Structure News: When Apple met Google

Where Our Cloud Prices Are Insane March 18th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk Dropbox going solo, Google's triumphant AlphaGo victory, and Apple's plans for its infrastructure needs. STRUCTURE NEWS DATA SCIENCE IS A RECRUITING TOOL FOR DIVERSE CANDIDATES AT AIRBNB One session that stood out for me personally at Structure Data was the discussion about how Airbnb's Elena Grewal (pictured, left) worked with the company's recruiters to apply data science principles to its hiring process in order to solve for diversity. They're not quite there yet (the company is now 30 percent women, as compared to 15 percent last year) but it shows the benefits of having all departments -- not just product -- be data driven. HORTONWORKS CEO ROB BEARDEN THINKS THE DATA EXPLOSION HAS ONLY BEGUN Rob Bearden probably has a different opinion of Wall Street these days than he did a few years ago, but he didn't appear very worried at Structure Data 2016 about investors eventually realizing how valuable big data can be. With projections that the amount of data will increase by 10x over the next ten years, and the complexity of that data increasing at a similar rate, he's got a point. INDUSTRY NEWS MINECRAFT TO RUN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERIMENTS One of the shrewdest things Microsoft did in the last few years was buy Minecraft, one of the most ubiquitous video games among the younger set. The company plans to take advantage of that popularity by running a few tests (opt-in only) to help train AI algorithims on dealing with complex, open-ended worlds, according to BBC News. THE EPIC STORY OF DROPBOX'S EXODUS FROM THE AMAZON CLOUD EMPIRE One topic I like to ask fast-growing cloud-native web startups about at Structure is how they think about "the datacenter tipping point;" the point at which -- if you're fortunate enough -- you've grown so big that it starts to make sense to bring more things in-house. Wired takes us through the two-and-a-half year process Dropbox went through in moving its storage system, arguably the very core of its service, from Amazon Web Services to its own hardware. GET RICH OR HACK TRYIN' In what might have been the first hip-hop themed blog post title ever written by Google, the company announced it was doubling its bug bounty for those trying to hijack a Chromebook. It also introduced a new bounty on bugs involving its Safe Browsing feature on Chrome, showing how important web companies continue to feel that keeping the outside hacker network friendly and active is a good security measure. QUIETLY, SYMBOLICALLY, US CONTROL OF THE INTERNET WAS JUST ENDED We won't be able to judge the effects of this for a long time, but this is a big deal: ICANN members, after a two-year process, have agreed to transfer control over internet addresses and domain names from a non-profit kinda-sorta controlled by the U.S. government to a consortium of leaders from multiple countries. The Guardian has a nice analysis piece from former ICANN member Maria Farrell on how the world got to this point. WHAT WE LEARNED IN SEOUL WITH ALPHAGO Google's AlphaGo contest was an amazing thing to follow for anyone interested in the future of artificial intelligence, and Dennis Hassabis, CEO of the company's DeepMind unit, shared a few reflections in a blog post this week. "But as they say about Go in Korean: 'Don’t be arrogant when you win or you’ll lose your luck,'" he wrote. "This is just one small, albeit significant, step along the way to making machines smart." US GOVERNMENT PUSHED TECH FIRMS TO HAND OVER SOURCE CODE The tech industry's side-eye looks at the intentions of government law enforcement officials this year might be partly informed by what they've had to put up with already. ZDNet reported Thursday that the U.S. government has pushed companies to share source code with the government (it's not clear if any actually had) through the secret FISA court, which is an amazing request of a modern software company that no sane executive would ever willingly sign off on. BIG PICTURE We all like to think of the tech industry as the clash of rival titans, and for a long time Apple and Google have given us that satisfaction. Ever since the birth of Android, the CA-85 rivalry has been one of the hottest in tech, with plenty of overheated rhetoric and genuine dislike on both sides. But neither company is stupid. Under Diane Greene, Google is courting big customers for its Google Cloud Platform, likely at fire-sale prices. Apple is smart with its money and creating a little competition among big suppliers is smart. So it makes sense that Apple has struck a $400 million to $600 million cloud-computing deal with Google, as first reported by CRN Wednesday. As Recode later reported, Apple appears to see this deal with Google as just a stopgap while it builds out its own datacenters to run iCloud, iTunes, and all of Apple's other internet services. Project McQueen (as in Steve, look it up, Millennials) is a fascinating undertaking, as Apple tries to build the world-class computing system its rivals have enjoyed for decades while operating under its customary cloak of secrecy. Still, it's a coup for Google, as it has won the business of one of the world's most demanding buyers of the technology and services needed to run its operation and dented Amazon Web Services, its much larger competitor. I definitely