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Multi-Cloud Rivals See Opening in AWS Crash
Cloud rivals pounced this week in response to a major outage at Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage service, arguing that the high-profile crash underscores the need for enterprises ...Full Article
IoT Adoption Gaining Traction Despite Widespread Breach Vulnerability
IoT in 2017 is a hodgepodge of contradictions. Adoption of IoT is at once more widespread and more vulnerable than might be thought. Companies report greater IoT benefit than ...Full Article
Police Digital Forensics: Storing and Using an Overflow of Video Data
When police departments object to installing cameras in cruisers and on uniforms, it can undermine trust in the police, feeding an assumption that they want to conceal their activities ...Full Article
DevOps and Automation: There’s a Big Difference
Confusion abounds that DevOps and development automation are synonymous. An online search for implementing DevOps practices leads to lists of tools meant to automate everything from development to QA ...Full Article
Icelandic Data Center Cuts Power Costs, Carbon Footprint for ThreatMetrix
One can envision Iceland – an island country so remote it makes you wonder at the navigational prowess of the 9th century mariners who settled there, a place of ...Full Article
Propelling Deep Learning at Scale at Baidu AI Lab
Researchers from Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL) have adapted a well-known HPC communication technique to boost the speed and scale of their neural network training and now they ...Full Article
ExxonMobil, NCSA, Cray Scale Reservoir Simulation to 700,000+ Processors
In a scaling breakthrough for oil and gas discovery, ExxonMobil geoscientists report they have harnessed the power of 717,000 processors – the equivalent of 22,000 32-processor computers – to ...Full Article
Drug Developers Enlist Google Cloud HPC in the Fight Against ALS
Within the haystack of a lethal disease such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Lou Gehrig's Disease) there exists, somewhere, the molecular needle that will pierce this therapy-resistant affliction. ...Full Article
Open Net Effort Eyes ‘Industrialized’ SDN, NFV
Open networking organizations have announced a new development framework aimed at advancing software-defined networks and network virtualization via open source platforms, network device disaggregation and new network standards. The ...Full Article
