SysAdminNews 2017 Archive

Fighting Storage I/O Bottlenecks?
SolarWinds® Storage Performance Monitor free tool lets you monitor IOPS and throughput of your multi-vendor storage devices to pinpoint areas needing extra attention. With this free tool, you’ll be able to view key storage array metrics, specify critical thresholds to prompt an alert, and set custom polling and discovery intervals..

Date: 2017-12-11


Secure and Manage Apple Devices at Work
Jamf Now is a device management solution for your Macs, iPads and iPhones. It’s cloud-based, so you can manage and protect your devices anytime from anywhere.

Date: 2017-09-27


Microsoft Outlook Now Supports A Variety Of Third Party Add-in Apps For Android
Microsoft just revved up its Outlook Android app making it more productive and fun for users. In a recent announcement, the tech giant announced that it has updated the software to now support a variety of third party add-in apps.

Date: 2017-09-12


Microsoft Teaming Up With Amazon’s AI Assistants
Usually, tech companies keep each other at arm’s length, unwilling to share new technologies with the hope of besting their competitors. However, it appears that Microsoft and Amazon, two of the major players in the AI digital assistant arena, are bent on bucking the trend. Apparently, both companies want their respective assistants, Cortana and Alexa, to get friendly with each other.

Date: 2017-09-01


Amazon To brace For a Serious Contender with Microsoft’s Recent Acquisition of Cycle Computing
Among the top players in the tech industry, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the undisputed king of cloud computing, leading the pack by a wide margin in the relatively new but lucrative segment. However, rivals do not plan to let AWS reign unchallenged. In fact, analysts believe that the Amazon will have to brace for a serious contender soon with Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Cycle Computing, which aims to revamp the services being offered by its own cloud computing platform, Microsoft Azure.

Date: 2017-08-21


Facebook’s AI Bots Have Invented A Language Of Their Own
Would you terminate your employees if they started keeping secrets from you? Basically, Facebook did just that when two of its experimental AI bots started to converse in a language totally alien and undecipherable to researchers.zure.

Date: 2017-08-01


Google Unveils Initiative to Improve Relationship Between Humans and AI
Google announced Monday a new initiative geared towards improving the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence (AI).

Date: 2017-07-11


Tips for Building the Perfect Chatbot
Chatbots are becoming more sophisticated and are changing the way people communicate on the internet. Although relatively new, chatbots hold a lot of promise and are bound to change the way business owners conduct online marketing.

Date: 2017-07-03


Facebook Uses AI to Combat Terrorism
In the wake of recent terror attacks, Facebook has issued a statement through their newsroom on countering radicalization. The social media platform is immensely popular, with worldwide users reaching 1.94 billion each month. It also can’t be denied that even terrorist groups have easy access to their website. As a result, Facebook has been faced with criticisms over their lack of efforts to eradicate terrorist propaganda from their pages.

Date: 2017-06-16


Apple Shares Code For Machine Learning Framework at WWDC 2017
Apple’s recent WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) saw the unheralded release of Core ML, which will reportedly make it easier for developers to come up with machine learning tools across the Apple ecosystem.

Date: 2017-06-12


Microsoft Releases Latest Surface Pro With 13-Hour Battery Life
Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Pro during a recent event in Shanghai, touting faster performance for the gadget on the strength of its seventh-generation Intel Core processor.

Date: 2017-05-26


Microsoft Promises Stability And Security As It Launches Windows 10 S
Microsoft has promised stability and security to users as it launched Windows 10 S, a stripped down operating system (OS), to ward off the increasing threat posed by Google Chrome OS.

Date: 2017-05-05


Google Announces the Release of Google Assistant SDK
Google today announced the release of the Google Assistant SDK. The SDK will allow developers to include Google Assistant interactions in their hardware prototypes.

Date: 2017-04-27


Marketers Aren’t Utilizing the Capabilities and Advantages of Email Metrics
An extensive study recently released by GetRepsone and SmartInsights shows that while email is clearly the most effective marketing channel, marketers overall aren’t fully utilizing the available capabilities and advantages of email metrics..

Date: 2017-04-05


The Google Fred Algorithm Update Has Been Confirmed
An update to the Google algorithm reported to have begun on March 7th has been confirmed by a Google’s Gary Illyes.

Date: 2017-03-28


Simple Typo Lead To Amazon’s Big Mishap
In a follow up to Tuesday’s significant disruption of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company announced yesterday that the reason for the mishap was due to human-error…a typo to be exact.

Date: 2017-03-03


Apple Releasing Its Research On Artificial Intelligence
Earlier this month Apple pledged to start publicly releasing its research on artificial intelligence. During the holiday week, Apple has released its first AI research paper detailing how its engineers and computer scientists used adversarial training to improve the typically poor quality of synthetic, computer game style images, which are frequently used to help machines learn.

Date: 2017-02-13


Watson Brings AI to H&R Block
IBM announced a partnership with H&R block to use their artificial intelligent platform IBM Watson to radically improve tax preparation. “Introducing the biggest advancement in tax preparation technology,” exclaimed IBM in an announcement video. “Say hello to the partnership between H&R Block and IBM Watson. Imagine being able to understand all 74,000 pages of the US tax code along with thousands of yearly tax law changes and other information, plus locks deep insights built from over 600 million data points.”

Date: 2017-02-06


Google Releases Technical Guide for Moving to the Cloud
Google has created a guide in the form of a website for companies that are considering a move to their cloud called Google Cloud Platform for Data Center Professionals.

Date: 2017-01-30


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