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4IR: The Transformative Power of IoT and GIS
Society is at an interesting inflection point as the combination of big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) come together in what some are hailing as ...Full Article
Heptio Bucks Kubernetes Distribution Trend
As container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes make hybrid infrastructure more agile, gradually usurping the role of virtual machines, more tools are emerging from upstream developers of the open source ...Full Article
IBM Adds V100 GPUs to IBM Cloud; Targets AI, HPC
IBM today announced availability of Nvidia V100 GPUs in the IBM Cloud. The move keeps pace with Amazon and Microsoft Azure which also offer V100s and is more evidence ...Full Article
Red Hat Buys Container Startup CoreOS
Red Hat is expanding its push into the nascent micro-services and container orchestration sector with the acquisition of plucky startup CoreOS. The acquisition announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) is valued ...Full Article
Quantum Computers Threaten Data Encryption
The promise of quantum computing comes with a major downside: "Cryptographically useful" quantum machines will threaten public key encryption used to secure data in the cloud, a new report ...Full Article
Cumulus Networks Riding Shift to Open Nets
Open networking specialist Cumulus Networks closed its latest funding round this week as it seeks to capitalize on the market shift to agile datacenter operations. The company, Mountain View, ...Full Article
‘What If’ Cloud Disaster Scenarios: Risks and Damages
Like over-reliance on a single food source (potatoes, Ireland, 1845) or a single energy source (OPEC oil, United States and other industrialized countries, 1973), the rapidly growing global adoption ...Full Article
HPE, Portworx Partner to Speed Container Workloads
The explosion of on-demand applications like ride hailing and movies is said to be fueling the shift to cloud-native and container-based application frameworks that can meet growing performance requirements. ...Full Article
Apple’s Datacenter Push Rattles Cloud Market
Apple's announcement this week that it would spend more than $10 billion over the next five years on datacenter construction promises to shake up the public cloud market. Responding ...Full Article
Enterprise Software, AI Driving Global IT Spending
Spending on enterprise software is projected to jump by a healthy 9.5 percent in the coming year as demand is stimulated by software services platforms, according to a new ...Full Article
