April 2016 – The scientific computing space and the content creation space relies heavily on engineering workstations. At the Nvidia GTC expo, Lenovo was showing their new series of compute and graphics centric workstations that connect to the central servers and the Nvidia appliances. The expo was showing the new line of portable workstations that…
April 2016 – The theme for this years Nvidia GTC conference was focused on AI and cognitive computing dir Neural Networks. While these are a core of their new direction for their computing appliances (Nvidia DGX-1) and high capacity devices (Tesla P100), the mainstay of the company which is graphics compute for scientific and media…
April 2016 – At the Nvidia GTC event in San Jose, IBM held a tutorial on the use of Watson in the cloud and the SDK and application areas that are best targeted to the platform. To support the community, IBM has introduced the developer cloud (https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercloud/) which is bringing cognitive computing to developer apps…
April 2016 – The Diamonds Unleashed program by Kara Ross held an event at The Battery in San Francisco celebrating women’s empowerment. The example at this event was the involvement by women pioneers in the rapidly emerging marketplace of Virtual Reality (VR). The event was presented in partnership with CanadaMark diamonds. The VR marketplace and…
March 2016 – The inaugural Silicon Valley Comic Con in San Jose the opening night event was highlighted by a talk from William Shatner. The event An Evening with William Shatner is a long running staple of “xxxCon” events. An Evening with William Shatner at the Inaugural SVCC 2016 Mr Shatner packed the room…
March 2016 – The Silicon Valley has long been recognized as center for technology. Now the area and all of the technology, science fiction and comic lovers can have their own event close to home. The first year of the soon to be annual SV Comic-Con was organized by Silicon Valley icon Steve Wozniak. The…
March 2016 – At GDC San Francisco a large number of inde developers and creators were showing off their games and accessories to publishers and tool developers. One of the areas of innovation was in the “non-standard controller section” of the show floor. There were several rows of these unique controllers that included a vacuum…
March 2016 – The ongoing success of the private sector relies in large measure on its ability to commercialize innovative research and intellectual property, business transactions, and financial data. Failing to secure this vital digital information, and the systems that hold it, inevitably leads to lost market share, fewer customers and corporate breakdown for the…
March 2016 – In the structuring of a security solution for an enterprise, reporting and documentation hold important roles as support for technology solutions. The reporting and operating procedures help designate the liability and cost of remediation in the event of a security incident. Prior to placing systems online, senior management should review privacy and…
March 2016 – A topic of discussion at the San Francisco RSA Conference this year was the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and issues related to it with the integration of security. Attackers leverage weaknesses in all platforms to pivot across the enterprise. System administrators and managers need solutions that allow them to monitor applications…