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Oil and Gas Supercloud Clears Out Knights Landing Inventory: All 38,000 Wafers
The McCloud HPC service being built by Australia’s DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) outside Houston is set to become the largest oil and gas cloud in the world this year, providing ...Full Article
Nvidia Wins Mellanox Stakes for $6.9 Billion
The long-rumored acquisition of Mellanox came to fruition this morning with GPU chip maker Nvidia’s announcement that it has purchased the high-performance network interconnect maker for $6.9 billion – ...Full Article
AI Fear Factor: White Collar Jobs in Crosshairs, Cash-free Retail Banned, Breaking up the FAANGS
Though in its infancy, AI already is powerful – or potentially powerful – enough to have raised not only public awareness but also anxiety, spurring responses from policy makers, ...Full Article
How Open Software-Defined Storage Unchains the Enterprise
By decoupling storage controller software from hardware, software-defined storage (SDS) has the potential to unleash a number of possibilities, including massive storage scalability to handle massive amounts of data. ...Full Article
National AI Debate: Intel Calls for Details, Budgets, in Response to White House Initiative
The Trump Administration’s release last month of the “American AI Initiative,” aimed at prioritizing federal R&D investments in machine intelligence, has stirred major debate in Washington and the technology ...Full Article
Google Offers Fixed-Price Cloud Storage
Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. ...Full Article
Google, DeepMind Target Machine Learning at Wind Energy
Wind energy adoption is further along than you might think: Iowa, for example, is expected to generate about half its electrical power from wind within a few years; in ...Full Article
Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” intones the ancient Chinese proverb, and it can be applied to enterprise AI journeys. But what’s the right ...Full Article
Hybrid Clouds Remain Unsecured as New Threats Emerge
The added layer of operational complexity associated with hybrid cloud deployments is only making it harder for security teams to ward off attacks—assuming cloud users have created those teams ...Full Article
Workplace Collaboration: Why Workflow Management in Storage Technology Is Critical to Team Success
Search for “workplace collaboration” and you’ll find self-improvement websites with recommendations covering how to brainstorm as a team, collectively work toward a common goal, manage participation levels from various ...Full Article
