machine learning

A re:Invent like no other shows an AWS capitalizing on 2020 chaos

December 2, 2020

A re:Invent like no other shows an AWS capitalizing on 2020 chaos Kurt Marko Fri, 12/04/2020 - 03:22 Summary: Amazon’s re:Invent went online, but there was plenty to mull over to be found in CEO Andy Jassy’s keynote. (AWS) After more than

New machine learning services boost AWS RoboMaker innovation

November 29, 2020

Whether robots are improving the efficiency of industries, helping with medical surgeries or enabling Earth and space exploration, these devices are increasingly attracting the attention of enterprises and their software developers. For companies interested in further developing these devices, Amazon Web Services Inc. is boosting its RoboMaker its cloud solution for robotic developers with [] Th

Amazon announces new machine learning tools to help customers monitor machines and worker safety

November 28, 2020

AI-enhanced tools promise safety and efficiency gains in industrial settings, but privacy campaigners fear mission creep Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday launched five new industrial machine learning services aimed at helping industrial plants and factories to improve safety, operational efficiency, and quality control at their workplace. The company said that companies can use t

ACM Europe Technology Committee delivers comments on UKs data strategy

November 27, 2020

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest and longest established professional society of individuals involved in all aspects of computing. Its Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) promotes sound public policy and public understanding of a broad range of issues at the intersection of technology and policy. Europe TPC is pleased to submit the following comments

ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee delivers comments on UKs data strategy

November 23, 2020

AWS to bring 5G edge compute service to the UK in 2021

November 17, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to bring its 5G edge compute service to the UK in early 2021. First unveiled at last year’s re:Invent event, AWS Wavelength offers optimised solutions for mobile edge computing applications, simplifying application traffic in order to fully utilise the latency and bandwidth benefits offered by modern 5G networks. The service manages to shorten the tim

AWS DeepRacer trains and engages tens of thousands of people on machine learning

November 12, 2020

Ever since the launch of Amazon Web Services Inc.s DeepRacer in 2018, tens of thousands of developers from around the world have been getting hands-on experience with reinforcement learning in the AWS Management Console by building their AWS DeepRacer models and competing in the AWS DeepRacer League for a chance to be crowned the AWS DeepRacer [] The post AWS DeepRacer trains and engages tens of t

ServiceNows AI chief on solving the last mile problem for enterprise AI

November 11, 2020

ServiceNow’s AI chief on solving the ‘last mile problem’ for enterprise AI Derek du Preez Wed, 12/02/2020 - 05:59 Summary: Vijay Narayanan, ServiceNow’s Chief AI Officer, explains how the workflow vendor is making AI scalable in the enterprise.

Its better to cannibalise yourself than have someone else do it for you - AWS boss

November 10, 2020

We pick out the highlights from Andy Jassy’s keynote at the virtual re:Invent conference Amazon Web Services boss Andy Jassy took to the stage live from Seattle for AWS' annual partner conference AWS re:Invent. We’ve rounded up the top announcements from his keynote. Force' the public cloud naysayers to change This summer, Jassy took a jab at businesses he says are still trying to

Amazon cloud head says COVID-19 accelerated cloud adoption by years

November 8, 2020

(Reuters) - The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud adoption by companies by several years, Amazon.com Inc’s cloud head Andy Jassy said on Tuesday. Jassy, who leads Amazon Web Services (AWS), made the remarks at the company’s re:Invent conference, a marketing event for its cloud services. Among several announcements, AWS launched a new chip called Trainium at the event, taking aim at Nvidia Co

BlackBerry and AWS are developing a standardized vehicle data platform

November 7, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and BlackBerry have signed a multi-year deal to develop and market BlackBerry IVY, a scalable, cloud-connected intelligent vehicle data platform. The platform aims to give automakers a standardized and secure way to read and analyze vehicle sensor data. The IVY platform will support multiple automobile operating systems and multi-cloud deployments. It’s built on BlackBerr

PagerDutys Real-Time AIOps-Powered Digital Operations Platform Integrates with Amazon DevOps Guru

