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The Linux Foundation’s Artificial Intelligence Community Announces New Acumos Release Focused on Creation of AI/ML Models

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June 25, 2019

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The LF AI Foundation, the organization building an open AI community to drive open source innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), today announced the new release of Acumos code named Boreas. This latest release of the open source framework and marketplace will enable the creation, training and license verification of AI, ML and DL models and apps, among other benefits to the community of developers and data scientists.

“The technology industry is on the precipice of a major technological shift with AI, which is exactly the point in any technology evolution where open source software and community can accelerate development,” said Ibrahim Haddad, executive director of LF AI Foundation. “An open source framework that is iterated upon early and often is key in transforming the development work for data scientists and developers, and Acumos is that foundation for innovation.”

Acumos AI is a platform and open source framework that makes it easy to build, share, and deploy AI apps. Acumos standardizes the infrastructure stack and components required to run an out-of-the-box general AI environment. This frees data scientists and model trainers to focus on their core competencies and accelerates innovation.

Acumos is part of the LF AI Foundation, an umbrella organization within The Linux Foundation that supports and sustains open source innovation in AI, ML, and DL while striving to make these critical new technologies available to developers and data scientists everywhere.

The latest Acumos AI release includes:

Support for onboarding of ONNX, PFA and Dockerized models.
Enhanced Acumos platform peering through a controlled process of partner catalog publication and subscription.
- Global catalog search capability
- Federation of Catalogs
Support for AI/ML model suppliers to provide a commercial software license with their models in the Acumos marketplace.
- Security scans of license metadata for models (Disabled with Security Verification turned off)
- Support verification of licenses and Right-To-Use for commercial models**
- Logging to enable model activity tracking and reporting
Support for ML Workbench to allow the creation and training of AI/ML models in Acumos platform.
- Support for Notebooks development environment (Jupyter)
- Support for Pipeline (NiFi) tools are integrated with Acumos (NiFi Pipeline tools are available as a Beta Feature only under Kubernetes)
Enhanced user experience in portal.
- Publishing, unpublishing, deploying , onboarding, model building, and chaining, etc.
Enhanced logging standards.
- Log formats aligned with ONAP
- Support for Log management tools
Enhanced support for deploying Acumos platform under Kubernetes.

Global Adoption of Acumos
Integration, adoption and deployment of Acumos around the world is well underway and demonstrates momentum for a common, open framework to accelerate innovation in the AI, ML and DL app space. Two key examples are Orange and Tech Mahindra. Orange is using Acumos for an AI Marketplace and is integrating the upcoming Acumos Clio release with ONAP in order to test it on ONAP OpenLab and the 5G research platform Plug’in. Orange’s contribution to the Acumos includes the Onboarding enhancements seen in Acumos Boreas. Tech Mahindra is integrating Acumos into a number of its initiatives. TechMahindra GAiA is the first enterprise-grade open source AI platform, hosting a marketplace of AI models for a wide group of industry verticals. These are used as the basis for building, sharing and rapidly deploying AI-driven services and applications to solve business critical problems.

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“Acumos Boreas represents a significant next step in open source AI and machine learning,” said Dr. Ofer Hermoni, Director of Product Strategy at Amdocs and Chair of the LF AI Technical Advisory Counsel. “With the ability to create and train models, we’re well on our way to providing all the essential tools for rapid innovation for data scientists and developers building AI and machine learning apps.”

AT&T
“The second release of Acumos exemplifies the progress we’ve made as a community, and AT&T is proud to be a founding member of the project,” said Mazin Gilbert, vice president of Advanced Technology & Systems, AT&T Labs. Together, we’re lowering the barrier to entry for artificial intelligence by driving a collaborative open source community for developers, students and scientists. We’re honored to be a part of this community and committed to continued use of Acumos inside AT&T.”

Ericsson
“Open Source based AI platform capabilities and ecosystem are an important part of Ericsson’s 5G platform strategy to address the needs of our customers globally.” said Anita Frisell, VP Head of Technology Development and Execution and LF AI Board Member. “Key part of these capabilities is to enable creation and commercialization of AI based solutions. Boreas release of Acumos takes a big step towards achieving this objective. Ericsson is pleased to be a key contributor of the licensing and security features of the Boreas release in collaboration with AT&T and the community.”

Nokia
“Acumos with the Boreas Release offers a complete experience for ML modelers and model consumers beyond the marketplace. As a founding member of the LF AI, Nokia is excited about the possibilities of Acumos in powering ML model marketplaces around network automation and evolved 5G RAN architecture’s near real-time RAN Intelligent Controller. We are working on several use cases together with our customers to help accelerate the adoption of AI based applications,” said Jonne Soininen, Head of Open Source Initiatives at Nokia.

