Efforts to move NVM Express technology over fabrics into enterprise datacenters advanced this week with progress toward a new industry specification entering its final review. NVM Express Inc. announced that its NVMe-oF architecture has entered a final 45-day review as a key step toward release of a formal specification. The NVMe-0F 1.1 architecture is designed ...Full article
5G is massively faster than 4G: 5GB/second vs. 100-200MB/second. Impressive, yes, but higher data rates explains only part of 5G's significance. The coming 5G cellular network will bring the network up to speed with faster processing (GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs), interconnects (NVLink, CXL) and communications fabrics (Infiniband, enhanced Ethernet). In turn, this means 5G, in combination ...Full article
Persistent storage emerged as an early requirement for shifting application containers to full production. Industry standards groups have since taken up the cause by launching so-called “cloud-native” storage projects around key components like the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator. Among those efforts is Rook, an open-source (Apache 2.0) storage effort launched recently by the Cloud Native Computing ...Full article
The latest enterprise version of the Docker software container platform is aimed at delivering cloud-native applications from hybrid cloud deployments out to emerging network edge devices. The container pioneer announced general availability of Docker Enterprise 3.0 on Monday (July 22). The new version also strengthens the application platform’s links to the de facto standard Kubernetes ...Full article
VMware has championed the virtues of virtualization of the x86 architecture for more than 20 years, and now the company plans to extend its commitment to virtualizing new architectures used for training AI models. VMware has announced its intended acquisition of Bifusion, provider of a multi-cloud AI infrastructure “disaggregation platform” for GPUs and FPGAs – ...Full article
Prompted by a recent backlash among employees at major U.S. cloud technology vendors, a new survey reveals mixed intentions among AI developers about how far they are willing to go in developing new law enforcement and other controversial tools. Among those surveyed were developers working for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), which announced a partnership this week ...Full article
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is AI’s moonshot, the next giant leap for the AI field. Microsoft regards it to be feasible enough to warrant a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, the not-for-profit research organization formed in 2015 by Elon Musk and others. AGI would mean breaking AI from its current, narrow confines in which AI ...Full article
Having witnessed advancements in facial recognition from the start, I’ve marveled at the accumulation of use cases as companies familiarize themselves with the technology. Facial recognition facilitates enhancements to everyday life — helping us organize our online photos, replacing badges for secure access on corporate campuses, rewarding repeat customers in retail spaces and more. On ...Full article
Oh, to be a data scientist now that AI is here. Money, prestige, deference and little interference, since few understand much of what data scientists do. Still, it isn’t all beer and skittles, data scientists face the daily grind, too. We recently spoke (under condition of anonymity) with a data scientist at a North American ...Full article
Ranked behind only the Dell-EMC and Avago-Broadcom acquisitions as the largest in the history of the technology industry, IBM’s $34 billion blockbuster purchase of Red Hat, announced last October and closed last week, may already be paying dividends. This morning IBM and AT&T announced a multi-year alliance, and Red Hat is in the middle of ...Full article
You use graph databases every day and probably don’t know it. Every time you visit LinkedIn and see first-, second-, or third-degree connections, you’re getting results from the social networking site’s professional network graph built on a graph database. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter all use graph databases and analytics to understand how users relate to each other ...Full article
Data scientists must deliver accurate, agile insights that enhance company performance. At the same time, they face a host of technical barriers involving legacy data silos, security, data governance and a growing variety of business intelligence (BI) tools. Oddly enough, the proliferation of BI tools actually presents organizations with a challenge: each business unit may ...Full article
Deep learning containers, a service recently rolled out in beta by Google, aims to help AI developers package the storage and computing dependencies required for services like its Kubernetes Engine when developers find themselves prototyping locally while using multiple cloud tools. The goal is to ensure that those dependencies are packaged correctly and consistently for ...Full article
Data centers and supercomputers running AI workloads consume a lot of power, and power use causes carbon emissions. That’s generally known, but it’s not widely appreciated just how energy- and carbon-intensive AI can be. Recently, a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst used neural network training as a case study to examine ...Full article
Nvidia’s DGX-Ready Data Center Program, announced in January and designed to provide colo and public cloud-like options to access the company’s GPU-powered servers for AI workloads, has expanded the program beyond the U.S. and doubled the number of data center partners to 19. The company said it has added three new partners in Europe, five ...Full article
Results for the second round of the AI benchmarking suite known as MLPerf were published today with Google Cloud and Nvidia each picking up three wins in the at-scale division. Google for ResNet-50, Transformer and SSD; Nvidia for GNMT, Reinforcement Learning and Mask R-CNN. In total, Nvidia claimed eight new performance records, three in the ...Full article
Surprise! Venture capital funding in AI is heating up – sorry, continuing to heat up – hitting a record high in 2018, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. The top 10 VC investors took part in 150 AI funding rounds, a jump of 67 percent over the 2014-2017 average, GlobalData said, with eight ...Full article
As GPU leader Nvidia closes its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox Technologies announced earlier this year, the HPC network interconnect specialist’s venture arm remains active, investing in two storage startups. Mellanox Capital did not disclose the amounts of its investments in storage startups CNEX Labs and Pliops, but did announced strategic partnerships with both companies. Pliops, which ...Full article
Going all-in on its bet that enterprises are poised to move mission- critical workloads across hybrid clouds, IBM finally announced the closing of its blockbuster deal to acquire open source software leader Red Hat for $34 billion. The transaction announced last October shook up the cutthroat hybrid cloud market. The lengthy gestation period for completing the ...Full article
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments fin the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. We'll update the listing each month. Here's the AI career news for early July: Tom Ellery DataDirect Networks has announced that Tom Ellery has been appointed to general manager and senior vice president ...Full article
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