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Reinforcement in machine learning is when the algorithm teaches itself which outcomes are the most optimal once it finds the right outcomes.

Colocation giant Digital Realty deepened its ties to Nvidia with a service that allows enterprises to deploy Nvidia-powered artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workloads on Digital Realty's data center platform. Nvidia launched its DGX-Ready Data Center program last year with 19 data center partners including Digital Realty. The AI partner program gives customers access to Nvidia's AI infrastructure inside the colocation providers' facilities. Meanwhile, Digital Realty in November announced PlatformDigital. At launch the data center platform offered customers four new services that they could deploy on top of PlatformDigital.

Nvidia today unveiled its plans to acquire Cumulus Networks for an undisclosed sum in a bid to bolster the chipmaker's presence in the networking space. Combined with Mellanox, which Nvidia bought last year for more than $6.9 billion, the chipmaker says Cumulus' open networking platform will help to accelerate the development and adoption of the software-defined data center. "The Cumulus acquisition, along with Mellanox, strengthens our position to reshape the modern data center to handle the exponential growth in AI [artificial intelligence] and [high-performance computing]," an Nvidia spokesperson wrote in an email to SDxCentral. "Cumulus' networking software expertise augments Nvidia's strategy of innovating across the entire stack, from silicon to systems to software, to deliver unique value to customers." Nvidia claims that with Cumulus it will be able to innovate across the entire networking stack from chips and systems to software.

PowerStore is constructed with end-to-end NVMe and a built-in, real-time machine learning (ML) engine with dual-ported Intel Optane SSDs for Storage Class Memory (SCM) as persistent storage, and up to 32Gb FC or 25Gb Ethernet support. It also boasts additional memory for more processing power with the addition of Intel's Xeon Scalable Processor – formerly known as Cascade Lake – which hit the shelves in February. It's worth noting that competitor Pure Storage also features Intel's Xeon Scalable Processor in its third-generation all-NVMe FlashArray//X controllers announced earlier this year.

Swarm-based network attacks are still likely a couple years away, according to Derek Manky, chief of security insights and global threat alliances at FortiGuard Labs. But, especially as they start deploying 5G networks, enterprises should prepare for these types of attacks now. FortiGuard Labs is the global threat intelligence and research team at Fortinet. In a conversation at the recent RSA Conference, Manky explained the strategy behind swarm attacks -- one of the scarier emerging threats that he's been following for a few years. "And I do think this is on the horizon," he said.

Cisco today introduced machine learning capabilities and tighter integration between service providers and vendors in its IoT management platform. Cisco IoT Control Center now includes machine learning models to identify anomalies and resolve problems before they impact IoT services. The feature also enables service providers to alert customers of errant or otherwise unused devices, and therefore implement greater control over connected devices. Cisco's IoT platform is largely the result of its $1.4 billion acquisition of Jasper in 2016, but the effort has grown considerably during the last four years. Cisco has partnerships and IoT management reselling agreements with 52 network operators and claims to be the No. 1 IoT management platform provider for connected cars.

Oracle supercharged its efforts to take on cloud giants Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and today launched a data science platform that runs as a native service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The announcement marks the company's second cloud push of the new year. Last week Oracle announced its Generation 2 Cloud was available in five new regions including Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Melbourne, Australia; Osaka, Japan; Montreal; and Amsterdam. The new Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure Data Science Platform uses elements of DataScience.com, The vendor claims the new offering can bring data scientists together and aid analysis with capabilities like shared projects, model catalogs, team security policies, reproducibility, and auditability.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the science of making machines capable of reasoning and learning new concepts. It is related to and takes advantage of machine learning, but shouldn't be confused as the same thing. Narrow AIs that exist today can accomplish only very specific tasks and are limited in scope. General AI, which is what people tend to think of as AI, does not exist yet and has raised many concerns in the scientific community and the public.