Indeed, the framework, developed by Jonathan de Bruin and a team of researchers, will be able to automatically recognize the most relevant studies about a topic by training the machine learning model with an interactive approach called active learning. Hence, this system is trained to analyze various documents available and find the relevant ones.

In times of a pandemic, new guidelines and searches were required so the researchers worked with the Allen Institute for AI to develop the framework. ASReview has then been used by many researchers to review past studies about the virus and find more efficient medical guidelines. It is predicted that in the future, it will conduct several systematic reviews and meta-analyses to speed up research in various fields.

The researchers do believe that interactive machine learning approaches have to remain completely transparent and explainable.

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SQL prompt tool

Redgate has released an updated version of its SQL prompt tool, meaning errors in code can be auto-fixed and developers’ speed of coding has the potential to increase. “Not sure what voodoo your developers put behind this but it saves me a lot of scrolling and clicking.”, says Piotr Lipski, Business Intelligence Consultant at Bearing Point on talking about the new tool.

Analysing data becomes easier

A free multi-platform interface to visualise, manipulate, and analyse data within a specific environment has been developed by Redis. “Additionally, as modern microservices architectures adopt technologies such as Kubernetes, automated cluster recovery provides precise, repeatable steps to ensure data resiliency and minimum downtime for our customers’ applications, even in severe conditions like cluster quorum loss,” said Alvin Richards, Chief Product Officer at Redis Labs.

Doubling capabilities

Software firm Dynatrace has doubled the capability of its software intelligence platform to meet growing multi-cloud environments. “As we expand our digital footprint, our enterprise cloud environment is continually growing more dynamic and complex,” said Reinhard Weber, Senior Product Manager, SAP CX.

Putting developers first

Snyke, a company that claims to put developers first, has created a scalable approach of fixing capabilities found in Kubernetes and container images. “As the adoption of containers continue to skyrocket, our research shows that containers often introduce hundreds of vulnerabilities from open source dependencies and there is no native safeguard in place to find and fix them,” said Guy Podjarny, Co-founder and President, Snyk.

Expanding AI to developers

A firm that specialises in AI, Testim, has expanded its codeless AI-based software to developers. Oren Rubin, founder and CEO of Testim. “The Dev Kit builds on our commitment to make testing more collaborative and open as possible so that teams can deliver quality software faster. Customer feedback has already been exceptional and we’re eager to deliver this Dev Kit to market.”

With all this in mind, it will be exciting to see how else tech will be incorporated into the everyday lives of people next week.

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Moogsoft, a pioneer and leading provider of artificial intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), announced today at its annual user conference the launch of Moogsoft Express, a new AIOps Cloud offering with native observability capabilities that helps DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams deliver continuous service assurance throughout the continuous integration/continuous delivery cycle.

Similar to its flagship offering, Moogsoft Enterprise, Moogsoft Express is built on Moogsoft’s industry-leading AIOps platform. This SaaS solution features intelligent noise-reduction, alert correlation, and native observability capabilities, including metrics collection and anomaly detection. It also offers out-of-the-box workflows and integrations with notification and alerting tools, helping DevOps teams resolve incidents quicker and meet service level agreements (SLAs) with their customers.

Available now in beta, organizations can sign up at https://www.moogsoft.com/aiops-express.

An industry-led AIOps platform

“With the rise of DevOps and the continuous movement of applications to the cloud, SRE teams are struggling with siloed monitoring tools that don’t connect together well and don’t help them detect incidents that could impact the availability and reliability of their applications,” said Phil Tee, CEO of Moogsoft. “With Moogsoft Express, we give everyone access to our industry-leading AIOps platform so they can correlate events, metrics and logs from cloud environments and get visibility into all activity via one unified view. This will help SRE teams detect incidents faster, meet SLAs, and thrive in their DevOps journey.”

“As DevOps teams embrace new technologies, they often suffer from a lack of visibility into operations that makes it difficult to address performance problems when they occur,” said Nancy Gohring, senior analyst at 451 Research. “To solve this challenge they need easy-to-use tools that collect data across their complex, dynamic application environments and quickly extract intelligence to enable the repair of performance issues before they impact end users.”

Moogsoft Express is ideal for DevOps teams and SREs dealing with the operational complexity that results from innovations such as serverless computing, containers, IoT and microservices. Agile, continuous delivery of new software and services requires an AIOps solution that unifies incident, fault, metric and log data, and offers full correlation and visibility across all of them. It is also ideal for customers that will be building out their monitoring tools and infrastructure, actively seeking a unified monitoring solution across many systems and applications. Moogsoft Express easily integrates out-of-the-box with many popular DevOps tools, such as AWS Cloudwatch, Slack and PagerDuty.

Moogsoft Express has been designed to address common challenges such as alert overload, cloud application monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and DevOps toolchain monitoring.

