A few years back companies used innovation and digital transformation mostly to differentiate themselves and to stay competitive. The drastic growth in digital and cloud computing over the last couple of years have changed this mindset. Today, organizations have to be innovative and leverage the latest technologies just to sustain and stay in business. Enterprises […]
Leveraging Automation for Your Business
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capability to change the way we work, the way we manage, and the way we conduct research. As automation processes improve, businesses increasingly are looking for ways to leverage the new technology to help with their own goals. There are certain risks posed by the advancement of artificial intelligence, and […]
Splunk Acquires VictorOps: The End of the Road for Standalone IT Alert Management Tools?
This week, Splunk, the leader in machine data intelligence, announced the acquisition of IT alerting solution VictorOps for $120 million. My congratulations to the VictorOps team for building a solid product for alert management and collaboration, demonstrating a wicked sense of humor and creating some cool T-shirts. While the acquisition makes sense on many levels, […]
Eggplant Extends Scope of AI Applied to Application Testing
Reliance on machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to not just run application tests at scale but actually construct them may be about to increase. The latest release of a Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite from Eggplant enhances the AI capabilities baked into the testing tool to include the capture and […]
The Role of DevOps in Building an AI-Ready Infrastructure
The successful application of machine learning for artificial intelligence (AI) requires several contexts to be addressed, primarily the technical, data and business considerations. The Technical From a technical standpoint, in building an AI-ready framework there are choices to be made such as which machine learning framework to select, the type and structure of learning function […]
IBM Advances DevOps for AI Applications
IBM today made its first foray into applying DevOps methodologies to building artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Announced at the IBM Think 2018 conference, the latest IBM tools and services for building AI applications include a Deep Learning as a Service capability that has been embedded with IBM Watson Studio development tools and Watson Data Kits […]
Applitools Advances AI Testing of User Interfaces
Given the number of platforms applications now need to be able to run on, it’s little wonder that mistakes and errors that compromise the graphical experience of the end user appear all too regularly in production. Keeping up with all the various nuances of each platform is just too much to ask of the average […]
Focusing on the Real Value of AI for IT Ops
In all the hype over AI, let’s concentrate on the real value it can provide, especially for busy IT Ops teams. 2018 is already shaping up to be the year when AI and machine learning (ML) go mainstream—at least in terms of public awareness, if not yet of actual usable products. As I write this, […]
NASA/JPL Tech-Incubation CEO Talks Artificial Intelligence, Part II
This is the second installment of a two-part Q&A series on artificial intelligence (AI) with AJ Abdallat. It covers AI’s potential significance to computing; how AI affects jobs; the employee specializations needed to fuel AI; big data; and cultural challenges in the enterprise. Be sure to check out Part 1 as well. AJ Abdallat is […]
NASA/JPL Tech-Incubation CEO Talks Artificial Intelligence
AJ Abdallat is a serial entrepreneur who worked on artificial intelligence (AI) projects and commercializing smart sensors at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1998 until 2011. Later he founded, launched and ran several spinoff companies from Caltech/JPL, doing AI work in support of the space program and various […]