All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Late last week, OpenAI confirmed it shuttered its robotics division in part due to difficulties in collecting the data necessary to break through technical barriers. After years of research into machines that can learn to perform tasks like […]
Category: Big Data
Airbnb CTO says graph neural networks will be big in 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Executives have to prioritize whether to experiment with cutting-edge technologies or wait to see results from other implementations first, Airbnb chief technology officer Vanja Josifovski said in a conversation with VentureBeat founder and CEO Matt Marshall at VentureBeat’s […]
Why unstructured data is the future of data management
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Enterprises are increasingly relying on unstructured data for regulatory, analytic, and decision-making purposes. Unstructured data will power analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence. According to the latest figures from research firm ITC, the volume of unstructured data is […]
Equipping AI with emotional intelligence can improve outcomes
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. There is a significant gap between an organization’s ambitions for using artificial intelligence (AI) and the reality of how those projects turn out, Intel chief data scientist Dr. Melvin Greer said in a conversation with VentureBeat founder and […]
Dremio launches data lake service running on AWS cloud
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Dremio today launched a cloud service that creates a data lake based on an in-memory SQL engine that launches queries against data stored in an object-based storage system. The goal is to make it easier for organizations to […]
Microsoft doubles down on cybersecurity with CloudKnox acquisition
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Microsoft today announced that it acquired CloudKnox Security, a platform designed to protect resources and identities across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments. With the purchase, the terms of which weren’t disclosed, Microsoft says that Azure customers will be […]
Freshworks: 93% of IT managers have deployed AI, or plan to soon
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nearly all IT managers (93%) are currently exploring or deploying some level of AI to streamline help desk systems, according to a new report from Freshworks. Half of IT managers said they have already implemented AI tools. Nearly […]
Employees want more AI to boost productivity, study finds
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Eighty-one percent of employees believe AI improves their overall performance at work. As a result, more than two-thirds (68%) are calling on their employers to deploy more AI-based technologies to help them execute tasks. That’s the top-level finding […]
Beyond Cryptocurrency: The Impact of Blockchain on the Financial Services Industry
Most people have by now heard of blockchain, the technology which creates a shared, distributed ledger of transactions over a decentralized peer-to-peer network. A blockchain is a corruption-resistant string of ledger entries shared over a network by multiple parties. It is a foundational internet meta-technology that will enable a broad […]
Digital threads link workflows across users
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. The recent Esri User Conference 2021 was a major event for virtual replicates of real-world entities, called digital twins. Real-world digital apps are also beginning to benefit from a complementary technology known as digital threads. Digital threads provide […]