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In my last blog , I talked about some of the hype going on in the industry over artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The blog gets into what the current AI techniques are capable of on a fundamental level today, and I also offered a definition for these often-misunderstood terms in the context of data centers. In this post, I’d like to develop the discussion by describing 3 key challenges that the industry needs to address and resolve if AI tools are to be broadly adopted to achieve their full value for colocation providers. Three Things to Overcome Before Broad AI Adoption The first challenge is instrumenting the data center. The old adage “garbage in, garbage out” applies here more than ever. Despite their “black box” nature, machine learning algorithms and deep neural networks are not magic. Like any analytics engine, they need large volumes of good data to act on. Those with well implemented DCIM suites are probably in good shape. But part of this challenge ...

Grassroots Group Confronts Privacy-Invasive WiFi Kiosks in New York  Free WiFi all across New York City? It might sound like a dream to many New Yorkers, until the public learned that it wasn’t “free” at all. LinkNYC, a communications network that is replacing public pay phones with WiFi kiosks across New York City, is paid for by advertising that tracks users, festooned with cameras and microphones, and has questionable processes for allowing the public to influence its data handling policies. These kiosks also gave birth to ReThink LinkNYC, a grassroots community group that’s uniting New Yorkers from different backgrounds in standing up for their privacy. In a recent interview with EFF, organizers Adsilla Amani and Mari Dej described the organization as a “hodgepodge of New Yorkers” who were shocked by the surveillance-fueled WiFi kiosks entering their neighborhoods. More importantly, they saw opportunity. As Dej described, “As we began scratching the surface, [we] saw that ...

Open Access Weathers a Governmental Sea Change: 2017 in Review In the first few weeks of 2017, just days after President Donald Trump took office, reports emerged that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture were instructing scientists on staff not to talk to the public or the press. The reports raised serious questions among open access advocates: what does it mean to advocate for public access to publicly funded scientific research at a time when the future of public funding for science itself is in question? Put most simply, open access is the practice of making research and other materials freely available online, ideally under licenses that allow anyone to share and adapt them. Open access publishing has long been the center of a debate over the future of academic publishing: on one side of the debate sit citizen scientists, journalists, and other members of the public eager to access and use scientific research even though they can’t afford e...