In the two decades since Sun Microsystems declared “the network is the computer,” cloud computing has established itself as the de-facto model. The economic benefits of a near infinite, elastic infrastructure that customers don’t need to manage themselves have assured that. Storing information centrally has made it possible to deliver information wherever it’s needed, to ...Full article
Waves of fear and anger circulate over digital transformation projects – most of them destined to fail – sweeping the enterprise IT landscape. The technology is willing, but in too many cases the spirit of cooperation between senior managers is weak. The epicenter of digital transformation failure, according to a new study: poor CIO/CTO collaboration. ...Full article
Google Cloud Platform now supports nested virtualization, a feature that allows enterprise users to run multiple virtual machines inside a Linux VM—or as Google describes it, "VMs inside of VMs." The cloud upgrade is aimed at enterprise users who want to run both legacy and cloud-native applications on hybrid IT without modifications. The company noted ...Full article
Cloud-native applications being delivered via application containers now have the option of using what open-source leader Red Hat calls "container-native" storage integrated with the latest version of its RedShift container platform. Red Hat released an update to its container platform this week as the latest version of its Kubernetes-based container application platform unveiled in August. ...Full article
While most of the enterprise computing world – users and vendors – ride CPU and GPU ponies around the data center merry-go-round, the brass ring of ultra-fast processing and lower power consumption would be to bring FPGAs into mainstream frameworks, enabling this thoroughbred racehorse of compute to handle massively parallelized hardware offloading without extensive programming ...Full article
For the advanced data center of the coming decade, the fight for dominance calls to mind a half dozen sumo wrestlers in the ring at the same time, each putting themselves into position for the struggle ahead. Last week saw a slew of partnerships and products from Nvidia designed to enable its GPU technologies to ...Full article
As the industrial sector continues to spearhead Internet of Things deployments, investors are targeting analytics and machine learning startups focused on applications like predictive maintenance and streamlining business processes. Among the latest investees is FogHorn Systems, a developer of "edge intelligence" software for industrial IoT applications, which this week announced the closing of a $30 ...Full article
Public cloud vendors continue to add processing horsepower in the form of Nvidia GPU accelerators and the graphics processor vendor's Tesla datacenter GPUs. Oracle announced this week it is adding Nvidia's Tesla GPUs to its public cloud a month after cloud rival Google announced plans to add Nvidia GPUs to its public cloud. Both are ...Full article
Public cloud vendors continue to roll out tweaks and other new features designed to differentiate their services. Among them are tools designed to give enterprise users greater control over cloud services as more applications and data are moved there. With that in mind, Google is unveiling new identity and access management (IAM) features for handling ...Full article
One of the features of the 66th HPC User Forum last month was the presentation of the NCSA/Hyperion 2017 industry survey by Bill Kramer, the National Center for Supercomputer Application’s director of the Blue Waters Project and @Scale Programs. This NSF-funded survey captures “Worldwide Best Practices in Partnerships between HPC Centers and Industrial Users,” in ...Full article
Life is a journey, but getting to your data shouldn’t have to be. Data is the lifeblood of most businesses, but many organizations aren’t taking full advantage of their data because it’s complex, globally distributed and hard to access. From high-resolution sensors on the edge to industrial IoT devices, the growth in unstructured data is ...Full article
Advances in storage, processor, and cloud technology have made run-anywhere big data analytics available to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) as well as Fortune 1000 companies. Run-anywhere means that only a processor and sufficient memory and storage to support a given data analytics task need be provided – and that all the historical data ...Full article
As the Kubernetes container orchestrator makes steady inroads inside large companies for machine learning and big data workloads, the community behind the Google-backed platform is releasing its third update of 2017 with an emphasis on buttressing existing security and stability. Kubernetes 1.8 was released Wednesday (Sept. 27) by a team that includes developers from Google ...Full article
Here come the Volta 100-based servers. Nvidia today announced an impressive line-up of servers from major partners – Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, and Supermicro – all featuring Nvidia’s new V100 GPUs. Availability information was not immediately clear but with SC17 approaching in November it’s likely at least a few of the new servers ...Full article
A host of infrastructure vendors are attempting to broaden their cloud footprint as more enterprises hedge their bets with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. Among them is software-defined object and cloud storage vendor Scality, which announced this week it is offering a cloud connection tool that extends its object storage beyond Amazon Web Services' (NASDAQ: AMZN) ...Full article
Debate over AI’s ultimate impact, utopic vs. dystopic, on humanity has swing back and forth this year like a Hegelian Dialectic on steroids. This publication has given voice to the dystopics, led by Elon Musk, who held sway in late spring and early summer. Now as we enter autumn we’re seeing thoughtful counterarguments on the, ...Full article
With all the noise around AI’s potential in medicine, you may be wondering how well it is actually performing. No one knows the real answer – for one thing it is a moving target – but the IEEE Spectrum is attempting to keep a rough scorecard using an interactive infographic, the latest published today. Not ...Full article
The blockchain ecosystem continues to evolve as competing industry alliances seek to push the transaction database technology deeper into enterprises, including the first international real estate transaction. Blockchain serves as a distributed ledger framework that posts transactions in real-time as cryptographically unique “blocks,” visible to authorized users. These blocks cannot be reversed or changed, with ...Full article
If the AI hype cycle were a dial setting on a washing machine, it would now be in the spin cycle phase. It’s intense. The talk and hopes for AI are so exciting, there’s so much potential, we wait breathlessly for an incredible new age of smart systems that will revolutionize not just IT but, ...Full article
Red Hat continues to expand its ties with major cloud providers with the addition of the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server on its flagship Linux platform. Separately, the open source and cloud infrastructure specialist (NYSE: RHT) announced it would revise its liberal patent policy. The new guidelines are intended to "protect open innovation," the ...Full article
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