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
A Close-Up Look at the World’s Largest HPC System for Commercial Research
For decades, high performance computing has driven more accurate, detailed and faster seismic exploration. As oil and gas have becomes harder to find, HPC has been essential to keeping ...Full Article
Dual Role Emerges For Microservices
Microservices, the agile architecture on which applications are built as a collection of different smaller services rather than an entire application, are being used to rework existing applications along ...Full Article
Memory Boom Propels Samsung Past Intel
The turbulent—and profitable—memory chip market has a new leader: Samsung Electronics has overtaken Intel Corp. as the world's largest memory supplier, ending Intel's 25-year reign. Gartner reported Thursday (Jan. ...Full Article
Microsoft Extends Hybrid Cloud Push With Avere Deal
Microsoft continued its foray into the high-end cloud storage sector with a deal this week to acquire hybrid cloud data storage and management vendor Avere Systems. The deal announced ...Full Article
Quantum: Joining the Worlds of High Performance and Enterprise Storage
High performance storage specialist Quantum today announced a scale-out NAS appliance that the company said is the first to bring together the qualities typically found in enterprise-class storage solutions ...Full Article
At SC17: Silicon, Systems and Science – the Good News and the Bad
We interviewed Karl Freund, lead analyst for deep learning and HPC at Moor Insights & Strategy, at SC17 in Denver to discuss the fertile crossover between AI and HPC ...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
Toward Broader AI Adoption: Deloitte’s ‘5 Vectors of Progress’
For all the talk about AI it's somewhat surprising that only about 10 percent of companies have invested in machine learning. While the talk underscores AI’s great potential, the ...Full Article