agree with Om Malik that most likely, Google gave away this business, and that in general, the tech world needs more transparency in cloud pricing and financial performance to help startups and bigger companies that don't have Apple's leverage make supplier decisions. We haven't really had a public cloud rivalry yet: Amazon has run so far ahead of the pack for so long it's been  kind of silly to call Microsoft's Azure and GCP rivals. But Azure is one of the biggest parts of Microsoft's future strategy, and Google is clearly willing to fight for business. Google's competitive focus might be shifting north. One of my biggest questions about this revolutionary cloud era is whether the new guard in enterprise software will eventually mimic the strategies and tactics of the old guard of enterprise computing as their businesses grow. Over the next five years, we're going to figure that out. 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Structure News: Recapping Structure Data 2016

Where The Data Was Actionable March 11th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll recap Structure Data 2016, a great week of interviews, talks, and conversations about the future of data-driven tools and strategies inside companies and organizations. STRUCTURE NEWS BUILDING DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AT STARTUP SPEED? STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF THOSE BEFORE YOU June Andrews of Pinterest and Josh Wills of Slack (pictured) have two of the most interesting data science jobs in technology, building data science practices at fast-growing companies known for their focus on design. Thankfully, the prevalence of open-source software makes it easy to get off the ground, but as they explained, things can get quite tricky quite quickly. WHY DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS NEED TO GET SMARTER AND MORE ACCESSIBLE After focusing on gathering "big data" for so many years, data science needs to evolve to reach more people with smaller datasets, according to Chris Neumann, formerly of DataHero, and Dan Wagner of Civis Analytics. That means helping people and businesses develop the right questions to ask and making user-friendly tools. HOW THE ORLANDO MAGIC ARE USING DATA TO KEEP FANS HAPPY Using data to shorten beer lines might be the smartest use of data science yet. Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins explained how working with John Paul of Venuenext has allowed the Magic to offer season-ticket holders perks while refining the club's ticket-pricing algorithms. THE ASCENT OF THE SENTIENT ROBOTS MAY HAVE BEEN OVERSOLD While the robots might be coming for our jobs, they're probably not going to destroy us. Yet. Artificial intelligence expert Andrew Ng of Baidu predicted that we'll see the commercialization of self-driving vehicles in three years and mainstream use in five, but "worrying about killer robots today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars," he said. INDUSTRY NEWS GOOGLE JOINS THE OPEN COMPUTE PROJECT Back in the day, Google was notorious for treating the designs for its world-class datacenters and networks like state secrets. A lot has changed since then, and Google's embrace of the Open Compute Project this week (a movement launched by rival Facebook) with its power-efficient rack designs is a notable and laudable shift, as reported by Techcrunch. HOW WE BUILD CODE AT NETFLIX Netflix also dropped some knowledge this week, explaining how it writes code on local machines and deploys that code to its servers running in Amazon Web Services' cloud. The company has managed to reduce the time it takes to deploy some of its code to 16 minutes, from local machines to a multiregional deployment.   BIG PICTURE Over the years we've put together Structure Data, I'm not sure we've assembled a better lineup of speakers. We had the CEOs of all the major big data companies, world-renowned experts in artificial intelligence from the most powerful internet companies on the planet, and representatives from the next generation of data-driven startups like Uber and Airbnb. But when I look back at the week, I'm also struck by how many conversations that I hope we continued, or even started, about the impact of big data on society. We explored how the health care system is changing in response to the data era, albeit at a frustrating pace. Kalev Leetaru of GDELT delivered a legendary Structure Data talk on the power of data to understand our world (and passionately explained his work and love of data science all week on the sidelines). And Sugreev Chawla of Thorn showed how data is helping law enforcement track down some of the most horrifying elements of our world, like child traffickers and pornographers. Harnessing data has made our websites better, our computers more efficient, and our advertising more lucrative. And while all of those outcomes are great, it's important that we recognize and assist those who are using the latest in data science tools in important ways without regard for the profit motive. Thanks to our speakers, sponsors, attendees, and everyone else who made Structure Data 2016 such a great event. We'll see you all again soon.       DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Structure 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2016 Structure All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend. Update your profile.

