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Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement WiCipedia: Diversity in Product Dev & Israeli Entrepreneurs Protest Sexism By Eryn Leavens, Special Features & Copy Editor, 10/19/2018 This week in our WiC roundup: Keeping smart home products safe for all; Merkel finds sexism in Israeli tech community; girls have limited access to mobile phones worldwide; and more. Post a Comment \| Read (0) 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) 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) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards Atlantis-dude, 10/29/2018 10:57:18 PM IBM Buying Red Hat for $34B, Turning Cloud Upside Down Re: wht happens to soft layer cloud mhhf1ve, 10/29/2018 12:11:19 PM IBM Buying Red Hat for $34B, Turning Cloud Upside Down Re: Remember when open source wasn't worth anything? MSFT has github. IBM has Red Hat. Oracle has MySQL... Hmm. Open source tools aren't free as in not owned by a giant multinational company anymore. Mitch Wagner, 10/29/2018 10:35:53 AM IBM Buying Red Hat for $34B, Turning Cloud Upside Down Re: Re: Name change? [email protected], 10/29/2018 4:50:53 AM IBM Buying Red Hat for $34B, Turning Cloud Upside Down Re: Name change? Will we soon be talking about Big Blue Hat? macemoneta, 10/24/2018 5:03:29 PM Microsoft Rings Up $29.1 Q1 Revenue, Up 19% Re: They embraced Linux More than 50% of Azure is now Linux, since Microsoft now supports it. Microsoft has also embraced Android (Linux), instead of throwing billions into trying to break into the mobile market. And they've put 60,000 of their... 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. More Message Boards		Security Now ESET Researchers Find 12 New Linux Malware Families Larry Loeb, Author, 12/11/2018 A report from ESET finds 12 new Linux backdoor malware families in the wild that ... (0) M2M Protocols Expose IoT Data, Trend Micro Finds Jeffrey Burt, Editor & Journalist, 12/11/2018 The MQTT and CoAP protocols that are crucial to IoT and IIoT operations have ... (0) GO TO Security Now Broadband World News Fiber Connects More NA Homes Than DSL Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 12/11/2018 While Tier 1 carriers make up the vast majority of those deploying fiber to North ... (0) Ajit Pai's Not-So-Bad Bad Day Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News, 12/7/2018 Imagining a day in the life of Ajit Pai, a day when two years of service provider ... 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