Category: AI

  • myEinstein

    myEinstein

    This year’s Salesforce Dreamforce conference started rather big with the announcement of my Einstein. The news spread quickly through the massive crowd of 170,000 plus attendees at Dreamforce 2017 and was met with equal levels of enthusiasm and scepticism. The Einstein machine learning platform has been updated with new predictive insights and chatbot capabilities. In…

  • Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found

    Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found

    Human Error -> Root cause AWS S3 outage is found Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert | Helping Businesses…

  • Amazon disrupts again

    Amazon disrupts again

    Amazon is now testing a store in Seattle where customers can walk in, take food off of the shelves and leave, without the hassle of having to wait in line. This new service is called AmazonGo, and it uses Amazon’s “Just Walk Out Technology”. Is this the result from Lean, checkout waste removal? Or Design…

  • Blockchain could solve Data Integrity problems

    Blockchain could solve Data Integrity problems

    As the world relies more heavily on data as the basis for critical decision-making, it is vital that this data can be trusted. And that trust is the key issue here. People (Data Scientists, Chief Innovation Officers) are looking for ways to automate using data. Automation translates to efficiency which translates to value. This automation…

  • All this availability of data connection makes me feel nostalgic

    When I first started my journey online I was still on dial-up. Once every while, I listened to the whirly noises the little grey box on my computer made as it performed a ‘handshake’ with another modem somewhere. Like magic, I was online and I used those few expensive minutes to connect to a BBS,…

  • “Who’s on First?”

    “Who’s on First?”

    The movie Purple Rain mixes up with Abbot and Costello Morris: Okay. What’s the password? Jerome: You got it. Morris: Got what? Jerome: The password. Morris: The password is what? Jerome: Exactly. Morris: The password is exactly? Jerome: No, it’s okay. Morris: The password is okay? Jerome: Far as I’m concerned. Morris: Damn it, say…

  • Whos First Martijn Veldkamp

    Whos First Martijn Veldkamp

    The movie Purple Rain mixes up with Abbot and Costello Morris: Okay. What’s the password? Jerome: You got it. Morris: Got what? Jerome: The password. Morris: The password is what? Jerome: Exactly. Morris: The password is exactly? Jerome: No, it’s okay. Morris: The password is okay? Jerome: Far as I’m concerned. Morris: Damn it, say…

  • “Who’s on First?”

    “Who’s on First?”

    "Who’s on First?" The movie Purple Rain mixes up with Abbot and Costello Morris: Okay. What’s the password? Jerome: You got it. Morris: Got what? Jerome: The…

  • New platform lets people make money leaking confidential files

    New platform lets people make money leaking confidential files

    A team of cryptographers and developers want to create a website where anyone can sell data sets to the highest bidder. "You’ll hate it," is the slogan of the…

  • Cloud reliabilty

    Cloud reliabilty

    Reliability is often attributed as one of the reasons some organizations are wary of the cloud. Last week, Amazon, Rackspace and IBM had to “reboot” their clouds to deal with maintenance issues with the Xen hypervisor. Details were scarce but it was pretty quickly established that an unspecified vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor was the…