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Can we take stock of the state of artificial intelligence for a moment? Vendors are slapping the label on all kinds of products with pretty measly predictive potential. This isn’t just a ripoff; it could have disastrous business and societal impacts if …
To stay cutting-edge sharp, AT&T puts feelers in wilds of techland
Keeping up with the latest technological innovation can be challenging even for nimble startups. For a huge legacy company, folding bleeding-edge tech into the core of the business, it must put feelers out in the wilds of techland. This is how AT&T Inc. …
Think you’re mobile? You ain’t seen nothing till 5G drops
What’s with the hype around 5G networking? We’ve got 4G already. Is a single digit going to improve on it that massively? It is — in fact, it is more than a step up for networking; it’s a leap for society in …
First responders get their own network, no throttling with FirstNet
Congested networks are more than an inconvenience for ordinary mobile-phone users. They can cost lives in natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other situations that call for rapid coordination among emergency first respondents. A public-private initiative between AT&T Inc. and America’s public safety …
Open source is free like a puppy, but ROI is worth it, says Microsoft
Techies like to joke that open source is free like a puppy. Indeed, open-source communities — with their large, varied collections of code and rapid cadence of change — can extract a ton of hours and hassles from those using the technologies …
With 5G rollouts, ‘things are just going to work better’
Real, live 5G network services are coming. AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. just announced they’ll be rolling out advanced telecommunications plans for customers before New Year’s. But what’s the bigger picture for trending technologies such as artificial intelligence and self-driving cars? Obviously, …
Questioning “three-clicks-to-nirvana” data-protection startups
Many companies are in the dark about data protection. Some assume it’s part and parcel with their cloud infrastructure — and then a disaster prompts a rude awakening. Startups are cropping up to meet the need for data protection across clouds, but their …
Multicloud, data-serviced, container-capable — it’s not your daddy’s HCI
What EMC’s president of converged platforms and solutions, Chad Sakac, once described as a niche virtual desktop infrastructure solution has traveled a long way. A swelling number of companies are coming to see hyperconverged infrastructure as the linchpin in their hybrid cloud strategy. …
Red Hat brings controlled open-source chaos to multicloud
For all the buzz around open-source technologies, they can be a hot mess for enterprises to actually put into production. Red Hat Inc. stands out in the industry for its success in profitably slinging open source to customers in managed packages. Can …
Nonprofit Mercy Ships stretches donor dollars with HCI
Many organizations with space constraints have opted for turn-key hyperconverged infrastructure appliances. A nonprofit organization with tricky space and logistics issues and a duty to stretch donor dollars must get a wallop of performance out of its information technology stack. Just ask …