Gap explains how a retail customer can give back to OpenStack

American retail giant Gap deployed its first OpenStack cloud in 2013, but now the vast majority of its forward-facing e-commerce platforms now run on the open source infrastructure. Eli Elliott, infrastructure architect responsible for private cloud at Gap, explained to Computerworld UK how the company’s close partnership with Rackspace — among other OpenStack vendors —…

VMware unveils the latest nervous system for enterprise IoT

The internet of things seems tailor-made for management headaches. Having thousands of tiny devices distributed across a city or a company is hard enough. Then there’s the whole infrastructure supporting them, including network connections and edge gateways. Some big players, including General Electric, Nokia, and Cisco’s Jasper division, have products and services for running all…

Hottest news from OpenStack Summit

OpenStack Summit convenes in Boston Image by OpenStack Twice a year the OpenStack community gathers for its Summit in which users, vendors and the programmers that build the open source IaaS cloud computing software talk about OpenStack’s progress and plan future releases. This week than 5,000 attendees from 63 countries descended on Boston and more…

IBM's new PowerAI tools automate image recognition

IBM is trying to remove some of the complications related to image recognition with new tools to automate critical machine learning tasks. A major update of the company’s PowerAI tools has a feature called AI Vision, an auto tuner that makes it easy to identify and classify pictures. It will also speed up image recognition by…