Andy Patrizio

Businesses that want to use AI run into a major roadblock: it’s too expensive to develop AI products in-house. Hence the demand for outsourced artificial intelligence products: It’s much cheaper for anyone from a SMB to a budget-constrained large enterprise to use the cloud to get its feet wet with AI. The major cloud computing […]

Artificial intelligence salaries benefit from the perfect recipe for a sweet paycheck: a hot field and high demand for scarce talent. It’s the ever-reliable law of supply and demand, and right now, anything artificial intelligence-related is in very high demand. According to Indeed.com, the average IT salary – the keyword is “artificial intelligence engineer” – […]

From established giants to notable startups, the following Blockchain companies are all playing a key role in shaping this emerging technology. Blockchain has become a significant technology for business because it promises trustworthy business transactions in a very untrustworthy environment. With its unalterable ledger that can only be added to, not edited, you have a […]

The artificial intelligence market is seeing enormous excitement and interest – and investment. Crunchbase, which follows the business of technology companies, puts the total amount of venture investment in AI in 2017 at just under $5 billion in approximately 750 companies, well up from the $3.3 billion in 450 companies in 2016. While there is […]

Infrastructure as a service, or IaaS, is the second-most basic cloud computing model available to customers, in that it provides just the virtualization platform and OS, and that’s it. What’s known as bare metal hosting is the simplest of all. You don’t even get a hypervisor or OS, you have to provide every last bit […]

Is Big Data vs. artificial intelligence even a fair comparison? To some degree it is, but first let’s cut through the confusion. Artificial Intelligence. Big Data. Those are two buzzwords you are hearing an awful lot lately, perhaps to the point of confusion. What are the similarities and differences between artificial intelligence and Big Data? […]

AWS CloudFormation is a leader in Infrastructure as Code (IAC), which greatly eases the process of provisioning IT resources in the cloud.  First, some background:  Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated backup is scalable, flexible and provides peace of mind. Cobalt Iron’s enterprise-grade backup and recovery […]

There is no question that the hybrid cloud is the cloud of choice for enterprises. Despite talk of shutting down their data centers and going pure public cloud, necessity is forcing companies to retain some data center equipment and applications. Many firms saw the cloud as an opportunity to get entirely out of owning and […]

The future of cloud computing is, to be sure, hotly contested. Indeed, the term “cloud” is an appropriate one because like the clouds in the sky, the cloud of technology is ever-changing and rearranging its shape. The winds and currents that guide cloud tech are business needs as companies come to terms with what the […]

Big Data tools, clearly, are proliferating quickly in response to major demand. In the decade since Big Data emerged as a concept and business strategy, thousands of tools have emerged to perform various tasks and processes, all of them promising to save you time, money and uncover business insights that will make you money. Clearly, […]