James Kobielus

James Kobielus is @theCUBE and Wikibon lead analyst for AI, data, data science, deep learning and application development. Previously, Jim was IBM Corp.'s data science evangelist. He managed IBM's thought leadership, social and influencer marketing programs targeted at developers of big data analytics, machine learning and cognitive computing applications. Prior to his five-year stint at IBM, Jim was an analyst at Forrester Research, Current Analysis and the Burton Group. He is also a prolific blogger, a popular speaker and a familiar face from his many appearances as an expert on theCUBE and at industry events.

Latest from James Kobielus

At DataWorks 2018, Hortonworks accelerates its shift toward public cloud deployments

BIG DATA By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

DataWorks Summit began as Hadoop Summit in 2008, when it was a developer event hosted by Yahoo Inc. The big-data market exploded as established data vendors and hot startups spawned a dynamo of innovation, and the core technology evolved and eventually gave …

Principles versus profit: AI and the fate of the planet

EMERGING TECH By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

It seems as if everybody is starting to look at artificial intelligence as some sort of make-or-break technology for the human race. Where the fate of the planet is concerned, there is an increasing collision between the nationalistic view that AI’s overriding …

Stream computing transforms businesses into digital dynamos

BIG DATA By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Digital businesses succeed by achieving greater real-time intimacy with their customers across every touchpoint and channel. And nothing delivers that intimacy — plus speedier business insights and faster business results — quite like stream computing. In the 21st century, stream computing is …

Apple seems to be losing its capacity to innovate

APPS By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. has long been known as an innovator, but it seems to be losing its way. At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference this past week in San Jose, California, Apple disappointed many industry observers who expected, or at least hoped, it …

Databricks goes well beyond Spark into complex, multicloud AI pipelines

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Apache Spark was the pinnacle of advanced analytics just a few years ago. As the primary developer of this technology, Databricks Inc. has played a key role both in its commercial adoption, in the evolution of the community’s underlying open-source codebase, and in …

Microsoft’s GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem

APPS By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

The open-source developer community now confronts an acquisition of seismic impact. Today, Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement to acquire San Francisco-based open-source development community GitHub Inc. for $7.5 billion. Just as Oracle Corp.’s 2009 acquisition of the Sun Microsystems Inc.-developed Java sent shockwaves …

Machine learning is becoming a strategic perimeter for GDPR compliance

EMERGING TECH By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Privacy advocates have placed an unfair stigma on machine learning. Despite what you may have heard through the mass media, ML is not some fiendish tool for invading people’s privacy. Regardless, now that European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has taken effect, there’s …

AI is becoming the nucleus of intelligent apps for robotic process automation

EMERGING TECH By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Robotic process automation, software that emulates how people carry out tasks in a process, is becoming one of the principal enterprise use cases for artificial intelligence. Established RPA solution providers are becoming prominent players in the cloud application development arena. Chief companies …

Securing the ‘internet of things’ from edge to edge

EMERGING TECH By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Securing everything everywhere is the ultimate pipe dream. Nevertheless, securing every “thing” is becoming a critical issue as we move into the era of the “Internet of things.” Security is critical to IoT’s adoption because we want to make sure we can …

Now that GDPR’s regulatory hammer has officially come down, what’s your next step?

BIG DATA By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

After many months of anticipation, preparation and sometimes panic, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect today. GDPR is a legal framework for processing, movement and use of personal data in the EU, with allowances for data transfers outside the union. …

James Kobielus

Latest from James Kobielus

Stream computing transforms businesses into digital dynamos

Apple seems to be losing its capacity to innovate

Databricks goes well beyond Spark into complex, multicloud AI pipelines

Microsoft’s GitHub takeover sends shockwaves through the open-source developer ecosystem

Machine learning is becoming a strategic perimeter for GDPR compliance

AI is becoming the nucleus of intelligent apps for robotic process automation

Securing the ‘internet of things’ from edge to edge

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