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Join IBM November 1 at 21st Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center
in Santa Clara, CA, and learn how IBM Watson can bring cognitive services and
AI to intelligent, unmanned systems.
Build a Cognitive Chatbot Powered by IBM Watson
3:40 pm – 4:15 pm
JeanCarl Bisson, Developer Advocate, IBM
In this session we will build a chatbot powered by IBM Watson, connect it to
third-party APIs, and share best practices of chatbots co-existing with
humans.
Bringing Life to Intelligent, Manned Systems with AI and IBM Watson
4:20 pm – 4:55 pm
Marek Sadowski, Developer Advocate, IBM
Cognitive analysis impacts today's systems with unparalleled ability that
were previously available only to manned, back-end operations. Thanks to
cloud processing, IBM Watson can bring cognitive services and AI to
intelligent, unmanned systems. Imagine a robot vacuum that becomes your
personal as... (more)
AMD Tuesday released its Athlon MP 2800+ for one- and two-way servers and
workstations, a 32-bit chip that will theoretically compete against AMD's new
32/64-bit hybrid Opteron. The 2800 is based on the Barton core borrowed from
the mainstream Athlon XP that offers more L2 cache than the MP family has had
before, to wit 512KB. The 0.13-micron widget, which runs at 2.133GHz, though
AMD hates saying that, is priced at $275 in 1,000-unit quantities. The 2800's
clock rate is the same frequency as the earlier 2600+. The performance
improvement that prompted the new model number comes strictly from the larger
cache. Applications that are sensitive to cache size benefit, but it won't
help much for ones that are not.
... (more)
Sun software chief Jonathan Schwartz claims there are "two million Linux
desktops in the world - just none on Wall Street" and describes them as a
"problem for Microsoft." It's unclear where his numbers come from.
... (more)
Gateway has gone into the grid business, not exactly its stock-in-trade.
It's got 8,000 PCs on the floor and in the training centers of its 272 stores
that are sitting there idle most of the time. So, it's turned them into a
14-teraflop grid that it will rent time on for 15 cents per processor hour, a
fraction of the three, three-and-a-half bucks an hour that supercomputing
centers charge. Gateway says it will not demand any long-term or minimum-use
commitments.
The notion, and one has to admit it's pretty clever, was dreamed up by
company's newfangled New Ventures Organization run by Gateway CTO Bob
Burnett, whose charter is to find ways to grow Gateway's revenues and
customer base. This grid thing, which leverages a fixed cost, is Burnett's
first deliverable.
Gateway, whose nationwide store chain has been criticized as a pricey
extravagance, is calling the scheme... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- I have a confession to make. Until now, I haven't been
running games on Linux. I ran them on Windows 98SE, even if there's a Linux
version of the same games.
There are three reasons for this. The first is obvious. More games are
available for Windows than for Linux. The second is I have a 14-year-old son
who plays games that aren't available for Linux, so he has to run Windows.
When I purchase a game, I get the Windows version so I can let my son play it
when I'm not using the CD, and vice-versa.
The third reason is that, until now, I've never had much luck getting the
Linux accelerated graphics drivers for the NVidia GeForce card to work. I
could get it working with XFree86, but it would corrupt the text display when
I exited X11. When I solved that problem, it caused corruption of the
graphics in XFree86. Until recently, I gave up trying to get it ... (more)
SOA: You’ll Need More than Technology
To transform a company’s architecture to an SOA model, a systematic
long-term roadmap is critical.
4/3/2007
by Anthony Gold
Every few years the IT industry embraces the "next big thing." Occasionally,
it is a technology in search of a solution or a technology ahead of its time.
