MSC Cruises — the world’s largest privately-owned cruise liner — will launch its latest vessel next month, promising to showcase investments in a range of digital technologies. Guests and crew members onboard the MSC Meraviglia will have access services that rely on mobile apps, facial recognition, IoT beacons, and wearable technology, all aimed at improving…
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 —…
You won’t need to buy a rack of 400 servers if you have one high-powered Nvidia DGX-1 supercomputer with a Volta GPU sitting on your desktop. The DGX-1 supercomputer — which looks like a regular rack server — gets most of its computing power from eight Tesla V100 GPUs. The GPU, the first one based…
Microsoft is making it easier for developers to manage their cloud deployments on the go, using a new mobile app and browser-based command line. On Wednesday, the company unveiled Azure Cloud Shell, which lets developers spin up a full-fledged terminal environment inside Microsoft’s cloud and comes with a set of preconfigured tools for managing deployments.…
We all know Google search is the best way to find news, concert clips, and funny cat GIFs, but when it comes to local happenings, it can be hit or miss. But a new feature baked into Google’s search tools on your phone is designed to fill up your social calendar. In the latest update…
Tesco is starting to incorporate machine learning algorithms across the business, from internal applications such as driver routing to customer-facing apps like integration, with Google’s home assistant device. First, the online grocery and clothing seller had to lay the groundwork for machine learning techniques to be brought into the organisation, and this meant getting its…
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…
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 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…
Developers will have an easier time scaling their applications to meet global needs with a database product Microsoft updated on Wednesday. Called Cosmos DB, the service lets developers store data that can be replicated across any of the company’s 34 Azure public cloud regions. Cosmos is an expansion of DocumentDB, a managed NoSQL database service…