Author Archives: Doug Black
Doug Black
Itseez Acquisition to Help Drive Intel’s Vision for Driverless Vehicles, IoT
May 27th, 2016
In breaking the news of a massive layoff last month, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich stated that the company is transforming itself from a PC and server company to one that “powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing ...
GPU-based Deep Learning Enhances Drug Discovery Says Startup
May 26th, 2016
Sifting through the avalanche of life sciences (LS) data for insight is an interesting and important challenge. Many approaches are used with varying degrees of success. Recently, improved hardware – primarily GPU-based – and better neural networking schemes are ...
HPE Spins Off Services Unit in Merger with CSC
May 25th, 2016
HPE (NYSE: HPE) continues its development into an entity of still-evolving form with the announced spin-off of its enterprise services unit, which will be merged with CSC, in what the two companies expect to be a $26 billion “pure-play” ...
Cray Courts the Enterprise with Pre-Configured Analytics Urika-GX
May 24th, 2016
Cray (NASDAQ: CRAY) continued its courtship of the advanced scale enterprise market with today's launch of the Urika-GX, a system that integrates Cray supercomputing technologies with an agile big data platform designed to run multiple analytics workloads concurrently. While ...
Machine Data Analytics for DevOps: Five Tips
May 24th, 2016
As more organizations adopt a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery approach, in which software is developed in shorter cycles and deployed into production at higher velocity, they need a new breed of tools that run at cloud scale and can be ...
An Insider’s Guide to Building a Cloud-based FinServ Big Data Analytics Shared Service
May 19th, 2016
Even if you’ve never lived through a data analytics development project at a financial services organization, you know it’s a complicated undertaking. But you may not know just how multifaceted, how layered, how political – how hard –a project ...
Memory Breakthrough: IBM Reports with 3 Bits/Cell PCM
May 18th, 2016
IBM scientists have broken new ground in the development of a phase change memory technology (PCM) that puts a target on competing 3D XPoint technology from Intel and Micron. IBM said it successfully stored 3 bits per cell in a 64k-cell ...
DDN Flashes New All-flash Arrays for Enterprise Use Cases at Scale
May 17th, 2016
DDN, a high-end storage standard bearer, this morning joined the ranks of storage vendors offering new all-flash technology with the launch of Flashscale, a family of all-flash, scale-out and scale-up products designed for read, write and mixed workloads for ...
DevOps in the Cloud: The Perfect Recipe for Continuous Delivery
May 16th, 2016
If you’re committed to DevOps as part of a continuous delivery model, should the cloud be part of your game? The world is changing fast. Ford has Tesla in its rear-view mirror. Taxicabs are giving way to Uber. Hotels ...
Nielsen and Intel Migrate HPC Efficiency and Data Analytics to Big Data
May 16th, 2016
Nielsen has collaborated with Intel to migrate important pieces of HPC technology into Nielsen’s big-data analytic workflows including MPI, mature numerical libraries from NAG (the Numerical Algorithms Group), as well as custom C++ analytic codes. This complementary hybrid approach ...
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