IBM Begins Power9 Rollout with Backing from DOE, Google
After over a year of buildup, IBM is unveiling its first Power9 system based on the same architecture as the Department of Energy CORAL supercomputers, Summit and Sierra. The ...Full Article
AI Researchers Assemble ‘Moments in Time’
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IBM Watson's unit have released a massive data set containing 1 million annotated video clips designed to spur development of new ...Full Article
Cost, Security Issues Persist Amid Cloud Boom
The billowing cloud market that is growing at an estimated 40 percent annually is being driven to new heights by the enterprise embrace of multi-cloud strategies along with a ...Full Article
Software-Defined Storage: Freedom Wrapped in Sheet Metal
A few months after we started Qumulo in 2012, VMware bought Nicira, a hot software- defined networking company, for $1.25 billion. As always, whenever a company without products in ...Full Article
HPE Launches AI Development Effort
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching a suite of platforms and services aimed at accelerating development and adoption of AI, with an initial focus on deep learning. HPE joins a ...Full Article
Intelligent Interconnect Architecture: AI Enabler
Data analytics has become an essential function within today’s high performance enterprise data centers, clouds and hyperscale platforms. AI and machine learning (ML) are pillars of today’s technological world, ...Full Article
SAP Upgrades AI Platform With Volta GPUs
Building on collaboration announced earlier this year, SAP said this week it would incorporate Nvidia's AI platform based on the graphics processing specialist's Volta architecture into its machine-learning portfolio. ...Full Article
Scality Extends Multi-Cloud Storage to Azure
A host of infrastructure vendors are attempting to broaden their cloud footprint as more enterprises hedge their bets with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. Among them is software-defined object and ...Full Article
Google Joins Rush to Nvidia Cloud GPUs
Google has taken down the notice on its cloud platform website that says Nvidia Tesla P100s are “coming soon.” The search giant announced Thursday (Sept. 21) the beta launch ...Full Article
Linux, Docker Gain in Public Cloud Deployments
As the enterprise application stack is fleshed out with micro-services and other emerging tiers, more applications are running in the cloud as the Linux operating system emerges as a ...Full Article