Orange
“A unified development platform for AI was really needed. The Boreas release of Acumos AI is a major step forward. Orange has increased its involvement in Acumos in both execution and on-boarding. We have tested extensively the publication and exporting of AI models for operations use cases like incident detection and tickets classification and see Acumos as an excellent solution for the Orange AI Marketplace,” said Nicolas Demassieux, Senior Vice President, Orange Labs Research.

TechMahindra
“We are proud to be a key contributor to the Acumos Boreas release, another milestone towards creating a collaborative ecosystem for AI along with AT&T and LF. At Tech Mahindra we are committed to leveraging technologies like AI, both on IT and networks side to help our customers RUN better, CHANGE faster and GROW greater. TechMahindra’s GAiA, powered by Acumos is another testimony of how we are accelerating innovation in the AI space,” said Dr. Satish Pai, senior VP and SBU head, Americas Communications, Media and Entertainment, Tech Mahindra.

ZTE
“ZTE is excited to have witnessed the growth of Acumos in the past year. The Boreas release marks a significant step forward to break the barrier between model developers and model users with its flexible platform for model onboarding, designing, sharing and deploying, which will help create an ecosystem of AI in various vertical industries, especially in 5G. ZTE will continue to support the project and integrate it with our own AI solutions to accelerate 5G innovation with AI,” said Bingtao Han, Chief System Architecture Expert, ZTE.

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Greater efforts urged on sci-tech cooperation

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April 26, 2024

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BEIJING, April 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China Daily:

Greater efforts are needed to strengthen international cooperation in science and technology, explore ways of jointly solving important global issues through technological innovation, and develop new quality productive forces, said officials, experts and company executives on Thursday in Beijing.
Addressing the opening ceremony of the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum, Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang said China is willing to work with the international community to practice the concept of open, fair, just and nondiscriminatory international sci-tech cooperation, and to jointly build a global sci-tech community.
The country will explore a new model regarding mutually beneficial global cooperation in sci-tech innovation, and will break down barriers restricting the flow of knowledge, technology, talent and other innovative factors, to jointly create an open innovation ecosystem.
Yin Li, secretary of the Communist Party of China Beijing Municipal Committee, said the capital will ramp up efforts to improve its innovation capacities, accelerate the building of world-leading science and technology parks, increase investment in basic research and make breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields.
Data from the Ministry of Science and Technology showed that China’s research and development investment exceeded 3.3 trillion yuan ($455.4 billion) in 2023, up 8.1 percent year-on-year, and the spending on fundamental research reached 221.2 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3 percent over the previous year.
China’s strength in scientific and technological innovation has taken a major leap in recent years. Marco Aleman, assistant director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, said China is a powerhouse of innovation that contributes to global growth and sustainable development.
According to WIPO, the country stands as a global innovation leader, ranking 12th in the Global Innovation Index 2023, and it owned 24 of the top 100 science and technology clusters globally by the end of last year, ranking first in the world for the first time.
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, president of the World Academy of Sciences, said ensuring a sustainable future through partnership and cooperation creates an opportunity for all participants to explore new pathways toward achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Chinese tech company Xiaomi Corp, said the company will continue to step up investment in R&D and strive for breakthroughs in core technologies.
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Web O.No: Metaverse and Web 3.0 stunted by internet chaos, warn 87% of business leaders

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April 26, 2024

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Forrit report uncovers the internet is at breaking point, thanks to open source vulnerabilities, siloed web management systems, and poor website governance.
LONDON, April 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A new study launched by Forrit, the next-generation, global content management system (CMS) provider, reveals that 89% of senior marketers and tech leaders are optimistic that Web 3.0 and the metaverse have the potential to revolutionise the way we interact with the web. However, the report, titled Web O.No: your business’ bleak online future and how to avoid it uncovered that 87% believe the current state of the internet will stunt these innovations – and none of the respondents have websites that are currently equipped for this transformative new internet era.

