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Hyper-scalers Speeding Apps Via FPGAs
Nimbix is the latest HPC cloud vendor to collaborate with FPGA pioneer Xilinx Inc. to accelerate cloud datacenter workflows that increasingly include computing-intensive data analytics, machine learning and video ...Full Article
DDN in Product Line Refresh, Multi-level Security for Lustre
Ahead of next week’s SC16 conference, high end storage vendor DataDirect Networks today announced a raft of product line updates, including a new burst buffer appliance and updates to ...Full Article
Graphcore Touts 100x ML Speedup with PCIe Plug-In
Graphcore emerged from stealth mode this week with news of a $30 million Series A round to help finance ongoing development of its machine learning (ML) and deep learning ...Full Article
VMs Still Have Legs, Survey Finds
Faster server provisioning and consolidation along with long-term cost savings remain the key benefits of virtualization, according to a new vendor survey, with virtual machines keeping pace with trendy ...Full Article
Fighting for the ‘Cool Kids’: OpenCAPI Takes on PCIe, Vows 10X Improvement
With two major announcements this week, IBM continues to drive the build-out of its advanced scale ecosystem, aligning industry heavies to jointly develop open technologies that tackle the perennial ...Full Article
Move It: Gen-Z Consortium Vows New Semantic Fabric for Data Movement at Scale
Industry powerhouses have joined forces to address an issue that has confounded system architects since the advent of multi-core computing, one that has gained in urgency with the emergence ...Full Article
What I Saw at the Enterprise IT Revolution: Radical Analytics Chic
If "a revolution is an idea that has found its bayonets" (Napoleon) then data analytics is the bayonet driving a revolution now underway in enterprise IT. It’s a revolution ...Full Article
Privacy Framework Spurs Euro Datacenter Expansion
Cloud services and data governance vendors are moving swiftly to comply with a new U.S.-European Union privacy regime that imposes stricter requirements on U.S. companies for protecting the personal ...Full Article
Surge Seen for Software-Defined Datacenter Market
The booming big data market along with growing demand for automated datacenter operations are spurring adoption of management and other services offered by software-defined datacenters, according to a new ...Full Article
Shedding Light on Dark Data in the IoT Era
Gartner Group forecasts that nearly 26 billion devices, from sensors, to medical diagnostic to tools, thermostats and cars, will be connected to the Internet by 2020. In this era ...Full Article
