May 25 is just around the corner. This is the day when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation [EU] 2016/679) becomes enforceable. That is correct: this regulation replaced the 1995 Data Protection Directive on April 27, 2016, but the transition period is now almost over, and it really is time to start worrying about potential …
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Recently I was invited to participate as a delegate at Tech Field Day 16 in Austin, Texas, where we visited with Forcepoint. Forcepoint is a company with a combined portfolio that includes user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA). UEBA’s primary focus is determining what is normal for a user and then deciding if a given …
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There are many ways to define scale. There is scale related to business, there is scale related to IT, and there is scale related to business functions. Actually, when you get right down to it, there are a number of ways to define scale. It depends entirely on your point of view. Given this, there …
In our Stages of AI article, we discussed the stages of getting to AI. Most systems are not yet true AI; they are perhaps second-order machine learning. To branch out to AI, you must be able to train a tool to do something for you, on your behalf, without human corrections. That training is turning out …
The container space is starting to heat up. For a quick review on containers—what they are and when to use them—review my colleague’s article here. Docker is starting to seem increasingly isolated in this space, which it dominated with its early mover advantage before appearing to get sideswiped by the later entrants.
There are many folks who consider AI to be the end all of analytics. I could not agree more. However, are we at AI yet, or is there more to AI than we have today? Artificial intelligence has been a goal for decades. What has changed to make it potentially possible? How does it apply …
