The likelihood of a job being automated can be understood by asking the 4Ds; is the job dull, dangerous, dirty or dear? Not sure about dirty or dangerous but people tell me backup is dull, and it’s often very expensive. Our ability to keep pace is also a problem. Keeping data protected is a growing ...Full article
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” - William Faulkner, Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1949 This time, AI isn’t fooling around. This time, ...Full article
An open source version of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator is intended to package and deploy cloud-native applications to restricted, on-premise infrastructure such as government clouds. Gravitational, which was founded by Rackspace veterans in 2015, said its aptly named Gravity open-source Kubernetes packaging tool emphasizes secure cloud-native application deployments. It also allows users to take a ...Full article
Flex Logix, the embedded FPGA specialist, has shifted gears by applying its proprietary interconnect technology to launch an inference engine that boosts neural inferencing capacity at the network edge while reducing DRAM bandwidth requirements. Instead, the inferencing engine draws greater processing bandwidth from less expensive and lower-power SRAMs. That inference approach is also touted as ...Full article
Industry Program Director Brendan McGinty welcomed guests to the annual National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Industry Conference, Oct. 9-11 in Urbana, Illinois. One hundred eighty from 40 organizations registered for the invitation-only, two-day event. Day two opened with a keynote address by NCSA Director William Gropp, who explained how advanced computation has changed over ...Full article
As native cloud applications expand across companies large and in between, greater attention is being paid to securing the ephemeral application containers increasingly used to deliver distributed apps. Cloud security vendors are now attempting to scale those efforts in order to protect container-native applications and other microservices. With that in mind, Qualys Inc. announced this ...Full article
In the possible climax to the recent spate of major M&A activity (Salesforce-MuleSoft; Cloudera-Hortonworks), the biggest of the bunch so far is IBM’s acquisition of open source powerhouse Red Hat, a $34 billion blockbuster bid by IBM to lead the surging Linux big data analytics and hybrid cloud market, following a similar splash in June ...Full article
In a bold stroke that promises to shake up the hybrid cloud market, IBM is acquiring open source leader Red Hat. "The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer,” asserted IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said in announcing the acquisition. "IBM will become the world's number one hybrid cloud provider, offering companies the only open cloud ...Full article
From supercomputers to cell phones, every system and software device in our digital panoply has a growing number of settings that, if not correctly set, constrain performance, wasting precious cycles and watts. Yet systems tuning is tedious and requires specialized skills and thus commonly falls into the category of tasks left undone. Startup Concertio, creator ...Full article
Dome9, the public cloud security specialist, has been acquired by another Israel-based cybersecurity vendor, Check Point Software. Check Point, Tel Aviv, said Wednesday (Oct. 24) its acquisition of Dome9 would bolster its Infinity security architecture by adding multi-cloud security along with security policy tools. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Dome9’s customers used its ...Full article
London is the Olduvai Gorge of western capitalism. Under it lie layers of mercantile history, artifacts of trade left by the Celts, Britons, Romans, Vikings, Danes, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Jews, Irish, Indians, Australians, Canadians, South Africans, Arabs, Africans, Asians – oh, and the British – all come to London to seek opportunity in this ages-old business ...Full article
The National Science Foundation will fund a broad range of cybersecurity, data privacy and network security research projects that includes a new Center for Trustworthy Machine Learning. NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace initiative will support 225 cyber and network security, privacy, cryptography and AI projects totaling $78.2 million, the agency announced Wednesday (Oct. 24). Funding ...Full article
When future drivers tell their kids to “get in the car” they’ll be instructing them to climb into a mobile computer – that’s consuming very large, and growing, quantities of data. Autonomous vehicles (AV) are essentially rolling computers connected to the environment, infrastructure and the Internet. This computer continuously produces and processes data to keep ...Full article
Oracle and high-end simulation specialist Altair are expanding their partnership to offer computational fluid dynamics (CFD) services on the Oracle cloud. The HPC simulations would tap into GPU cloud instances and data pipelines recently announced by Oracle and Nvidia. Earlier this month, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) became the first public cloud vendor to support GPU specialist ...Full article
A new programming platform designed to accelerate cloud-native application development is jumping on the multi-cloud bandwagon to deploy code quickly to the cloud in order to deliver container and serverless applications. Pulumi Corp., which was launched in June by a pair of veteran tool developers, also this week announced early-round venture financing totaling $15 million. ...Full article
Even as a press report yesterday declared that Intel has abandoned its current effort to produce a 10nm chip – a report denied by Intel – looming rival AMD and Oracle today announced the availability of the first AMD EPYC processor-based instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2018, the AMD EPYC processor ...Full article
The Pentagon’s top research agency is focusing its considerable AI efforts on the interim stage of machine intelligence between “narrow” and “general” AI. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which announced a multi-year $2 billion “AI Next” “campaign last month, is tightening its focus on teaching machine “common sense” reasoning. That capability remains beyond ...Full article
Is it any wonder there are cameras everywhere imaging nearly everything? One reason is chip scaling, with key components from semiconductor makers allowing equipment manufacturers to fabricate quarter-size cameras that are becoming ubiquitous in agricultural, automotive and industrial markets. Now, inspection camera manufacturers are adding smarts in the form of image processing that according to ...Full article
AI stands before the HPC industry as a beacon of great expectations, yet market research repeatedly shows that AI adoption is commonly stuck in the talking phase, on the near side of a difficult chasm to cross. In response, many vendors have built integrations of their server and storage platforms with AI hardware – usually ...Full article
IBM and Lenovo continue to expand their ongoing relationship beyond computing to include the automation of mundane but revenue-saving call centers and other customer support services. While the enterprise applications covered in the agreement are decidedly back-office, the estimated size of the multi-year deal is substantial: $240 million. IBM did not specify the exact length ...Full article
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