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Machine Learning is alive and well in 2017

IBM Stacks Memory Cells to Boost Flash Capacity

All-flash platforms are steadily being used to drive down the cost and infrastructure required to store soaring data volumes as more enterprises shift to hybrid cloud infrastructure. Recent technology advances involving Read more…

Gartner: Top Storage Vendors Taming Unstructured Data

Object storage and distributed file systems are being enlisted to handle the growing volumes of unstructured data in enterprise datacenters, market analyst Gartner Inc. notes in an annual survey of the evolving storage m Read more…

Fake News, AI, and the Search for Truth

Multiple weaknesses were exposed in public institutions in connection with last year's election. First, cybercriminals tried to hack the outcome, then pollsters failed to read voter sentiment accurately. Finally, fake ne Read more…

Object Storage Ecosystem Grows While Standardizing and Consolidating, IDC Says

The object storage system landscape has changed dramatically in the past year thanks to consolidation of the players involved and technological standardization, IDC says in its latest report. Object-based storage syst Read more…

Big Genomics Data Gets a Storage Boost

Bio-processor developer Edico Genome is collaborating with storage specialist Dell EMC to bundle computing and storage platform for analyzing gene-sequencing data. The partners said this week the platform will be base Read more…

Six Data Science Lessons from the Epic Polling Failure

Big data analytics suffered a huge setback on Tuesday when nearly every political poll failed to predict the outcome of the presidential election. The epic failure not only stunned a nation that expected Hillary Clinton Read more…

Is Spinning Disk Going Extinct? Experts Weigh In

There's no doubt about it: Spinning disk is getting squeezed. As fast solid state drives (SSDs) get cheaper and tape drives get bigger, the sweet spot where spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) make sense gets smaller every Read more…

Inside Dell EMC’s New Soup-to-Nuts Data Science Platform

Dell EMC today unveiled a new converged platform that combines the hardware and software data scientists need into a single package. By enabling data scientists to self-provision a set of cultivated Hadoop resources, the Read more…