Author Archives: Todd R. Weiss

Todd R. Weiss

Capt. Kirk Goes Back to Space Aboard New Shepard

October 13th, 2021 (0)

The first time I saw old, original “Star Trek” episodes, I thought the show was stupid. But that was then. Decades later, I came to appreciate the original “Star Trek” and its characters, adventures, its mission and its brilliance. ...

IBM Integrating AI to Help Enterprises See and Monitor Weather and Climate Impacts and Risks

October 12th, 2021 (0)

As destructive global warming trends continue to dramatically affect businesses around the world, IBM is bringing together AI data, weather data and climate risk analytics to give enterprises hardier tools to prepare for and respond to changing environmental conditions ...

AI Modeling Reinvented: It’s Time to Shift to Better Data, Rather Than Just Building Better Models

October 8th, 2021 (0)

For several years, AI model building has been centered on creating better models to further push the envelope of increased performance and broader AI capabilities in enterprise computing and research. But new approaches may be needed, including a dramatic, ...

Run:AI Looks to Bring 100% GPU Utilization to its AI-Focused Compute Orchestration Platform

October 6th, 2021 (0)

One of the biggest challenges in AI development is to efficiently allocate and utilize the available power and performance of GPUs that are crunching AI models. Running those workloads on GPUs is expensive and companies want to make the ...

GlobalFoundries Has Started Its IPO Process – Now What?

October 5th, 2021 (0)

Since July, semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries has been the subject of rumors and news reports that said the company was the takeover target of market leader Intel Corp. or that it might be pursuing an IPO. Well, while no Intel ...

At VMworld 2021, VMware, Nvidia, Dell Unveil Deeper Cloud, Edge, Kubernetes Partnerships

October 5th, 2021 (0)

From new enterprise cloud capabilities to deeper features for edge computing applications to broader Kubernetes usability, there is something to help every business at this year’s VMworld 2021 virtual technology conference. Opening the event are announcements from VMware and ...

For Enterprises Struggling to Get the Most from Their Data, It’s Time for Cognitive Search

October 4th, 2021 (0)

All organizations are notorious for hoarding data. Whether it is research data, customer data, marketing data or another type of data, businesses are savvy to the power of data-driven insights and are keen to hold onto whatever data they ...

How Nvidia Sees ‘Reasoning’ Emerging in Natural Language Processing

October 1st, 2021 (0)

When machines can truly think for themselves, one of the greatest hopes for AI will be realized. At Nvidia, where massive amounts of compute power and a wide range of GPUs and related hardware and software are regularly being ...

AMD, HPE Hire Away Cloud Executives from Intel, VMware

September 30th, 2021 (0)

The industry-wide hiring wars have taken their latest toll at Intel and VMware, which each recently lost an experienced cloud executive to competitors AMD and HPE. After more than 22 years at Intel, Lynn A. Comp has joined AMD ...

Astera Labs Raises $50M Series C Round to Boost AI Connectivity in the Cloud

September 29th, 2021 (0)

Three-year-old connectivity chip startup Astera Labs just secured $50 million in new Series C funding to help the company add two upcoming products to its portfolio while building out its development, support and sales teams. Astera Labs presently offers ...