Multi-cloud: The New Normal

by on July 14, 2017 10:50 am
Mr.Carl Eschenbach of Sequoia Capital mentioned in his guest lecture about a Cloud OS that can move workloads around different clouds and also how AI can be used as a unique selling point for cloud vendors to differentiate themselves from their competition. This blog post will firstly give an overview of current cloud technologies then… Read more Multi-cloud: The New Normal

Brains vs computers?

by on July 14, 2017 10:42 am
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.” Quote attributed to Albert Einstein. This article aims at introducing the ambiguous relationship between human brains and modern computers. Brains vs computers How different are they? How can one help another? Although they both… Read more Brains vs computers?

Dude, where’s my server?

by on July 14, 2017 10:29 am
By 2020 one million new devices are expected to come online every hour (Source: Gartner). What impact will this have for how data is generated, stored, and accessed? The answer, huge. Jeff Wesler, Vice President and Lab Director – IBM Research, recently shared a few facts that can give insight into why our mobile habits… Read more Dude, where’s my server?

Silicon Valley – How Success Built Success in the Technology Hub

by on July 14, 2017 10:15 am
Silicon Valley hasn’t always been a software hub, but started to grow as the mainframe era of IT rose. Russia launched Sputnik 1 in 1957 and America lost the space race and were more ready than ever to fund the resources to beat them. NASA was established in 1958, and one of the three research… Read more Silicon Valley – How Success Built Success in the Technology Hub

Data: An expensive necessity for AI and Machine Learning

by on July 14, 2017 9:53 am
AI and Machine Learning are two big buzzwords within Information Technology and StartUps.  Since 2002 more then $3.8B have been raised by AI companies [10]. Nonetheless the biggest players are established companies such as Google, Facebook etc.. This might just be temporarily as they have the “benefit” of size and economics, but some argue that… Read more Data: An expensive necessity for AI and Machine Learning

Data at the Edge – but what does it mean?

by on July 14, 2017 9:19 am
The guest speaker Dr. Jeff Welser, Vice President and Lab Director at IBM Research Almaden, spoke about a new era of computing. He is certain that after the present era of Cloud and Mobile Computing  the prevalent information technology paradigm is all about “Data at the edge”. One of his headlines states: “Data at the… Read more Data at the Edge – but what does it mean?

Rethinking Computing Itself

by on July 14, 2017 7:58 am
“The fundamental building blocks of our world are quantum mechanical, if you look at a molecule, the reason molecules form and are stable is because of the interactions of these electron orbitals. Each calculation in there, each orbital, is a quantum mechanical calculation” Dario Gil, VP for science and solutions at IBM Research [4] Since… Read more Rethinking Computing Itself

Fog Computing: Extending the Cloud?

by on July 14, 2017 7:32 am
In the past ten years, the usage of cloud-based systems to build applications and store data has exploded.  As Dr. Jeff Welser of IBM discussed in his presentation on 7 July 2017, the amount of computer power at the edge of the internet exceeds that of all the computers in all the world’s data centers.… Read more Fog Computing: Extending the Cloud?

Is open source software worth investing in?

by on July 14, 2017 6:34 am
Did you know that three out of four key developers of LAMP stack components (an open source web platform for websites and servers) are Nordic? Linus (Linux) and Monty (MySQL) are Finns, whereas Rasmus (PHP) is a Dane. This development highlights the nature of the Nordic startup with active internal and external communication resulting in… Read more Is open source software worth investing in?

Cognitive Computing: Augmenting Human Intelligence

by on July 14, 2017 5:58 am
What Exactly Is Cognitive Computing?   Cognitive computing (CC) is the simulation of human thought processes in a computer model. It is a technology platform based on the scientific disciplines of artificial intelligence and signal processing. In summary, a cognitive computer ploughs through un/structured data, to find hidden knowledge and present data in an actionable… Read more Cognitive Computing: Augmenting Human Intelligence