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AI: a practical guide
AI is suddenly everywhere, but what does it mean exactly, and what opportunities does it promise? |  |
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Netreo
How to manage application performance in the hybrid cloud
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Remotely safe?
Domenico Crapanzano at Fing reflects on the cyber risk of home working and employee-owned devices
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Digital communication: the next step
Freight-forwarder, Marine Transport International is putting container shipping onto the blockchain in order to provide a secure and transparent way of decentralising digital communication
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Welcome to the February 2018 Newsletter.
It’s not the rise of the machines but rather the rise of machine learning and AI that we’re keeping a keen eye on here at Network Computing. We’re introducing a regular new feature on AI in the Jan/Feb issue of the magazine, and to get the ball rolling we’ve included an article here by Piers Stobbs, Chief Data Officer at Moneysupermarket Group, that offers a practical introduction to the subject.
I think many of us find artificial intelligence a fascinating subject in and of itself, but what are it’s potential practical applications for the IT infrastructure? As Piers explains in his article, “To understand if AI can help a given problem, characterise the problem along two dimensions: how obvious is the answer and how many times do you have to perform it? If the answer to the problem is relatively obvious to a human and is a task that is completed frequently, then it is likely that AI will help.” It’s a question we’ll be returning to in future issues.
Elsewhere this month we look at how machine learning is beginning to make its virtual presence felt in cybersecurity. Barry Scott, CTO at Centrify EMEA explains how machine learning’s ability to model behaviour patterns by “sifting through mountains of data that would prove impossible for humans to analyse” can be applied to identity and access management, given the right programming skill and technical knowledge. Skynet here we come?
Lastly, a little reminder that voting for the 2018 Network Computing Awards closes on March 13th, so please do visit us online before then to cast yours!.
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