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Cybersecurity in 2018 The year 2017 was plagued by cybersecurity disasters, from Verizon accidently leaking the names, phone numbers and PIN codes of as many as 14 million customers to Equifax exposing sensitive personal information of nearly half the U.S. population. The year 2018 isn’t...

VMware announces new hybrid cloud capabilities VMware announced it is extending its portfolio of cloud services to help deal with complexities and risks anchored to multi-cloud environments. Hybrid cloud environments consist of using one or more public cloud providers with a private cloud platform. Despite the...

  The world’s first, entirely cashier-less store in Seattle opened recently. AmazonGo uses “intelligent” cameras and a powerful set of algorithms to “think”. It is a grocery outfit, but not as we know it. Shoppers simply scan their phones on the way in, grab what...

Cisco releases 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report Cyber criminals are increasingly using encryption to evade detection, while security professionals are becoming more reliant on automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence (A.I.). That is at least the conclusion of Cisco’s recently published 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report, which involved...

Verizon announces SD-WLAN Verizon Enterprise Solutions recently deployed its Software-Defined Wireless Local Area Network (SD-WLAN), which provides visibility into both corporate wireless network operations and Bluetooth-enabled devices connected to the network. The company reports SD-WLAN enables network access and security configurations. What makes Verizon’s SD-WLAN different...

The need for distributed intelligence Advancements in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning have taken the cloud to new heights over the past few years. Despite this progress, however, one vexing problem remains: mobile apps with A.I. and machine learning algorithms tend to have higher...

Arm announces Project Trillium Arm introduced a new processor platform, called Project Trillium, as part of an initiative to bring machine learning to mobile edge devices. The platform includes two new processors, the Arm Machine Learning (ML) and Object Detection (OD) processors, which the company...

Oracle is boosting its cloud service offerings on all fronts: physical footprint, service-level agreements and expanded automation features across its cloud platform. In a series of announcements today, the company outlined a significant expansion of its data center regions and the level of automation in...

Mavenir finalizes purchase of Argyle Data Mavenir announced it completed its acquisition of computer security services company Argyle Data in a move to enhance its machine learning security suite. Financial details of the purchase were not disclosed. Argyle Data is a provider of big data analytics...

Rise of the cloud The cloud rose to new heights in 2017 as tech giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and a host of other vendors competed for market space. As we enter 2018, enterprises continue to look to the cloud to gain a...

Google announces Preemptible GPUs Google has launched preemtible GPUs, a programmable logic chip made for display functions, which enable users to use virtual machines with GPUs at a 50% discount. Although, it should be noted the company can shut down the use of the service...

  5G, IoT, Services (vs. Apps), Over the Top (OTT), Smartphones, App Layer vs. OS Layer, Augmented Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) are hot mobile topics for 2018. There’s a number of new breakthrough developments that will make 2018 our best...

Container security vendor premiers Twistlock 2.3 Container security company Twistlock announced the availability of Twistlock 2.3 with a focus on protecting container workloads. The debut marks the 12th release of the company’s main product with new features like cloud native firewall, app aware system call...

New Kubeflow project brings machine learning to Kubernetes Google engineers recently announced a new project dubbed Kubeflow, which leverages machine learning to address the hurdles of launching convoluted workloads on Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open source platform that serves as the backbone of container orchestration management....

Cyber Psychologist and Arm CEO probe cybersecurity challenges and opportunities Santa Clara, Calif. – Cyber Psychologist Mary Aiken alongside Arm CEO Simon Segars participated in a Q&A with New York Times Contributor Don Clark at Arm TechCon, discussing why more progress with cybersecurity hasn’t been made,...

SKT Labs founder explains why the IoT is so hard Santa Clara, Cali. – The internet of things (IoT) holds many opportunities as more and more devices connect to each other each day. But it also gives rise to a host of unresolved challenges. During...

“There is more and more intelligence in the networks that is joining us together,” Arm CTO says Santa Clara, Cali. – Chief Technology Officer of Arm Mike Muller, in a keynote presentation during the 2017 Arm TechCon, discussed some of the major engineering feats that...

Google technical director discusses key tech trends redefining enterprises AUSTIN--Digital transformation is having a profound impact on how companies conduct business, giving rise to new competencies never seen before. As these competencies are further developed, Google Technical Director Paul Strong sees a number of...

Acquisition of Blue River Technology will allow Deere to bring machine learning to agricultural equipment Deere & Company has inked a deal to acquire California-based Blue River Technology, which specializes in machine learning technology for agriculture. Deere said it will invest $305 million to fully...

Utility will work with OSIsoft and Petasense Silicon Valley Power, the municipal electric utility owned by the city of Santa Clara, is adding operational intelligence to its connected predictive maintenance system. The utility has been working with Petasense for predictive maintenance, and now will leverage...

Scyfer has developed AI solutions for verticals including manufacturing, healthcare and finance U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies announced the acquisition of Dutch firm Scyfer, an affiliate of the University of Amsterdam focused on machine learning techniques. Scyfer has built artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for companies worldwide...

A conversation with Robert Laliberte, VP Marketing, Empirix The below is only a summary. Download a transcript of the complete interview and access the complete report "Mastering Analytics: How to benefit from big data and network complexity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfLR2oMf_pU&feature=youtu.be How can mobile operators deal with all the data that they...

Machine learning is a technique by which a computer learns to compute a task without explicit instruction. This technique is used to train computers by using algorithms that iteratively learn from data and enable them to find insight. The core subarea of artificial intelligence,...

  As service providers look to virtualization and cloud services to provide new flexibility and revenue streams, the evolution of the network presents new challenges for monitoring and troubleshooting. “Everybody is looking at cloud services and also virtualization, so there’s huge opportunities there for lower...