The drumbeat of services, press releases and strategic partnerships related to machine learning processes and deep learning frameworks shouldn’t surprise anyone with an eye on IT markets. Both machine and deep learning efforts reflect the increasing interest and momentum around […]
The right data–used in the right way–can be crucial to making effective business decisions. Gathering the wrong metrics, or gathering too much data with no intelligent way to separate important or actionable information from trivial data can be devastating. Metrics
Decision-making is the very essence of business. Decisions matter, from setting out a company’s high-level strategic vision to executing on its most basic daily operations. Every decision is accompanied by uncertainty and risk, because decision-makers must simultaneously decide which paths
There’s a security revolution underway in the United States. In an attempt to reduce credit card fraud, retailers everywhere are transitioning from legacy magnetic strip cards to the more secure chip-and-PIN system. Under this new threat cyber criminals are picking
Human Identifiers Power Data Protection in the War on Rising Card Fraud Read More »
Four more states voted to make recreational marijuana use legal this year. It is still completely illegal in half of the country, and legal only for medical use in most states that allow it at all, but the movement is
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As the customer-centric approach has gained steam, business owners the world over have been intrigued by the purported benefits. But the big question hovers for many—does this approach really work? Well, the answer depends on how you think corporations like
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I had a ball at the Mercedes Advanced Driving Academy this week but, as I thought about it, they took a ton of avoidable risks that likely contributed to the one accident we had and the loss of a $70K
I’m a huge fan of candy, especially Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups–only the regular ones, or the Big Cups, or the holiday shapes like pumpkins and Easter eggs, though. The chocolate to peanut butter ratio doesn’t work for the mini Reese’s
Hershey Relies on Microsoft for Collaboration and Business Intelligence Read More »
Effective monitoring and alerting is essential to a stable, secure, operational IT environment. The problem is that there is so much happening so fast, and so much information coming from so many sources that IT personnel are often completely overwhelmed
BigPanda Wants to Help Prioritize Alerts that Matter Most Read More »
I’m at IBM Edge this week and in an IBM z Systems presentation. This is a bit of a “Back To The Future” segment for me because z Systems is the latest implementation of the IBM Mainframe which I first learned to
IBM z Systems: The Mainframe Comes Back With a Vengeance Read More »