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Structure News: The security of big data

Where We're Only Five Days Away March 4th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk about the best data conference on the planet and the growing symbiosis between security researchers and data scientists. STRUCTURE NEWS MEET MICHAEL FRANKLIN AND UC BERKLEY'S AMPLAB, WHERE BASIC TECH RESEARCH STILL REIGNS I was finally able to catch up last Friday with Michael Franklin (pictured) of UC Berkeley's AMPLab, which has produced some essential research and even products (Apache Spark) that have changed the world of big data. Franklin will speak next week at Structure Data about how universities and companies can work together to make tech breakthroughs in research. JUST ANNOUNCED: ELENA GREWAL OF AIRBNB TO TALK DATA-DRIVEN DIVERSITY AT STRUCTURE DATA We got this one just in under the wire. We are thrilled to welcome Elena Grewal of Airbnb to Structure Data, where she'll be interviewed by Techcrunch's Megan Rose Dickey about an internal study and data science experiment Airbnb conducted to successfully improve its hiring of women. HOW MICROSOFT AND PETER LEE ARE DISCOVERING THE FUTURE OF DEEP LEARNING Microsoft's Peter Lee is looking into salesforce automation in truest sense of that jargony term. Lee, who will be interviewed by Bloomberg's Jack Clark Thursday at Structure Data, talked to me about a skunkworks-like project within Microsoft Research that applies deep-learning techniques to sales databases to try and predict the best ways to corral stray customers back into the fold. WHERE ARE ALL THE CYBER DATA SCIENTISTS? The reluctance to share data within the security community (more on that in a bit) is really start to frustrate some data scientists. In a guest post from In-Q-Tel, Steve Bowsher (who I'll be interviewing at Structure Data), Sri Chandrasekar, and Charlie Greenbacker lay out a few remedies for either getting more security data out there or improving the reliability of analysis on the amount of data available.   INDUSTRY NEWS THE PROMISE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UNFOLDS IN SMALL STEPS Steve Lohr of the New York Times (who will be moderating two sessions at Structure Data) wrote a nice piece over the weekend about the difficulties that companies have encountered in trying to commercialize artificial intelligence. There's no doubt AI is going to change the world of computing in huge ways, but as veterans of the AI community know, this change is not going to happen overnight. THE MAN WHO'S BUILDING A COMPUTER MADE OF BRAINS It was a good week for deep pieces on AI from our friends in the tech media. Motherboard has a look at a very interesting startup called Koniku, which is trying to raise money and build a company that will build chips that use neurons grown in labs. U.S. ANNOUNCES "HACK THE PENTAGON" BOUNTY PROGRAM There's a joke in here somewhere about our foreign aid budget, but the U.S. Department of Defense is joining the bug bounty party. It announced this week that it will let "vetted hackers" probe Pentagon networks and other infrastructure for bugs, with the possibility of cash prizes for some, according to NPR. DOCKER ACQUIRES CONDUCTANT AS IT LOOKS TO HELP BUSINESSES RUN LARGE-SCALE SYSTEMS Docker showed signs this week that it's thinking bigger with the acquisition of Conductant. The people behind Conductant were also instrumental in the development of the Apache Aurora project, and Techcrunch reported that Docker plans to build "a commercial distribution for Aurora" that could potentially compete with Mesosphere.   BIG PICTURE I spent a lot of time this week at the RSA Conference, along with 40,000 others, trying to assess the current state of the security industry and get a feel for where it's headed next. It was a pretty massive event, spread across all three halls of the Moscone Center in San Francisco (thankfully the folks behind the conference resisted the urge to go full Ellison/Benioff and shut down all of Howard Street). The idea is to keep gathering ideas and meeting people in preparation for our first Structure Security conference this September. But over the course of several conversations this week, I kept hearing more and more security professionals talking about big data and machine learning as core parts of the next generation of security tools. One of the most interesting sessions I watched was a panel of cryptographers (including Martin Hellman and Whitford Diffie, the inventors of public-key cryptography who won the coveted Turing award this week), and you know that field is going to be transformed by advances in artificial intelligence: Diffie actually worked for the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1970s when co-developing that award-winning technology. I spoke at length on the show floor with Tomer Weingarten, CEO of SentinelOne, about the machine-learning techniques his startup is applying to move beyond traditional antivirus software capabilities. Next week at Structure Data you'll hear from some of the finest people in data science, explaining how they are pushing the envelope of existing knowledge in AI, deep learning, and data analysis. Based on what I saw this week at RSA, the security folks are definitely on board with this future. And if something as vital and lucrative as cyber security is cozying up to machine learning, you know this field is poised to explode.       DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Structure 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2016 Structure All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend. Update your profile.

