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Marketplaces Are Changing the Way We Do Enterprise IT

In one of my latest reports ( Key Criteria for Evaluating Unstructured Data Management ), one of the key criteria was the availability of a marketplace. Adding functionalities to your infrastructure quickly, without having to go through a complex purchase, installation, and configuration process is invaluable. App stores in the consumer space changed the way users purchase and consume software and services. The same happened in the public cloud, with almost all cloud providers offering pre-packaged, tested, integrated solutions to seamlessly expand their ecosystem. More so, these add-ons are often billed with the rest of the services offered by the provider, simplifying the payment process. Now we are seeing the same thing happening with hybrid and traditional IT solutions. Last week, for example, while I was attending Cloud Field Day 7, VMware showed its marketplace for VMware Cloud on AWS, and today I saw the Red Hat Marketplace during a presentation at Tech Filed Day Virtual for

Voices in AI – Episode 112: A Conversation with David Weinberger

[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode On Episode 112 of Voices in AI , Byron speaks with fellow author and technologist David Weinberger about the nature of intelligence artificial, and otherwise. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI, brought to you by GigaOm, and I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is David Weinberger. He is the guy that likes to explore the effects of technology on ideas. He’s a senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and was co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and a Journalism Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center. Dr. Weinberger has been a marketing VP and adviser to high tech companies, an adviser to presidential campaigns and a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department. Welcome to the show, Dr. Weinberger. David Weinberger: Hi Byron. So, when did you first hear about AI? Well about AI… Well was it 1956? That’s wha

Look at All This Oil

It’s not like the oil industry was doing well before the Covid-19 pandemic began, but this absurd footage makes it all the more clear that it’s in an unprecedented crisis. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/04/look-at-all-this-oil/

Net Art Vs. the Art World

Anthony Antonellis conjures mirages of wealth out of websites, as though satirising audiences who can’t appreciate work without a big price tag. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/04/net-art-vs-the-art-world/

Rick and Morty Returns to the UK on 7th May

Earlier this month E4 confirmed that the second half of  Rick and Morty's fourth season would be arriving on the channel in May and today E4 has confirmed that things kick off on 7th May - which is just four days after the next new episodes debuts in the US. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/04/rick-and-morty-season-4-uk-may/

Amazon Employees Plan Virtual Walkout Over Firings of Employees Critical of Warehouse Conditions

The collective digital “sick-out” is being organised to protest the recent firing of two employees who raised concerns over lack of protections for workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/04/amazon-employees-plan-virtual-walkout-over-firings-of-employees-critical-of-warehouse-conditions/

Voices in AI – Episode 111: A Conversation with Robert Brooker

[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode On Episode 111 of Voices in AI , Byron discusses the nature of intelligence and Artificial Intelligence within the industrial internet with Robert Booker of Win-911. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm, and I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Robert Brooker. He is the Chairman of WIN-911, a technology company and part of the whole ‘industrial internet’ with offices in the US in Austin, Texas and in Mexico and Asia and in Europe. He holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard as well as an MBA from the same institution. He is a person with an amazing entrepreneurial past. He is said to have brought the bagel to Eastern Europe. Although he denies it, some people say he brought the hookah to the United States. I’m excited to have him on the show. Welcome to the show, Robert. Robert: It’s nice to be here, Byron. You’ve hear