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This Thanksgiving is particularly special. The reason is that we have even more to be grateful for this year. We’ve been through a great deal, especially in the past month, but thanks to the dedication of our staff, many of whom sacrificed time with their families, we were able to maintain the level of excellenceRead more

  NYI experienced no outages or compromise in service during Hurricane Sandy. Our customers, as a way of expressing their gratitude, took a few moments to send us some very encouraging words, which we’d like to share with you: “…a huge thanks to you and your team for keeping us up during the blackout!” –Read more

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

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