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When It Comes to Building Trusted AI Outcomes, Knowledge Must Precede Speed

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • Looking to build good artificiaI intelligence (AI)? Don’t let the speed and availability of open source frameworks, modules, libraries, and languages lull you into a...

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A 2020 Wish List for Data and Analytics Technology Providers

Summary Bullets: • Rather than try to predict wide-scale market trends, we share five very specific 2020 “wishes” for enterprise data and analytics practitioners. • Our list centers on cross-cloud data...

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Tableau Tackles Analytics at Scale, Not Through Tech Alone but with a...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: At its annual user conference, Tableau rolled out several data prep and management capabilities, highlighted by the ability for Tableau Prep Builder users to write out to...

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IBM Data and AI Forum: Say Hello to a More Accessible IBM Watson

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: Just one short year after an internal reorganization to more fully meld artificial intelligence (AI) with data and analytics, IBM is back with a new, more accessible vision...

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Huawei Connect 2019: When It Comes to Combating Global Politics, Huawei Is...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: Though unacknowledged, Huawei responded to growing global criticisms at its annual Connect Conference in Shanghai by introducing several new products in support of its...

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In a Containerized World, Does the Cloud Really Matter Anymore?

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • These days, everyone is doing containerization in a mad, industry-wide rush toward what appears to be true cross-cloud compatibility. • However, enterprise buyers need to...

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At Last, We Can Bid a Fond Farewell to Microsoft’s Troubled Skype for...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: Starting on September 1, 2019, Microsoft will begin onboarding new Office 365 users directly into Microsoft Teams, in essence removing the option for customers to run both...

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Forget Flashy Consumer 5G Potentialities; For Manufacturers Like Samsung, the...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • Late last week AT&T and Samsung together cut the ribbon on a co-developed 5G Innovation Zone that had nothing at all to do with consumer 5G future opportunities. •...

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Salesforce.com Asks AI-Curious Customers to First Invest in an Ethical...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • There has been a significant rush among technology providers to make artificial intelligence (AI) a self-service endeavor, to make it available to the broadest possible...

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Graph DB Makers Neo4J and TigerGraph Explore Bring Your Own Database Cloud...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • In order to do AI, IoT, and other big data-dependent projects right, companies are beyond the confines of traditional relational databases. • Two recent, related...

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Meet the New BlackBerry: Unique Potential Wrapped in the Enigma of AI,...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: Surprise! BlackBerry is no longer a languishing phone company struggling to remain relevant opposite powerhouse consumer hardware manufacturers Apple, Samsung, Google, et...

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Microsoft Unveils Bosque, Throwing Yet Another Stone Into an Ocean of...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: Microsoft’s new Bosque programming language may never rival top-tier options like Python or JavaScript; it might even fail miserably as an active language, drowning amid a...

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More Than Governmental Oversight, Responsible AI Takes a Village

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: What do Facebook’s ‘10-Year Challenge,’ Domino’s ‘Points for Pies’ app, and the early detection of diabetic retinopathy all have in common? They prove the difficulty in...

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Amazon re:Invent 2018: Say Goodbye to Best-of-Breed and Hello to Best-of-Need...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: At its annual re:Invent 2018 conference, Amazon Web Services rolled out a blinding number of micro-specialized solutions that emphasize ‘best of need’ over ‘best of breed.’...

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Is the Idea of Blockchain Too Beautiful to Succeed?

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • If blockchain is such a good idea, why hasn’t the enterprise IT industry already put it to work at scale? • As it turns out, the reasons behind blockchain’s slow rate of...

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Tableau Conference 2018: Hello, This is Your Data Calling

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • Data and analytics have historically belonged to the technological elite, those able to understand the subtleties of inner vs. outer database joins or those willing to...

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For Huawei, AI Development is a Job That Doesn’t End with the Final Product

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • At its annual Connect conference in Shanghai, Huawei formally rolled out a new AI portfolio aptly marketed as a full-stack, all-scenario proposition that spans the...

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As Above, So Below: What Can We Learn From Inspur’s Joint Design and...

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: • What can we learn from global server powerhouse Inspur about customizing servers in order to optimize demanding AI workloads? • Using Inspur’s joint design and...

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How to Succeed in AI by Really, Really Trying

B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: Just as the promise of AI is very real and likely to significantly alter the way all markets do business, so too is the danger that the decisions we make based upon AI may...

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Comcast Business Asks the Age Old Question, “What’s Beyond Fast?”

  B. Shimmin Summary Bullets: During its 4th annual analyst conference in Philadelphia, Comcast Business unveiled a new and decidedly inscrutable go-to-market campaign entitled “Beyond Fast.” Plying...

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