Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching a suite of platforms and services aimed at accelerating development and adoption of AI, with an initial focus on deep learning. HPE joins a growing list of enterprise vendors delivering new tools, some of them as open source software, to speed AI development. For instance, cloud rivals Amazon Web Services ...Full article
Cisco Systems and Google announced a hybrid cloud partnership this week designed to securely deliver distributed enterprise applications and services across Google Cloud Platform and on-premise infrastructure. The partners said the partnership reflects the enterprise shift to multi-cloud deployments as a way of managing cloud migrations and avoiding vendor lock-in—a pitch made competitors of Amazon ...Full article
Executing stock trades often comes down to being first in the queue of traders. Hence, developers of high-frequency trading platforms that connect trading servers to networks focus on reducing latency to nanoseconds to boost so-called "tick-to-trade" networking performance. Solarflare, which specializes in connecting trading servers to Ethernet networks, claimed this week it has along with ...Full article
Cray, which has been seeking new points of entry for its supercomputing technology into the cloud enterprise arena, has struck a partnership with Microsoft and its enormous Azure customer base, a deal that Cray believes has the potential to unlock broader growth for the company. The pair announced on Oct. 23 they are offering dedicated Cray ...Full article
Data analytics has become an essential function within today’s high performance enterprise data centers, clouds and hyperscale platforms. AI and machine learning (ML) are pillars of today’s technological world, offering solutions for better and more accurate decisions based on great amount of data. Although the basic concept behind AI – neural networks creating rules that ...Full article
ARM is launching a "secure core" approach to bulletproofing the Internet of Things that addresses network security at the microcontroller level. The approach introduced at a company event this week seeks to provide a framework for embedding security into the next wave of connected IoT devices that must be "born secure," the chip specialist asserted. ...Full article
The Pentagon is looking for ways to recast is its cloud security guidelines as a way to accelerate the department's slow migration to cloud computing. Meanwhile, key cloud providers to the U.S. military are extending their capabilities via acquisitions while expanding their capabilities to handle classified workloads. The Defense Department's chief information officer for cyber-security ...Full article
Imagine if all the atoms in the universe could be added up to a single number. Big number, right? Maybe the biggest number conceivable. But wait, there’s a bigger number out there. We're told that Go, the world’s oldest board game, has more possible board positions than there are atoms in the universe. Urban myth? ...Full article
DevOps, the intersection of software development, IT operations and quality assurance, is gaining adherents as enterprises look for tools and practices for speeding the delivery of applications and services while meeting compliance requirements. A new vendor survey finds that the embrace of DevOps is accelerating while software development teams were generally satisfied with the rigor ...Full article
The powerhouse team of Apple and General Electric are joining forces to offer predictive data and analytics industrial apps from Predix, GE’s IIoT platform, to Apple iPhones and iPads. Today, the two companies unveiled a new Predix software development kit (SDK) for Apple’s iOS, tools for developers to make their own industrial IoT apps. The ...Full article
The long-running (by enterprise IT standards) competition between the Google-backed Kubernetes container orchestrator and Docker's Swarm appears to have a winner: Docker announced this week the enterprise edition of its pioneering application container platform would offer native support for Kubernetes. The endorsement likely makes Kubernetes the de facto industry standard for container orchestration, a key ...Full article
With open source software accounting for more than half of some products, process gaps are emerging for managing security. Vendors pushing approaches for monitoring software supply chains point to the recent Equifax breach affecting about 143 million consumers as a case in point: hackers exploited and Apache Struts vulnerability after the company ignored a security ...Full article
System imbalance – in which processing power, memory capacity and data movement are in a state of disequilibrium – customarily has meant that the processor sits idle waiting for data to be shipped to it. Imbalance continues today, but with the advent of open source tools, such as Apache Kafka and Storm enabling real-time data ...Full article
Among the ways proposed to secure application containers and micro-services as they proliferate in datacenters is more rigorous oversight of the software supply chain. With those security considerations in mind, Google, IBM and a host of infrastructure partners said this week they are collaborating to address the security challenges faced by developers as micro-services go ...Full article
Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC two years ago still stands as the largest tech deal ever. But as big as Dell EMC is, there’s an even larger Dell entity at play: Dell Technologies, a grouping of acquisitions that includes Dell, EMC, VMware, Virtustream and Secureworks, among others. Michael Dell has touted the technology breadth ...Full article
Cloud services rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are collaborating on a deep learning library designed to accelerate development of models used to construct neural networks. The open source project dubbed "Gluon" would deliver an API that leverages a collection of neural network components to define machine-learning models. The partners said Thursday (Oct. 12) the ...Full article
A test fleet of autonomous delivery trucks scheduled for deployment next year will be outfitted with self-driving system based on Nvidia's AI processing technology for autonomous vehicles. The AI car computer called Drive PX will be combined with German automotive supplier ZF's self-driving platform in a fleet test planned by package delivery and logistics vendor ...Full article
On Tuesday (Oct. 10), Intel delivered a 17-qubit superconducting test chip to research partner QuTech, the quantum research institute of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. The announcement marks a major milestone in the 10-year, $50-million collaborative relationship with TU Delft and TNO, the Dutch Organization for Applied Research, to accelerate advancements in quantum computing. Like ...Full article
Building on collaboration announced earlier this year, SAP said this week it would incorporate Nvidia's AI platform based on the graphics processing specialist's Volta architecture into its machine-learning portfolio. The upgrade to SAP's Leonardo machine learning suite includes the addition of Nvidia's Tesla V100 GPUs. The new Nvidia DGX-1 systems will be used for AI ...Full article
Bitcoin mining is among the latest threats to public cloud security as hackers breach enterprise computing resources to hunt for the digital currency. Cloud security vendor RedLock reported earlier this month that hackers were using Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) cloud computing resources to mine for bitcoins. The process involves collecting all transactions made during ...Full article
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