Rackspace is Latest to Roll Bare Metal Service
Rackspace is expanding it managed private cloud services with the addition of six new bare metal instances that it collectively refers to as bare metal as a service. The ...Full Article
GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation
Pending European data privacy rules that also address “automated decision-making” are increasingly seen as having a broad impact on enterprise deployment of AI applications, prompting a U.S.-based group to ...Full Article
Ethics Moves Front and Center in AI Debate
The breakneck pace of machine intelligence development is prompting welcome assessments of the ethical implications of a technology that will have a profound effect on workers, consumers and most ...Full Article
IoT Developers Look to Blockchain for Security
Securing the Internet of Things appears to have advanced well beyond default factory settings to include data and network security features baked into IoT components as well as comprehensive ...Full Article
Nvidia Pushes Deep Learning into Datacenters, IoT
Nvidia upped the ante on GPU acceleration for deep learning with the latest release of inferencing engine that supports a range of machine intelligence applications running in datacenters as ...Full Article
Chip Makers Collaborate on NVMe Fabrics
A trio of chip makers will collaborate on a reference architecture for speeding deployment of NVM Express over storage network fabrics. Cavium Technologies, which specializes in processors for cloud ...Full Article
U.S. Circles Wagons on Foreign Tech Deals
The seemingly inevitable consolidation of the global semiconductor industry, plagued as it is by overcapacity and an unending search for new markets, was slowed at least temporarily by a ...Full Article
Intel, Microsft Partner on Machine Vision, AI
Intel and Microsoft are reuniting to support the chip maker’s vision processing unit on the software giant’s machine learning platform. The partners said the combination would allow AI inference ...Full Article
NSF Partners With VMware on IoT, Launches Computing Efforts
The National Science Foundation has launched a partnership with VMware to advance edge computing infrastructure required for the Internet of Things (IoT). Separately this week, NSF unveiled a $30 ...Full Article
Start-up Aims AI at Automated Tuning of Complex Systems
There was a simpler time when system tuning consisted of adjusting a relatively few number of knobs, a manual and not overly demanding task that brought out the best ...Full Article


