My last article of 2017 was a recap of AI World, and my first article of 2018 was about the developments in AI technology that have been achieved so far. Now I’d like to close out my conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) by recapping some of the notes from the presentations and talking about where …
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Stephen Beaver is the co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center and Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration as well as being contributing author of Mastering VMware vSphere 4 and How to Cheat at Configuring VMware ESX Server. Stephen is an IT Veteran with over 15 years experience in the industry. Stephen is a moderator on the VMware Communities Forum and was elected vExpert for 2009 and 2010. Stephen can also be seen regularly presenting on different topics at national and international virtualization conferences.
Out with the Old and In with the New
Out with the old and in with the new, Happy New Year everyone. My final post of 2017 was a general overview of the AI World conference and for my first post of 2018 I wanted to dig a little deeper into the developments in AI technology as I believe that Artificial Intelligence will be something to keep an eye on as the technology continues to mature well into the next decade and beyond.
AI World 2017
AI World 2017: Have you heard about or did you get to attend the AI World Conference and Expo that was in Boston Massachusetts from December 11th – December 13th, 2017? If you have not heard of AI World before then you might be wondering what the conference is all about. An overview of the conference, taken from the brochure, states “AI World is the industry’s largest independent event focused on the state of the practice of enterprise AI and machine learning.
Recap of re:Invent
Recap of re:Invent: One of the last, if not the last technology conference for the year 2017 just recently came to a close. The Amazon AWS re:Invent Technology Conference was held from November 27th – December 1st in Las Vegas, Nevada and I wanted to share some of my key points that I have gathered about the conference.
Another Side of the Net Neutrality Debate
My friend and colleague Tom Howarth published an article titled Net Neutrality Threatened as FCC Plans Internet Fast Lanes. In his post, Tom did a very good job articulating the pro–net neutrality arguments. I thought this would be a good opportunity to present the other side of the net neutrality argument, but in the midst of my research I found that my positions and views on this matter are moving in a different direction.
In the Midst of a Generational Shift
Information technology is an industry that is known, recognized, and often referred to as the industry of change. That recognition is well deserved, when you think about all the changes that happen within a relatively short amount of time. Physical hardware has refresh cycles of between three and five years.