Included features

Moogsoft Express has an extensive feature set, including:

• A deployable Collector which performs real-time analysis at the source of metric data, and simple APIs to ingest metrics, events, and alerts from monitoring tools such as AWS Cloudwatch, and from systems such as Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters
• Automated application of statistical calculations and noise-reduction algorithms applied to the metric data, making Moogsoft Express a true observability solution that can detect anomalies using learned adaptive thresholds
• Automated analysis of anomalies and events to filter out irrelevant events and data, resulting in contextually relevant alerts
• Robust correlation algorithms enabling like-for-like correlation across all alert types,  resulting in meaningful and actionable incidents
• An enriched incident view, with contextual information and visual charts, providing comprehensive insights into all infrastructure and applications
• Powerful AIOps capabilities grounded in the more than 50 patented AI and machine learning algorithms that Moogsoft has developed since its founding

• Flexible licensing, so your deployment can easily grow with your business as its needs expand to require advanced collaboration, customization, and other enterprise capabilities

Moogsoft showcased Moogsoft Express and the launch of its open beta program at the annual Moogsoft User Conference, which was held in Chicago on October 29-30. For more details, visit: https://muc.moogsoft.com.

Availability of Moogsoft Express Beta: SRE teams and DevOps organizations can sign up for the free beta at https://www.moogsoft.com/aiops-express. Beta customers will receive full service and support during the beta period.

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Boost was immediately released during the World Cup by design partner and customer Onefootball, the world’s largest and fastest-growing platform for football fans with more than 35 million global season active users.

It includes a software optimisation service running on top of Google Cloud, which includes multi-dimensional message speed reporting and direct access to the Urban Airship engineering team for performance consulting.

“Onefootball’s audience has increased dramatically over the last two World Cups and 85% of users opt-in to receive notifications, so a scalable real-time messaging platform is a core requirement,” said Lucas von Cranach, CEO and founder, Onefootball, in a press release.

“We’ve had a very good collaboration with Urban Airship for the past two years, and now Boost has improved the reliability and speed of our notifications. Speed is critical as there’s no customer more passionate than a sports fan. Messages arriving seconds sooner make all the difference to their experience and the value of our platform.”

Urban Airship also serves hundreds of the largest media companies, such as NBCUniversal, News UK, Times Internet and USA TODAY.

Written by Leah Alger

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Microsoft executives have said they aim to meet its US$20billion goal in 2018 hitting an annualised revenue run rate of US$18.9billion in its fourth quarter.

KeyBanc analyst, Brent Bracelin, said to MarketWatch: “We have been impressed by solid execution and strong customer adoption of Microsoft’s cloud applications and platforms.

“Reaching US$20billion would imply the commercial cloud mix could cross over 20% of revenue for the first time in the first quarter of fiscal 2018, up from 5% in early 2015, similar to the multiyear transition at Adobe Systems we still view Microsoft in the early innings of cloud migration.”

Written by Leah Alger

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MOD transforming its ICT organisation

The DaaP initiative is the bedrock of CDIO’s vision to deliver information services to Defence that are a force multiplier – whether in the operational or business space.
The DaaP concept will provide a shared set of common components and infrastructure across the MOD to support all mission and line of business services and applications, provided as a ‘common good’ by ISS. No longer will MOD business units procure their own systems or services.

This is a shift away from the current model characterised by multiple stovepiped systems with duplicative components in multiple providers (increasing cost due to fragmented architecture and no core common infrastructure) to a model whereby a unified, common architecture supports all end user services. ISS will act as the design authority for all new or bespoke requests from end users across Defence (to ensure coherence) whilst all other requirements can be ordered from a single catalogue of services, which ISS will provide. In essence, ISS will become an ‘ICT as a Service’ organisation.

In-sourcing capabilities

“The way we’ve outsourced in the past means we have abrogated design. I want to in-source a lot of capabilities to make us masters of our own destiny and stand up our own design authority, with an architectural direction of travel,” Stone said.

The goal is for the MOD to take ownership and develop DevOps, test, integration and management functions.

Limit commercial interaction to the ISS organisation

The DaaP initiative has a clear impact on industry. The first and most obvious is that defence users will – by and large – engage only with the ISS organisation when requesting or purchasing ICT services. There will be no vendor interaction at the ‘point of sale’. This will be a major change and require vendors to have strong relationships within ISS. Although the intent is to limit commercial interaction to the ISS organisation, it is unclear whether industry will still be able to interact with business unit end customers (meaning the Army, Air Force, Navy etc) to help them understand and shape their information requirements that they then place on ISS.

Secondly, a better-defined (and understood) infrastructure and architecture will give industry greater clarity about how their solutions might fit into the overall system. The reduced complexity should allow industry to be more competitive and allow SMEs to provide solutions into a system that is less Byzantine. More will need to be done, not least improving visibility of future requirements so companies can assess and invest accordingly, but DaaP should be welcomed by industry as a positive move

The transformation is not intended as a centralisation effort of all ICT in defence, a move which Stone argued would stifle innovation and limit their ability to develop services locally.

The vision is for MOD business units to be given their own ‘innovation platform’ (comprising small amounts of compute, hosting and storage) to develop their own – relatively small-scale – information capabilities by leveraging the talent they have in their immediate teams. To do so, however, the innovations must interact and interoperate with the DaaP core.

Other governmental departments taking note

Current vendors involved in providing ICT to central government will have recognised immediately the similarities between DaaP and the aspirations behind the Government as a Platform (GaaP) initiative. In many regards, the MOD is ahead of the curve and CDIO’s from other departments – as well as the Cabinet Office – will be watching ISS closely.

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