Year of the Cloud

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services, whether that be servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, intelligence, etc., over the Internet or the cloud. This option is chosen for faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. ZD Net brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “Cloud computing: Five key business trends to…

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The Future of Machine Learning

The future of machine learning is bright. More and more organizations are realizing the benefits that come with this emerging technology. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Machine Learning Moves to the Hybrid Cloud.” The term machine learning is often incorrectly interchanged with artificial intelligence (AI), but machine learning is actually…

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Choosing the Right ECM

The ability to access the correct version of a document or record is important. Content must be managed so that it is used to achieve business goals. Enterprise content management (ECM) is the systematic collection and organization of information that is to be used by a designated audience. Tech Target brought this topic to our…

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Mobile Activity in the Clouds

Machine learning is typically operated in the cloud, because of the technical elbow room. On mobile devices, resources are extremely limited, which means if you want to run your models directly on the devices, they have to be highly optimized. Tech Crunch brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Fritz wants to help…

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Big Data and the Cloud

The big data world is under a shiny spotlight because of the flurry of activity with cloud access and Hadoop technology implementation. In an increasingly cloud-friendly business landscape, more and more global businesses are moving to the cloud.  DATAVERSITY brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Data Governance and Serverless Computing.” The…

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Digital Data Access

The Guinness World Records (GWR) isn’t the first place you would think of that would be struggling with a data storage challenge. ZDNet brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Cloud computing is the key to digital transformation at Guinness World Records.” People from anywhere on the globe can apply online for a…

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Archiving History with Intent

The New York Times is digitizing millions of historical photos dating back to 1896. The Times hopes that by digitizing and archiving its photo library, it can eventually move some of that material into its licensed library of syndicated material. This interesting news came to us from AXIOS in their article, “NYT digitizes millions of photos…

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Better Technology for Access

Microsoft is going all in on artificial intelligence (AI) with a $25 million initiative to use it to build better technology for people with disabilities. This interesting information came to us from the Associated Press in their article, “Microsoft launches $25M program to use AI for disabilities.” CEO Satya Nadella announced the new “AI for Accessibility” effort…

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Machine Learning Results Based on Ontology

Machine learning matching is being applied to proprietary data, customer contributed data, and seed data from public sources to hone and consolidate data sets. Comparing people with acquired skills and the identification of skills gaps are difficult to understand in a meaningful way, but Workday People Analytics are utilizing an ontology to identify skills. This interesting…

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