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Pure Storage targets high end of AI market with Hyperscale AIRI

March 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage targets high end of AI market with Hyperscale AIRI
In addition to these new hyperconverged models produced with partners NVIDIA and Mellanox, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, an AI-optimized version of their Cisco-focused converged offering.

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Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event

March 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.

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Bot enhancements, SMS support and Zapier platform integration highlight new release of Comm100 platform

January 31, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bot enhancements, SMS support and Zapier platform integration highlight new release of Comm100 platform
This is the last big improvement to the Comm100 customer experience platform before a next-gen version is introduced in about four months.

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ZeroStack continues to execute on as-a-service offering strategy for partners with new AI-as-a-Service

December 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ZeroStack continues to execute on as-a-service offering strategy for partners with new AI-as-a-Service
ZeroStack plans to roll more services out in the year, indicating some likely possibilities, as part of their strategy of providing MSP partners with more services they can sell on the scale-out private cloud they enable customers to create.

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HPE highlights memory-driven computing in cutting edge genomic research at HPE Discover

December 3, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE highlights memory-driven computing in cutting edge genomic research at HPE Discover
Biotech startup Jungla is the first HPE customer to use the new Memory-Driven Computing Sandbox, to accelerate processing of individualized genomic testing data by more than 200 times compared with traditional hardware, taking the time needed to get results from around 250 days to as little as a day.

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Changing AI market impacts SAS strategy and channel

November 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Changing AI market impacts SAS strategy and channel
SAS has reacted to the huge changes in the market around artificial intelligence, by rethinking how they approach the market, and how they sell into it.

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Canada still not tapping into full potential of artificial intelligence

November 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canada still not tapping into full potential of artificial intelligence
SAS Canada’s AI Executive event on Wednesday focused on how Canadian companies can best use AI to drive business outcomes. However, SAS also emphasized data that indicate that to date, that hasn’t been happening in Canada, which lags globally when it comes to adoption in production environments.

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SAS Canada delivers Artificial Intelligence for the real world session for customers at Toronto event

November 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAS Canada delivers Artificial Intelligence for the real world session for customers at Toronto event
SAS provided their business audience with industry and academic perspectives on deriving value from AI, and then related it specifically to best practices that organizations can use to make it part of their business strategy.

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Veritas brings new predictive analytics to appliances

November 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Veritas brings new predictive analytics to appliances
Veritas Predictive Insights will be a core, free feature of their appliances, beginning initially with NetBackup Appliances and extending to Access and Flex appliances next year.

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HCI vendor Maxta deepens analytics capabilities with new MxIQ analytics-insight platform

November 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on HCI vendor Maxta deepens analytics capabilities with new MxIQ analytics-insight platform
Maxta provided analytics previously, but it was limited to data on an individual cluster, MxIQ broadens this to add metrics from additional clusters and additional data, to provide a greater degree of visibility and insight.