November 7, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD), a global leader in digital operations management, has announced a product collaboration with Amazon DevOps Guru, an operational insight service powered by machine learning (ML) from Amazon Web Services (AWS). PagerDuty is one of four Amazon DevOpsGuru Launch Partners at AWS re:Invent 2020, further extending its longstanding relationship wi

AWS Announces Five Industrial Machine Learning Services

November 6, 2020

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI–Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced Amazon Monitron, Amazon Lookout for Equipment, the AWS Panorama Appliance, the AWS Panorama SDK, and Amazon Lookout for Vision. Together, these five new machine learning services help industrial and manufacturing customers embed intelligence in their production p

AWS Announces Five New Capabilities for Amazon Connect Helping Customer Service Representatives Offer More Personalized Efficient and Effective Experiences for CustomersAll Powered by AWSs Industry-Leading Machine Learning Technology

November 6, 2020

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, AWS announced five new capabilities for AWS’s rapidly-growing contact center service, Amazon Connect.

How University College Dublin uses SAS Viya and AI to drive better COVID manageability

November 4, 2020

How University College Dublin uses SAS Viya and AI to drive better COVID manageability Martin Banks Tue, 12/01/2020 - 02:28 Summary: Proactive, planned management through AI is helping to identify and predict the severity of a number of diseases, including COVID-19.

McLaren Racing uses Splunk to analyse 15 TB of data every race weekend

November 4, 2020

McLaren Racing uses Splunk to analyse 1.5 TB of data every race weekend Sooraj Shah Mon, 11/30/2020 - 22:23 Summary: McLaren Racing’s digital architect Ed Green says Splunk has helped the company to analyse data faster so it can spot anomalies and make adjustments to improve performance

View from India: Workplaces will never be the same again

November 2, 2020

V Shaped Recovery The National Statistical Office (NSO) has released estimates suggesting that India’s GDP contracted 7.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2020-21, following the record 23.9 per cent decline recorded in the first quarter. As a result of two successive quarters of negative growth, the country has slipped into a technical recession. Commenting on these figures, Dharmakirti Joshi,

Infrastructure is everywhere and so is your data

November 1, 2020

This article originally appeared in Issue 10 of IT Pro 20/20, available here. To sign up to receive each new issue in your inbox, click here. If there’s one thing that COVID-19 has taught the business world, it’s the importance of agility. The pandemic has added to the existing pressures of new competition, new markets and an always open global economy – all of which require business leaders to us

Iguazio Achieves AWS Outposts Ready Designation to Help Enterprises Accelerate AI Deployment in Hybrid Environments

October 29, 2020

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI–Iguazio, the Data Science Platform built for production and real-time machine learning (ML) applications, today announced that it has achieved the AWS Outposts Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This is a notable development for AWS and Iguazio customers who can utilize Amazon SageMaker to develop artificial intelligence

Veritone aiWARE Now Supports NVIDIA CUDA for GPU-based AI and Machine Learning

October 27, 2020

COSTA MESA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #AI–Veritone, Inc., (Nasdaq: VERI), the creator of the world’s first operating system for artificial intelligence (AI), aiWARE™, today announced it now supports the NVIDIA® CUDA® platform, enabling organizations across the public and private sectors to run intensive AI and machine learning (ML) tasks on NVIDIA GPUs, whether on-premises or in the Microsoft Azu

Veritone Connects With NVIDIA

October 25, 2020

Costa mesa-based artificial intelligence software developer Veritone announced this morning that it now supports the NVIDIA CUDA platform for its AI and machine learning (ML) software. According to Veritone, its support for NVIDIA’s CUDA GPU allows its customers tor un its AI and ML tasks both on-premise or in the Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) clouds. NVIDIA is a major developer of

IT Pro Panel: The practical CIOs guide to AI

October 23, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot-button topic in business IT for the last several years. Advancements in fields like deep learning and neural networks have made it easier than ever to commercialise AI without needing three years and a team of MIT lab scientists to train a machine learning model, and analysts have been busily predicting the dawn of a new AI-enabled age. We’ve extensively