IBM today announced availability of Nvidia V100 GPUs in the IBM Cloud. The move keeps pace with Amazon and Microsoft Azure which also offer V100s and is more evidence of the effort by major cloud providers to rapidly beef up their AI and HPC capabilities. In making the announcement, IBM was quick to note it ...Full article
Red Hat is expanding its push into the nascent micro-services and container orchestration sector with the acquisition of plucky startup CoreOS. The acquisition announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) is valued at $250 million, underscoring the soaring market valuations for open-source innovators in the expanding micro-services segment. Since its founding in 2013, San Francisco-based CoreOS has gone ...Full article
Just days after reports surfaced of a major management overhaul at Dell EMC, this week new reports emerged that Dell Technologies – the umbrella organization that encompasses a raft of tech companies either developed or acquired by Dell, including VMware – may be acquired in a “reverse merger” by…. VMware. Neither Dell nor VMware are ...Full article
The promise of quantum computing comes with a major downside: "Cryptographically useful" quantum machines will threaten public key encryption used to secure data in the cloud, a new report warns. The Cloud Security Alliance also found in a report released last week that companies are aware of the growing security risk associated with quantum computing ...Full article
Since 2014, internal and external cyber-attacks have accelerated and there is evidence that these assailants are penetrating traditional defenses at an increasing rate. Today’s security technologies seek primarily to defend a perimeter, but both firewalls and end-point security cannot defend a perimeter with 100 percent certainty. Additionally, heuristics and logging tools may find an attacker ...Full article
Reverberations from Dell’s acquisition of EMC in October 2015 – at $67 billion, the biggest in the history of the technology industry – have extended into 2018 with the news that the company’s core server and storage business units will absorb its Converged Platforms and Solution Division (CPSD), formerly located within Dell EMC’s Infrastructure Solutions ...Full article
Early efforts to use blockchain technology for financial transactions are gathering momentum with the launch of a pilot project between a blockchain startup and a Vermont city to use the digital ledger to record real estate deals. Propy Inc., which last fall used a blockchain framework called Ethereum to purchase an apartment in Kiev, Ukraine, ...Full article
AI-phobia, particularly the fear that intelligent machines will destroy jobs, is firmly rooted in a portion of the general public. By contrast, most business leaders are eager to embrace AI-related technologies and anticipate multiple positive impacts from them. A new survey from Pegasystems , an RPA and customer engagement software vendor, reports that the business ...Full article
No sooner had one system, used by BP, been declared the most powerful supercomputer in the industrial sphere than it quickly has been displaced. Last Thursday (Jan. 18) it was Italian energy company Eni’s turn to take the lead with the launch of its latest petawhopper. At 18.6 petaflops (peak) the new cluster, HPC4, becomes ...Full article
Open networking specialist Cumulus Networks closed its latest funding round this week as it seeks to capitalize on the market shift to agile datacenter operations. The company, Mountain View, Calif., said it raised $43 million in new funding in a round led by Telstra Ventures, the investment arm of the Australian telecommunications and technology provider. ...Full article
Like over-reliance on a single food source (potatoes, Ireland, 1845) or a single energy source (OPEC oil, United States and other industrialized countries, 1973), the rapidly growing global adoption of public cloud services platforms carries with it risk – risk with the potential to cause a least temporary operational havoc for cloud users, their customers ...Full article
Used across a wide range of processes to improve or replace human input, machine learning is attractive because it is able to addresses problems never before tackled due to the prohibitively large volumes of data involved. But when it comes to managing these often massive data sets, it’s important to think big from the start ...Full article
AI comes in many forms, each at its own stage of development with its own definition, techniques and capabilities. Some forms – such as Artificial General Intelligence, AI super-intelligence or Strong AI, the kind of AI that might someday automate all work and that we might lose control of – live in the future and ...Full article
The explosion of on-demand applications like ride hailing and movies is said to be fueling the shift to cloud-native and container-based application frameworks that can meet growing performance requirements. With that in mind, stateful container specialist Portworx unveiled an approach this week designed to quickly deploy and scale container workloads. Teaming with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, ...Full article
Over the last several years, the focus in the data center has been the massive build-out of new infrastructure or upgrading older facilities with newer technologies. While this has driven significant increases in performance and available bandwidth, it’s also introduced a new problem. Data center operators keep finding themselves in the hot seat when a ...Full article
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 to provisions of a U.S. tax overhaul approved in December, Apple announced Wednesday (Jan. 17) it plans capital expenditures totaling more than $30 billion through 2023. ...Full article
Spending on enterprise software is projected to jump by a healthy 9.5 percent in the coming year as demand is stimulated by software services platforms, according to a new global IT forecast that also predicts heavy investments in AI over the next three years. Gartner predicted this week that overall IT spending will continue to ...Full article
U.S. military and intelligence agencies continue to look for new ways to use artificial intelligence to sift through huge amounts of video imagery in hopes of freeing analysts to identify threats and otherwise put their skills to better use. The latest AI effort announced last week by the research arm of the U.S. intelligence apparatus ...Full article
“Transformation” is on everyone’s lips – but what does this really mean? In the past, CIOs were preoccupied with aligning IT with the business, but now there’s a sense of urgency about embedding IT into the business, improving the experience of end customers (including internal customers) and driving real business value. This all starts with ...Full article
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 energy supplies flowing – to the point where new discovery and extraction techniques have driven up supply, driving energy prices down and making the United States ...Full article
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