BlueData Invites AI/ML Developers to Play in Its BDaaS Sandbox

BlueData, which offers a new-gen big-data-as-a-service (BDaaS) software platform, has made available a new environment for AI and machine-learning developers to try out new ideas and have fun testing them. This is a new turnkey package that enables accelerated deployment of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning applications in the enterprise. Turns out you can’t build these applications too quickly. They’re too much in demand from all sectors of the IT world. And once one is up and running, the next one is ready to come into action. The BlueData AI/ML Accelerator, introduced May 31, includes the software and professional services to deploy containerized multi-node sandbox environments for exploratory use cases with TensorFlow and other ML/DL tools, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said. Convergence of Factors Enabing AI/ML Everywhere: The promise of AI has been around for several decades, but it was only recently that it has started to become more widely adopted in the enterprise due to the convergence of several factors: faster networking, piles of new data, more powerful but cooler-running processors, virtually infinite storage, vast improvement in cloud services and faster mobile devices. Now AI is being explored and implemented for digital transformation initiatives in nearly every industry, using innovative new open source tools and algorithms for ML / DL, the immense volumes of data available and advances in high-performance data processing infrastructure.