficult to manage manually, but AI is improving cloud technology to handle the influx. Applying AI to cloud storage enables users to gather, analyze, catalog and protect more data than ever before.

The Importance of Opening the AI Black Box in 2019

Today we continue the insideBIGDATA Executive Round Up, our annual feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the big data industry, and where it is headed. In today’s discussion, our panel of experienced big data executives – Ayush Parashar, Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Unifi Software, Robert Lee, Vice President & Chief Architect, Pure Storage, Inc., and Oliver Schabenberger, COO & CTO at SAS – examine the importance of opening the AI “black box” and how “explainability” will be hot in 2019.

Executive Spotlight: Oliver Schabenberger, COO & CTO at SAS

The insideBIGDATA 2019 Executive Round Up features insights from industry executives with lengthy experience in the big data industry. Here’s a look at the insights from Oliver Schabenberger, COO & CTO at SAS who is focused on setting the technology direction for SAS and executes the company’s strategic direction and business priorities. He oversees multiple divisions within SAS, including R&D, Sales, Marketing, Information Technology and Customer Support, as well as divisions focused on solutions for IoT, financial risk management and cloud.

Executive Spotlight: Ayush Parashar, Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Unifi Software

The insideBIGDATA 2019 Executive Round Up features insights from industry executives with lengthy experience in the big data industry. Here’s a look at the insights from Ayush Parashar, Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Unifi Software. Ayush has deep software engineering expertise around big data solutions & has strong domain knowledge around Hadoop, MPP database & Systems, Performance Engineering & Data Integration. Before Unifi he was part of founding engineering team at Greenplum.

insideBIGDATA Guide to Data Platforms for Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning – Part 5

With AI and DL, storage is cornerstone to handling the deluge of data constantly generated in today’s hyperconnected world. It is a vehicle that captures and shares data to create business value. In this technology guide, insideBIGDATA Guide to Data Platforms for Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, we’ll see how current implementations for AI and DL applications can be deployed using new storage architectures and protocols specifically designed to deliver data with high-throughput, low-latency and maximum concurrency.

“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 12/11/2018

Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&A activity, people movements, funding news, financial results, industry alignments, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the big data, data science and machine learning industries including behind-the-scenes anecdotes and curious buzz.

Book Review: How Smart Machines Think by Sean Gerrish

“How Smart Machines Think” by Sean Gerrish is a new MIT Press book that I would recommend to two classes of people: enterprise decision makers who are charged with evaluating AI, machine learning and deep learning technologies for their companies, and on the flip side, people who are looking to transition into the field of data science but know little about it. This is a great book for people in a hurry, something to pop into your carry-on bag the next time you’re on a cross country flight.

Deep Reinforcement Learning: From Board Games to the Boardroom

In this contributed article, Andrew Vaziri, a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Bonsai, highlights how we are now entering the age of profit-making Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), and why it took so long for this technology to make the leap from board games to the boardroom?

BlueData Offers New Turnkey Solution for AI and Machine Learning

BlueData, provider of a leading Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) software platform, announced a new solution to accelerate deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) applications in the enterprise. The BlueData AI / ML Accelerator solution includes the software and professional services to deploy containerized multi-node sandbox environments for exploratory use cases with […]

New Tech Trends Survey: AI/ML Top List of Priorities for IT Pros

SADA Systems, a leader in providing business and technology consulting services, announces the results of a survey of IT professionals and their opinions on some of the most talked-about technologies so far in 2018. The survey, which was completed by 500 IT professionals including nearly 100 top IT executives, focused on six technology categories – artificial intelligence/machine learning, augmented reality, blockchain, edge computing, the internet of things (IoT), and virtual reality.