As we near the 31st anniversary of the World Wide Web’s entry into the public domain, UK business decision-makers unanimously agreed that “the Internet today is a mess,” citing security flaws, vulnerabilities with open source web management systems, ungoverned websites, and multiple layers of legacy CMS systems.
Despite the report focusing on heavily regulated industries, financial services, utilities, and the legal sector, over half of the respondents (57%) revealed they have website security flaws. They also admitted customers would lose trust if they were exposed. Security vulnerabilities were most prevalent among those who run their websites on open source solutions, rising to 79% in this group. Expert respondents underscored the specific risk of open source plug-ins. Created by multiple third-party developers, they leave websites open to malicious compromise.
Beyond cyber-attacks, the report highlights the heightened risk of outages, dysfunctional interfaces, and hazardous content hidden within neglected pages of reputable websites. The latter is a risk for those operating multiple website management (CMS) systems – a common practice among the participants. Shockingly 44% admitted they don’t have control of the website content as a direct result of this practice.
With the internet spiralling out of control, Forrit labels this chaotic online future Web O.No.
Peter Proud, CEO and Founder, Forrit, explains the role of composable CMS platforms in putting the brakes on this doomsday scenario, “Forget Web 3.0, we’re heading towards Web O.No – a grim reality of an internet unfit for purpose unless we act now. It’s time to stop layering on outdated, vulnerable web management systems, which exacerbate the problem. Embracing a next-generation composable web management platform would introduce a new era of security, flexibility, and scalability for the internet, empowering businesses to embrace the future.”
The respondents reinforced this sentiment, with 89% asserting that composable architecture would empower their organisation to future-proof their digital infrastructure. This includes granting them the flexibility to adopt AI into the website—a capability that is inhibited by their current web management system, according to 72% of respondents.
Gary Roberts, CRO, Forrit, underscores this significance: “Your website management platform (CMS) should be an enabler of digital innovation, not a barrier. Embracing composable web architecture removes the current barriers, providing a clear pathway to the future – whether that’s the metaverse, Web 3.0, or any other pioneering tech advancement as yet undiscovered.”
Click here to download Forrit’s report – Web O.No: your business’ bleak online future and how to avoid it.
About ForritUK-based, global content management system provider, Forrit, has been helping large businesses in highly-regulated industries keep their web estate secure, simple-to-scale and easy-to-manage, for the last 10 years.
Our mission? To allow IT and marketing to manage their digital estate in perfect harmony. Through Forrit’s intuitive UI, low code CMS and content management configuration platform (Service Delivery Hub), the CMO and CTO can take joint control of their web estate.
An Azure-native solution, through which businesses can leverage any and all Azure Cloud Services, including AI-powered translation and automated migration, Forrit CMS is future proof and can be scaled or de-scaled as needed.
Sound technical? Not at all. Forrit’s platform requires no prior Azure knowledge or technical expertise to get everything needed from it. The plus to this, the strain is taken off the IT team, and the marketing team can create unrivalled digital experiences and manage content with ease.
With enterprise-grade security to top it off, Forrit’s cloud-native CMS helps businesses simplify their workflows, streamline their marketing efforts and scale at speed, securely.
About the researchCensuswide conducted the research with 505 UK IT and marketing decision-makers between 01.03.24 and 12.03.24. Censuswide abides by and employs members of the Market Research Society, which is based on the ESOMAR principles, and is a member of The British Polling Council.

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Identity Governance & Administration Market Projected to Reach $24.42 billion by 2030 – Exclusive Report by 360iResearch

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April 26, 2024

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PUNE, India, April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The report titled “Identity Governance & Administration Market by Component (Services, Solution), Modules (Access Certification & Compliance Control, Access Management, Identity Lifecycle Management), Organization Size, Deployment, Vertical – Global Forecast 2024-2030” is now available on 360iResearch.com’s offering, presents an analysis indicating that the market projected to grow from a size of $8.46 billion in 2023 to reach $24.42 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 16.34% over the forecast period.

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Identity governance and administration (IGA) has emerged as a critical policy-driven approach aimed at fortifying digital identities within organizations, ensuring that proper access is provided to the right individuals for valid reasons. Across the globe, the demand for IGA solutions is on the rise, driven by the need to tackle sophisticated cyber threats, comply with stringent data protection laws, and adapt to the digitization wave sweeping through industries. Challenges include integrating these solutions with pre-existing IT frameworks, primarily in organizations reliant on legacy systems. The North American market, led by the United States and Canada, is at the forefront of this expansion, embracing technological advancements and stringent regulatory standards. Meanwhile, the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region is navigating its unique landscape, with the EU focusing heavily on compliance through GDPR and the Middle East and Africa gradually recognizing the value of digital security. The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing a significant uptrend in IGA solutions adoption, spurred by digital transformation initiatives and cybersecurity awareness, with China and India playing pivotal roles. This global perspective highlights the universal importance of IGA in today’s digital era, highlighting the critical balance between innovation, security, and regulatory compliance in safeguarding digital identities.
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The key players in the Identity Governance & Administration Market include Broadcom, Inc., SAP SE, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, and others. These prominent players focus on strategies such as expansions, acquisitions, joint ventures, and developing new products to strengthen their market positions.
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