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Artificial intelligence is one of those terms that has experienced a degree of semantic slippage over the years. Originally, it referred to a machine that had an intelligence that the average person on the street would recognize as intelligent. In time, the various parts that would go to make up such a system: expert systems,Read more

In previous articles, we’ve often discussed decision making in business, and our emphasis has been on how data and analytics help human beings to make decisions. In many areas of decision making, having a human in the loop is detrimental. Humans are expensive and slow, especially when it comes to inputting, sharing, and processing largeRead more

Last week, NYI welcomed New Jersey’s hottest IT, Telecom and Mobile startups as part of New Jersey Tech Council’s sixth-annual Innovation Competition. The event took place Thursday, Oct. 4 at NYI Bridgewater, NYI’s 40,000 square foot facility in Bridgewater, New Jersey, approximately 40 miles from New York City. As in previous years, the event attractedRead more

Bridgewater, NJ October 2, 2012—NYI (www.nyi.net), a premier, business-critical datacenter services provider specializing in colocation, managed services, cloud computing, dedicated servers, and business continuity solutions since 1996, is hosting the New Jersey Technology Council’s (NJTC’s) sixth-annual IT, Telecom and Mobile Innovation Competition at NYI Bridgewater, Thursday, October 4. The event, begun in 2006, is aRead more

Apple has, in recent days, feasted on humble pie; even going so far as to issue an apology for the poor quality of their recently released mapping app when compared to its competitors. There are various factors that have contributed to the less than stellar launch, but prominent among them is the problem of dataRead more

We’ve often talked about how analytics can benefit business decision making, but we’ve not said a lot about how having access to data and analytics might affect decision making in our personal lives. Our on-board data collection and processing systems — body and brain — are notoriously unreliable and replete with kludgy heuristics that mightRead more

At NYI, we like to keep track of the most interesting news in the data center world, the FreeBSD community, and Big Data. Today, we’re going to give you a round-up of the most interesting and useful information we came across in the last month. We hope you find it as informative as we did.Read more

After days of false reports, it has finally been revealed that the cause of the recent GoDaddy outage wasn’t a hack attack, but an internal failure. Is such a revelation a surprise? Here are three reasons why it shouldn’t be: 1) Image Problems: The company that is synonymous with scantily clad women has reportedly beenRead more

Pentaho is the company behind a suite of open source data analytics tools that provide a comprehensive set of capabilities for business intelligence. Pentaho Business Analytics offers dashboarding, data integration and mining, and ETL services. As you’d expect, Pentaho has been looking at its own data and spotting trends that indicate a very healthy growthRead more

For those of us within the industry, it’s difficult to get a handle on the level of understanding that the ‘person in the street’ has for what we do. Even moderately technically adept people know the frustration of watching a casual computer user completely failing to take advantage of the efficiencies designed into technology. Who hasn’t beenRead more