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Structure News: The golden age of artificial intelligence

Where Learning Is Deep, Man February 26th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk about mapping the sentiment of the world based on data, DDoSing for dollars (not exactly, but the alliteration worked), and three huge breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research. STRUCTURE NEWS HOW GDELT IS CATALOGING AND ANALYZING THE ENTIRE PLANET One of the talks I'm most looking forward to at Structure Data is the one given by Kalev Leetaru, who is putting some amazing technology and data science behind a project to map the globe using a wide ranging of factors, from social media to news reports, in order to visualize the emotional status of a given country and help predict what might come next. He wrote a guest post for us this week about the effort required to keep this project up and running. THE STRUCTURE SHOW: WHY AI IS THE FUTURE OF SOFTWARE On this week’s show, Derrick Harris and I discuss IBM’s big event in the desert (more on that in a bit), Apple’s showdown with the FBI, and an excellent essay from Andreessen Horowitz’s Chris Dixon on the future of computing. Spoilers: we’re mixed on the value of developer/partner events, we’re sympathetic to Apple, and we’re big believers in the power of AI. Structure Data 2016 is right around the corner! Don't miss you chance to see some of the sharpest minds in big data and artificial intelligence, including Jeff Dean of Google, Peter Lee of Microsoft, and many more on March 9th and 10th in San Francisco. Register here.   INDUSTRY NEWS IBM INKS VMWARE, GITHUB, BITLY DEALS, EXPANDS APPLE SWIFT USE AS IT DOUBLES DOWN ON THE CLOUD IBM invited several thousand of its closest friends to Las Vegas this week for a big conference during which it trotted out a bunch of news before Elton John took the stage. Techcrunch takes a look at some prominent announcements, including a deal in which VMware will run inside IBM's public cloud datacenters, and a rare public appearance by Apple engineers to discuss how IBM will expand its use of Apple's budding Swift programming language in enterprise app development services. THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE WHEN SECURING DATA IN THE CLOUD In a way, the public cloud lets CIOs breathe a little easier, in that basic security becomes the service provider's problem, but of course that's not entirely true. Silicon Angle uses the ongoing debate over the FBI's quest to get inside Apple's iPhone to look at how cloud security works in practice. ORACLE BUYS CLOUD SOFTWARE STARTUP RAVELLO SYSTEMS FOR $500 MILLION, SOURCE SAYS Oracle picked up another piece of the puzzle this week as it attempts to shift its business model toward the public cloud. Venturebeat reports that Ravello Systems will allow Oracle to improve its cloud infrastructure services, for the price of half a unicorn. BUG BOUNTY HACKERS SCORE BIG DOLLARS AND THE BOOM'S ONLY JUST BEGUN Software companies have been offering "bounties" to security experts for several years in hopes of providing a different kind of financial incentive to find weaknesses in software, and this is turning into a big business. The Register has a nice feature on the growth of bug bounties and the big money that can be made probing for weaknesses in software. SPOTIFY NEXT MEDIA COMPANY TO MOVE TO THE CLOUD Chalk up another win for Diane Greene: Google has convinced music streaming service Spotify to run the back-end infrastructure supporting its service on Google Compute Engine. Variety notes that Spotify had long been a roll-our-own infrastructure company, but hardly any company these days hasn't at least investigated the notion of running on the public cloud, and you have to figure Google made them a sweet deal to get a well-known customer win. NETWORKING TECH INVENTOR CASADO LEAVES VMWARE FOR ANDREESSEN  We've been following the career of Martin Casado, the father of software-defined networking, for several years now, and it looks like it's time for him to take on a more expansive role. Bloomberg reports that Casado is leaving VMware -- which acquired his pioneering startup Nicira -- to become a venture capitalist, looking at enterprise and infrastructure investments. BIG PICTURE Usually in this section, I try to summarize the most noteworthy or important event in the Structure universe that surfaced during the past week. But this week, there were three very interesting developments in artificial intelligence research that so clearly supported the notion that we're turning a corner in this area, I couldn't help but include all three as we gear up for two days of AI discussion at Structure Data. On Thursday, Google announced that it had developed a deep-learning machine that could actually tell you the location depicted in an image on the internet based on data. We're talking about famous locations, like the Eiffel Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge, but it's still another amazing example of the power of neural networks. Not to be outdone, Facebook revealed that it was able to map 4 percent of the world's surface in a week using satellite photos. That might not sound like a lot, and we've had pretty good maps for a while now, but Facebook thinks it could map the entire earth in six days using these algorithms and its computing power, which could pay amazing dividends in an era of rising seas. (The picture above is a "DigitalGlobe satellite image of Naivasha, Kenya (left) and results of our analysis of the same area (right)," Facebook said.) And finally, Google's DeepMind unit said it will tackle one of the biggest burdens of an aging population -- health care -- with the goal of improving the speed and accuracy of medical test results. As we continue to quantify ourselves with health data, helping medical organizations make sense of that data will not only make it possible to treat larger numbers of patients but could lead to additional breakthroughs in treatment. Let's not succumb to horse-race treatment of these announcements: as I wrote earlier this year about the AI conference organized by Facebook's Yann LeCun earlier this year, this industry is still small enough and collaborative enough that we should celebrate all of these advances. Still, competition is a very healthy thing in technology, and Google and Facebook are showing us what can be possible when massive computer networks and some of the finest minds of our time set out to achieve results unfathomable even five years ago.        DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Structure 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2016 Structure All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend. Update your profile.