However, many times it is a technology that solves a real problem just as the
requirement emerges. A recent "next big thing"—open source (e.g.,
Linux)—addressed the IT needs of lower cost, increased flexibility, and
freedom of choice. It took years and the commitment of both large IT
providers and customers of all sizes to take open source from an interesting
idea to today’s mainstream successful development and product model.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the current "next big thing." After
years of discussion and definition, SOA is being actively d... (more)
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/28/06 -- Xandros, the leading provider of
easy-to-use Linux alternatives to Windows, today announced an immediate
solution for the 50 million 'disenfranchised' Windows 98, 98SE and ME
customers left without support and security patches. In response to the
recent announcement by Microsoft to suspend support to these customers,
Xandros is providing affected users a special opportunity to upgrade their
now unsupported and vulnerable Windows systems to Xandros' recently released
Desktop Home Edition or Home Edition Premium, a secure and stable Windows
alternative with full support and online update facilities. Xandros is
offering these users a 50% mail-in rebate when upgrading to either Xandros
Desktop Home Edition or Home Edition Premium which can be installed alongside
the unsupported Microsoft Windows, even on older hardware, elimi... (more)
ADC (NASDAQ: ADCT) (www.adc.com) today announced its Unity Performance
Manager (UPM), a centralized network management system that provides a single
management interface for ADC’s entire distributed antenna system (DAS)
portfolio, which includes the InterReach Unison®, InterReach Fusion®, and
FlexWave™ Prism systems. UPM greatly simplifies and reduces the cost of DAS
management by providing remote monitoring, control and alarm reporting of
from one to hundreds of individual ADC DAS systems – regardless of their
physical locations – through a single console.
“The release of the Unity Performance Manager now makes it possible to
monitor and manage multiple in-building and outdoor DAS systems through a
single interface. This greatly simplifies operations for mobile operators
managing dozens or hundreds of DAS deployments anywhere in their networks, as
well as enterpri... (more)
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Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung
i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?"
Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing
completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving
the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical
order.
Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not
(yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do
to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see
end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve,
December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of
each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!
In alphabetical order the nominees are:
Tim Berner... (more)
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010)
being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time
to give my earlier list a complete overhaul.
Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the
Cloud Ecosystem.
I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this
year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and
continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of
enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web
sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be
sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them
in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)
CloudEXPO Stories By Elizabeth White  "Calligo is a cloud service provider with data privacy at the heart of what we do. We are a typical Infrastructure as a Service cloud provider but it's been designed around data privacy," explained Julian Box, CEO and co-founder of Calligo, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Jun. 28, 2018 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,149 | By Elizabeth White  Adding public cloud resources to an existing application can be a daunting process. The tools that you currently use to manage the software and hardware outside the cloud aren’t always the best tools to efficiently grow into the cloud. All of the major configuration management tools have cloud orchestration plugins that can be leveraged, but there are also cloud-native tools that can dramatically improve the efficiency of managing your application lifecycle.
In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Alex Lovell-Troy, Director of Solutions Engineering at Pythian, presented a roadmap that can be leveraged by any organization to plan, analyze, evaluate, and execute on moving from configuration management tools to cloud orchestration tools. He also addressed the three major cloud vendors as well as some tools that will work with any cloud. Jun. 27, 2018 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,977 | By Elizabeth White  Using new techniques of information modeling, indexing, and processing, new cloud-based systems can support cloud-based workloads previously not possible for high-throughput insurance, banking, and case-based applications. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, John Newton, CTO, Founder and Chairman of Alfresco, described how to scale cloud-based content management repositories to store, manage, and retrieve billions of documents and related information with fast and linear scalability.
He addressed the challenges of scaling document repositories to this level; architectural approaches for coordinating data; search and storage technologies, Solr, and Amazon storage and database technologies; the breadth of use cases that modern content systems need to support; how to support user applications that require subsecond response times. Jun. 27, 2018 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,619 | By Liz McMillan  With more than 30 Kubernetes solutions in the marketplace, it's tempting to think Kubernetes and the vendor ecosystem has solved the problem of operationalizing containers at scale or of automatically managing the elasticity of the underlying infrastructure that these solutions need to be truly scalable. Far from it. There are at least six major pain points that companies experience when they try to deploy and run Kubernetes in their complex environments. In this presentation, the speaker will detail these pain points and explain how cloud can address them. Jun. 27, 2018 10:30 PM EDT | By Pat Romanski  Discussions of cloud computing have evolved in recent years from a focus on specific types of cloud, to a world of hybrid cloud, and to a world dominated by the APIs that make today's multi-cloud environments and hybrid clouds possible.
In this Power Panel at 17th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists addressed the importance of customers being able to use the specific technologies they need, through environments and ecosystems that expose their APIs to make true change and transformation possible. Jun. 27, 2018 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,278 |
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Poor data quality and analytics drive down business value. In fact, Gartner estimated that the average financial impact of poor data quality on organizations is $9.7 million per year. But bad data is much more than a cost center. By eroding trust in information, analytics and the business decisions based on these, it is a serious impediment to digital transformation.
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