Daily Archives: September 13, 2016

Micro Engines Of The Economy

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Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. According to the Small Business Administration, there are 28 million small businesses (with 500 or fewer employees) in the United States, representing 54% of all U.S. sales.  These small businesses represent 49.2% of all employment and 64% of net new jobs in the private sector.

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Content Delivery Drives The Move To The Cloud

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The Internet is playing an increasing role in the media and entertainment industry. It provides rapid transport of information between connected devices and data centers, it is the basis for todays growing over the top (OTT) content delivery, and it is the basis of collaborative workflows that span space and time and a move to operating rather than capital storage investments.

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CIO Michael Heim Drives IoT Innovation At Whirlpool

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When Michael Heim joined $21 billion revenue Whirlpool Corporation nearly four and a half years ago, he found an Information Technology organization in need of modernization. This included the technology itself, but it also included the culture. Knowing that the first was more influential than the second, he got to work in establishing a culture of accountability. He made it safe for people to put up their hands if they felt they needed assistance, knowing this was the fastest route to an honest dialogue and to better performance.

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Intel And NVIDIA Vie For Attention For ‘The Next Big Thing’

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In a battle that has become somewhat predictable, but fun to watch, NVIDIA and Intel have recently announced new technologies and acquisitions, respectively, to compete in the fast growing market for Deep Learning in Artificial Intelligence (AI). These announcements demonstrate that both companies are doubling down on their strategies: NVIDIA intends to win with a portfolio of hardware and software based on a common GPU architecture, while Intel intends to compete with CPUs (Xeon and Xeon Phi) beefed up with application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).

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