Targeting cloud computing, datacenters, network infrastructure and Internet of Things sensors, chipmaker Intel Corp. said it is sampling the latest version of it field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) said this week its Stratix 10 FPGAs are the first chips based on its 14-nanometer tri-gate process technology used to implement its HyperFlex architecture. ...Full article
In its drive to deliver "Google infrastructure for everyone," application container specialist CoreOS is rolling out an image registry designed to accelerate container builds on its orchestration platform. CoreOS said its Quay container registry adds another Kubernetes-based component to its Tectonic container orchestrator released in April. Container registries are used to secure and store private ...Full article
Masters of the Data Universe: Uber, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Google. We know who they are. They hire genius data scientists who wrestle data into submission, building elite analytics superstructures that light up their data and reveal insights about their markets while nurturing interactive customer relationships at scale that leave everyone else shaking their heads, wondering ...Full article
Microsoft is jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with the formation of a new research group that will seek to make the technology more accessible via its Azure cloud while helping to deliver new capabilities across applications, services and infrastructure. The infrastructure portion of the effort focuses on combining the processing engines like GPUs and ...Full article
Amazon Web Services has seeded its cloud with Nvidia Tesla K80 GPUs to meet the growing demand for accelerated computing across an increasingly-diverse range of workloads. The P2 instance family is a welcome addition for compute- and data-focused users who were growing frustrated with the performance limitations of Amazon’s G2 instances, which are backed by three-year-old ...Full article
The freshly minted Dell EMC division of Dell Technologies is on a mission to take HPC mainstream with a strategy that hinges on engineered solutions, beginning with a focus on three industry verticals: manufacturing, research and life sciences. “Unlike traditional HPC where everybody bought parts, assembled parts and ran the workloads and did iterative engineering, we want ...Full article
SAP completed it acquisition of big data analytics startup Altiscale Inc. this week, saying it would fold Altiscale's data cloud and Hadoop services into its existing SAP HANA cloud and emerging analytics efforts. Reports that SAP (NYSE: SAP) was pursuing Altiscale, based in Palo Alto, Calif., began surfacing in August. SAP did not disclose details ...Full article
As more data, enterprise applications and other workloads move to public clouds, greater attention and investment are going into cloud security as a way to protect data while managing information and cloud services. Those services in particular are attracting investment capital. Among the latest startups to reap that windfall is cloud data protection startup Druva ...Full article
IBM’s aggressive push into the data analytics market continued today with the announcement of Project DataWorks, a Watson initiative that IBM said is the first cloud-based data and analytics platform to integrate all types of data and enable AI-powered decision-making. Project DataWorks is designed to lower the complexity for business managers and data professionals to ...Full article
The booming big data market along with growing demand for automated datacenter operations are spurring adoption of management and other services offered by software-defined datacenters, according to a new report that also forecasts a 32-percent annual growth rate for virtualized computing, networking and storage. In a report released this week, Allied Market Research pegs the ...Full article
SGI, the old-line supercomputing vendor recently acquired by HPE, has teamed with ANSYS, the product engineering and simulation software company, to set a new world record for scaling commercial CAE code. According to SGI, the two companies broke a record set last year by running ANSYS Fluent combustion modeling software across 145,000 CPU cores, exceeding ...Full article
Container leader Docker is broadening a partnership with Microsoft to run Docker Engine and a datacenter management platform with Windows Server 2016. The partners rolled out the first technical details of Windows Server containers last August, calling it "the first step in bringing containers to the Windows Server ecosystem." Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Docker said ...Full article
Greed, fear and regulations have historically driven the capital markets industry. But with today’s rising regulatory regime and its attendant costs, the driving factors have boiled down to fear and regulations. Greed has been swamped by compliance requirements that, at one tier one bank, cost $1.9 billion last year. This is the grim picture drawn ...Full article
As more enterprise data, applications and other workloads shift to the cloud, vendors of cloud monitoring services are expanding their offerings to help DevOps teams troubleshoot issues related to distributed applications running on hybrid clouds, application containers and other micro-services. The latest comes from Datadog, a provider of monitoring services for cloud applications. The New ...Full article
As more data and enterprise applications are moved to public cloud services, a surprisingly high number of enterprises responding to a new cloud security survey said they are not encrypting their data and other cloud workloads. The cloud adoption survey of more than 400 executives spanning a variety of industries who attended the recent VMworld ...Full article
Most enterprises have a mix of modern apps that need adaptable infrastructure support and traditional software supported by old school IT. CIOs tend to solve this problem by focusing all internal development on traditional IT needs and writing checks to a public cloud provider to support the rest. But is giving up that type of ...Full article
As it challenges public cloud leader Amazon Web Services, Oracle Corp. is rolling out a cloud-based analytics package spanning data services, applications and infrastructure. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) unveiled its analytics cloud this week during a company event used by company cofounder and CTO Larry Ellison to declare the database giant was taking on AWS (NASDAQ: ...Full article
Gartner Group forecasts that nearly 26 billion devices, from sensors, to medical diagnostic to tools, thermostats and cars, will be connected to the Internet by 2020. In this era of the Internet of Things (IoT), the enormous amounts of information generated from these devices will result in considerable challenges for organizations in every industry across ...Full article
The Energy Department's Advanced Manufacturing Office is expanding industry access to its network of national laboratories to leverage supercomputing capabilities that can be used to model, simulate and analyze industrial processes and products. DoE's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) recently announced another series of funded projects designed to expand the program's scope to other ...Full article
The brick and mortar of an industrial Internet of Things is arriving with a security framework designed to balance the safety and reliability requirements of industrial operations with an attempt to define the "trustworthiness" of emerging manufacturing networks. An industrial IoT security blueprint released on Monday (Sept. 19) by a two-year-old industry consortium stresses five ...Full article
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