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News & Views Most Popular Investors Rain Cash on Cloud Startups By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/12/2018 Investors shell out for companies that plan to kill on-premises data warehouses, server scalability and web performance limits, and AI bottlenecks. That's more murder than a Quentin Tarantino movie! Post a Comment \| Read (0) Microsoft: We 'Pledge Our Entire Patent Portfolio' to Linux By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2018 Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network, a mutual patent protection society, and is bringing along 60,000 patents as a housewarming gift. Post a Comment \| Read (0) IBM: We're Beating Red Hat Private Cloud Growth By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/11/2018 IBM Cloud Private, which is a year old, has hundreds of users, a landmark it took Red Hat nearly four years to achieve. However.... Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Behind the Cloudera-Hortonworks Merger: 'The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 10/8/2018 Fending off hypercloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft was a driver for the merger. But there's more to it than that. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Microsoft Ignite Slideshow: Stay Away From the Agony Booth By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/28/2018 Microsoft made Florida even hotter. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Microsoft Flexes Muscles on AI, IoT & Security By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/24/2018 Microsoft kicked off its Microsoft Ignite customer and analyst conference by punching all the hot buttons on enterprise cloud. Post a Comment \| Read (0) IBM Debuts Tools to Make AI More Fair By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/19/2018 Big Blue is introducing a cloud service and open source toolkit to help reduce bias from AI decisions, and make those decisions more explainable. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement Microsoft Takes Aim at Salesforce With Dynamics AI By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/19/2018 Microsoft is looking to make automated sales, marketing and customer service smarter, challenging Salesforce's strategy. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Microsoft Buys AI Startup Lobe, to Feed Human Brains to Machines By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/14/2018 Lobe makes drag-and-drop AI development tools to fill dire shortage of trained AI engineers. Post a Comment \| Read (0) IBM Defies Data Gravity By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 9/13/2018 IBM is looking to beat network bandwidth constraints by bringing analytics to the data, rather than vice-versa. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: DHagar @Mitch, Excellent report on a truly innovative design. Now IBM is getting... 5G Networks Will Change Computing, Processing for AI By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 9/10/2018 Tractica forecasts a multi-billion-dollar opportunity for edge computing that supports AI applications. But will all that go away when 5G networks arrive? Post a Comment \| Read (0) AI Takes On Telecom Customer Service By Mark Beccue, Principal Analyst, Tractica, 8/27/2018 AI-driven solutions are being used in telecommunications to support various elements of the customer experience that most CRM systems just can't handle. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: Joe Stanganelli Alas, the perverse fetish among customer-service execs for "self-help" is what... The World of Disney: StudioLAB Innovation, Cisco Collaboration & 5G Anticipation By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 8/21/2018 With technology partners and an eye toward 5G networks, the StudioLAB is helping Disney-owned content studios solve technical production problems and reach consumers in novel ways. Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: blognhansuvn Yap The AI-Driven Telecom Network Is Near & Necessary By Mark Beccue, Principal Analyst, Tractica, 8/20/2018 By 2021, telecom networks will see a turning point where AI-driven technologies will be necessary to deploy, run and manage 5G services and leverage comprehensive network automation solutions. Post a Comment \| Read (4 comments) Latest Comment: k6msr As you are aware, IP network routing protocols are a series of bandaids which... Salesforce Open-Sourcing Machine Learning Software Behind Its 'Einstein' AI By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/16/2018 Salesforce's 'TransmogrifAI' helps enterprises build big AI systems based on oceans of data. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Google Applies AI to Recruitment, Call Centers & Recommendations By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/16/2018 Google is looking to knock down barriers to AI adoption by offering enterprises a head start on specific business uses. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Oracle Open Sources GraphPipe for 'Dead Simple' Machine Learning Deployment By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/15/2018 Big Red can't decide whether it loves open source or hates it. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Intel Pivots to Data-Centric Future By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/13/2018 Can Intel reinvent itself for the post-PC future? Post a Comment \| Read (0) Dumb Networks, Not Just Dumb Pipes By Phil Harvey, US News Editor, 8/9/2018 The CEO of one of the largest ISPs in the world isn't so keen to use artificial intelligence to manage its network. He just doesn't need it. