Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

NetApp, Lenovo Join All-Flash-Server Forces

September 14th, 2018 (0)

Two industry heavies, NetApp and Lenovo, yesterday launched a strategic partnership in which the companies are co-developing what will be Lenovo-branded storage products combining NetApp’s all-flash data management solutions with Lenovo’s ThinkSystem hardware infrastructure. The two companies’ technologies combined ...

Cisco Servers, Oracle Cloud, Boost AI Offerings

September 12th, 2018 (0)

Cisco and Oracle made strategic AI announcements this week, boosting their machine/deep learning capabilities based, in part, on Nvidia GPU integrations. Building on the foundation of its nine-year-old UCS (Unified Computing Systems) server line, Cisco announced the UCS C480 ...

How FPGAs Accelerate Financial Services Workloads

September 11th, 2018 (0)

Editor’s note: While FSI companies are unlikely, for competitive reasons, to disclose their FPGA strategies, James Reinders offers insights into the case for FPGAs as accelerators for FSI by discussing performance, power, size, latency, jitter and inline processing. Even ...

At HPC on Wall Street: AI-as-a-Service Accelerates AI Journeys

September 8th, 2018 (0)

AIaaS – artificial intelligence-as-a-service – is the technology discipline that eases enterprise entry into the mysteries of the AI journey while lowering the financial risk. It’s already making an impact on the financial services industry, with institutions offering AI-based ...

HPC on Wall Street: A Conference on Advanced Technology Strategies in the Financial Services Industry

September 7th, 2018 (0)

Few industries are more avid for low latency, compute power and high performance data analytics (HPDA) than the financial services sector. The investment banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, buy-side money management firms and commercial banks are in a permanent ...

No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it’s Going to Look Different

September 5th, 2018 (0)

There was a time when developers needed convincing that they should care about operational concerns. Since then, much of the effort of DevOps movement has gone toward getting developers to solve key operational problems — especially deployment — earlier ...

The New Fabrics and Mix-and-Match Systems: The Next Big Thing in Data Center Servers?

August 30th, 2018 (0)

If you’ve wondered about the new fabric efforts undertaken by the Gen-Z, OpenCAPI and CCIX consortia – if you’ve wondered what it all means – here's a way to look at the problem they're taking on: it's akin to ...

GlobalFoundries Drops 7nm Development Program

August 28th, 2018 (0)

Under the new leadership of CEO Tom Caulfield, custom semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries has announced the seemingly sudden decision to drop its 7nm FinFET development program and restructure its R&D teams to support what the company calls its “enhanced portfolio ...

Modernizing Infrastructure: The Future of Data

August 28th, 2018 (0)

The modern business is built around automation. Virtualization and remote applications have afforded corporations unprecedented control of their operations, often allowing them to solve problems before they even occur. However, with the rise of IoT devices, that automation now ...

The Adaptive FPGA Platform that Might Carry AI – and Everything Else – Forward

August 27th, 2018 (0)

Change is a constant, the pace of change accelerates, adapt to change or wither.... Right, sorry, these are givens. But still, these days, it bears repeating because creative destruction and innovation adoption in high end data center computing seem ...