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Intel Reinventing Xeon for AI – but Is It Too Late? By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 8/9/2018 Intel is late to market with AI-enabled chips, but it's determined to catch up. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards ANON1242907730513, 10/3/2018 6:39:17 AM Verizon: Vendor AI Not Ready for Prime Time Re: Nascent Network AI Matt Tegerdine's experience with the vendors clearly demonstrates that the majority of the current AI use cases have come from the customer interaction side of the enterprise market, not the network side of the CSP market.... blognhansuvn, 9/27/2018 6:25:44 AM The World of Disney: StudioLAB Innovation, Cisco Collaboration & 5G Anticipation Re: Re: Sweet sunnies, Phil! Yap k6msr, 9/21/2018 4:27:18 PM The AI-Driven Telecom Network Is Near & Necessary Re: Re: WiFi is all you need As you are aware, IP network routing protocols are a series of bandaids which have to be tweaked to obtain a properly operating network. I am developing a network where each routing device is a neuron in a neural network.... DHagar, 9/13/2018 5:10:47 PM IBM Defies Data Gravity Re: Re: IBM Defies Gravity @Mitch, Excellent report on a truly innovative design. Now IBM is getting smart! (Note: Maybe applying their own AI!) But this truly makes sense and configures data in new and accessible ways that... Joe Stanganelli, 8/29/2018 11:37:29 PM AI Takes On Telecom Customer Service Re: Self help Alas, the perverse fetish among customer-service execs for "self-help" is what has gotten us to terrible and worsening customer service to begin with. (Those automated menus are a classic, if basic, example.)And yet, it... James_B_Crawshaw, 8/27/2018 1:12:32 PM The AI-Driven Telecom Network Is Near & Necessary Re: Re: AI for communications Don't be shy k6msr, tell us more. k6msr, 8/21/2018 8:37:46 PM The AI-Driven Telecom Network Is Near & Necessary Re: AI for communications I am glad to see the advocation of AI for communications networks. I have an AI technology that I am developing for this need. It is scalable to large numbers and is secure. It uses low cost technology. Phil Harvey, 8/21/2018 5:06:11 PM The World of Disney: StudioLAB Innovation, Cisco Collaboration & 5G Anticipation Re: Re: Sweet sunnies, Phil! They passed them out when we entered the city limits. I was told not to take them off or they'd show me how James Dean really died. Kelsey Ziser, 8/21/2018 5:04:07 PM The World of Disney: StudioLAB Innovation, Cisco Collaboration & 5G Anticipation Re: Sweet sunnies, Phil! Love the sunglasses, Phil! Use of drones for 3-D mapping is pretty cool. sarcher60555, 8/21/2018 3:28:00 PM The AI-Driven Telecom Network Is Near & Necessary Re: WiFi is all you need Plus Whatsapp and all of your roaming needs met. RituGupta, 8/19/2018 11:54:29 PM IBM Launches 'Skinny' Cloud Mainframe Re: Re: Mainframe lite This is something that I would not have expected to arise in the cloud industry. Usually when data is concerned, we would all want something huge to ensure enough data can be stored away for good. However, when the term... kq4ym, 8/7/2018 8:15:23 AM Google G Suite AI Talks With Your Colleagues So You Don't Have To Re: Re: Great & awful One might well wonder about automated messaging and the effect it may have on personal empathy in the workplace or now even towards one's best friends. Listening actively to what others say seems to be an important part... Mitch Wagner, 7/31/2018 8:11:37 PM Google Pushes Enterprise Strategy Beyond the Cloud Re: Re: Soda I know a couple of people who bring their own coffee-making equipment when they travel. Joe Stanganelli, 7/31/2018 4:23:39 PM Google Pushes Enterprise Strategy Beyond the Cloud Re: Soda > Bafflingly, the conference had plentiful candy but no soda How strange... Is this a casualty of the latest Bay Area war on things people like? Or perhaps it was a ploy to get you to buy overpriced stuff at the Convention... Michelle, 7/30/2018 9:16:52 PM Google Cloud Next in Photos, With Gorgeous Giraffe Footwear Re: GoogCon I didn't realize Google had such a conference. It looks like it was pretty good. More Message Boards		Security Now Security Needs to Start Speaking the Language of Business Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 At the Gartner Symposium/ITXPO, upcoming security trends for the next year ... (0) Privacy & AI Changing the Digital Transformation Game Scott Ferguson, Managing Editor, Light Reading, 10/16/2018 At Gartner's Symposium/ITXPO, analysts have come up with the term ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News Coop Gives a Damn About Infrastructure Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 10/16/2018 Beaver Creek Cooperative Telephone Co. needs to replace its legacy system with a ... (0) AT&T Suffering Service Outage in Dallas-Ft. Worth Area Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading, 10/15/2018 Company says fire at facility caused by lightning strike is the culprit. Update: ... (5 comments) GO TO BROADBAND WORLD NEWS Telecom Innovators Video Showcase Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... PacketFabric: Leading the Way in Highly Scalable Network ... Accenture 5G Acceleration Services at Mobile World ... Semtech: LoRa Technology Enabling Proven, Flexible IoT ... Versa's CEO, Kelly Ahuja: Securing & Software-Defining ... How Lumina Is Redefining SDN Aryaka's Gary Sevounts: Advantages to Consuming SD-WAN ... Calix's Shane Eleniak: How Data Analytics & Software ... MobiledgeX's Jason Hoffman: State of the Edge Cisco's Yvette Kanouff: How We Get Real Results From ... 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