Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Monday, June 29, 2026
HPE Guarantees 100% Uptime with Primera Storage
Enterprises will no longer need to compromise between agility and reliability when it comes to their high-end storage environments according to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which today unveiled Primera, a new high-end storage array that’s essentially self-managing and uses AI techniques to deliver 100% reliability guaranteed. HPE  has no shortage of tier-one, enterprise-class storage options, with ... Full article
At ISC: For the HPC Industry, These Are the Good Old Days
For technology vendors in HPC and HPC-related markets driven by increased demand for AI, enterprise and exascale solutions, this is the best of times – with better times likely in the offing. HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research took the occasion of its semi-annual HPC market update breakfast today at the ISC conference in Frankfurt to ... Full article
NetApp Stresses Consistency in Hybrid Deployments
Cloud providers seeking to cash in on the accelerating shift to hybrid and multi-cloud deployments are emphasizing their ability to provide consistent performance across in-house and public cloud installations. That feature, for example, allows developers to migrate and access data regardless of where it is stored. NetApp Inc. is taking the consistency theme a step ... Full article
HPE Expands GreenLake Service
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which launched its GreenLake hybrid cloud initiative in 2017 as a pay-as-you-go automated service, said it is expanding that cloud services strategy with new tools along with partnerships with Google Cloud and datacenter specialists CyrusOne and Equinix. Among the goals is extending those services from the datacenter to the cloud and out ... Full article
At ISC: DDN Launches EXA5 for AI, Big Data, HPC Workloads
DDN, for two decades competing at the headwaters of high performance storage, this morning announced an enterprise-oriented end-to-end high performance storage and data management for AI, big data and HPC acceleration. In so doing, the company said it’s bringing to the burgeoning enterprise market for AI some of the transferable capabilities – with an emphasis ... Full article
Machine Learning Day Highlights ISC’s AI Lineup
ISC, the major European conference for advanced scale computing to be held next week at the Messe Frankfurt conference center, will feature an extensive lineup of presentations, birds-of-a-feather discussions and panels on all things AI. A highlight of AI at ISC: Machine Learning Day, on Wednesday, June 19. Here’s a rundown on the dates, times ... Full article
Deep Learning that Keeps Learning – Near-Time Training at the Edge
Deep learning is still a stick-figure emulation of human learning. DL can be trained up to have a supercharged IQ based on an astounding amount of information, enabling it to execute some tasks beyond human capability. But deep learning has a learning disability. People learn continually (it’s hoped) – every day, in real time. But ... Full article
AI for Cloud Security Attracts Venture Funding
Vectra, the cloud security platform vendor, has raised an additional $100 million in its latest funding round led by TCV, an early investor in technology companies ranging Facebook to Splunk. Vectra specializes in AI-based network detection and response technology embodied in its flagship Cognito cloud security platform. Since its founding in 2010, the San Jose-based ... Full article
Digital Transformation: AI, RPA and DPA
 Many businesses today seek to transform their operations using digital technology and automation. After years of encouragement from experts to migrate to the cloud, to automate processes and to prepare for waves of technology innovation, the path forward can still seem unclear. Organizations can get confused about what to automate, and how. But there’s a ... Full article
FPGAs’ Reputation for Security May Belie Vulnerability in Cloud
Thanks to their flexibility, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are often a first choice during system development – however, a new report by scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany has called their security into question. FPGAs’ flexibility allows them to be used to assume nearly any function performed by other computer chips ... Full article
Qualcomm Invests in RISC-V Startup SiFive
Investors are zeroing in on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture and the processor intellectual property being developed by a batch of high-flying chip startups. Last fall, Esperanto Technologies announced a $58 million funding round. The chip IP vendor is incorporating more than 1,000 RISC-V cores onto a single 7-nm chip. Data storage specialist Western ... Full article
Google Eyes Multi-Cloud Analytics With Looker Deal
Google Cloud has moved to buttress its position in the booming data analytics sector with its acquisition of data platform and visualization tool vendor Looker. Underscoring a trend among infrastructure vendors, Google Cloud said Thursday (June 6) Looker’s platform would run on multiple clouds and Looker customers would be able to access data from Google ... Full article
FAANGs under Fire: Congress, Administration Looking at Possible Antitrust, Data Ethics Abuses
The rising outcry against perceived anti-trust, data ethics and hate speech abuses of FAANG companies has sparked actions from Congressional committees, federal law enforcement agencies and regulators from both political parties looking into the activities of “Big Tech.” The Associated Press reports that  the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are investigating Google, ... Full article
Microsoft, Oracle Link Their Clouds
Public cloud rivals Microsoft and Oracle are collaborating to allow customers to migrate and run enterprise workloads across each other’s cloud. Market analysts said the partnership illustrates how multi-cloud deployments are creating opportunities for cloud providers to offer services that interoperate with competitors. The cloud partners said Wednesday (June 5) the interoperability arrangement would for ... Full article
AMD Verifies Its Largest 7nm Chip Design in Ten Hours
AMD announced last week that its engineers had successfully executed the first physical verification of its largest 7nm chip design – in just ten hours. The AMD Radeon Instinct Vega20 – which boasts 13.2 billion transistors – was tested using a TSMC-certified Calibre nmDRC software platform from Mentor. AMD scaled Calibre nmDRC on 4,140 cores ... Full article
AI Pitfalls and the Hidden Value of the ‘Citizen Data Scientist’
Buzzy new technologies are commonly perceived, at least for a while, as panaceas. When Big Data emerged some years ago, Hadoop hype was rampant. Addison Snell, CEO of industry watcher Intersect360, jokes about data analytics project managers viewing Hadoop as something of a magic potion. “There was this big notion of ‘Hey, I've got this ... Full article
Infineon Boosts Auto, IoT Portfolios with Cypress Deal
Infineon Technologies’ acquisition of Silicon Valley mainstay Cypress Semiconductor Corp. underscores what increasingly looks like the end of an era for high-flying U.S. chip makers that have seen their fortunes dim as semiconductor manufacturing shifts to Asia and the pace of industry consolidation quickens. The $10.1 billion cash deal announced over the weekend would make ... Full article
PayPal Feeds the DL Beast with Vault of Fraud Data
PayPal is no stranger to fraud. As one of the Internet’s first online payment services, PayPal has been exposed to every type of wire fraud imaginable (and some beyond imagination). Sometimes the fraudsters had the upper hand, but now, thanks to deep learning (DL) models running on high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, PayPal is leveraging ... Full article
Making SQL Servers Resilient in the Cloud
In IT, failure is not only an option, it’s inevitable. And in an era when businesses depend on big data, high-performance data analytics (HPDA), machine learning and AI applications running in the cloud, failures can have serious consequences. Failure per se is not the problem. Downtime – i.e., minimizing downtime – is the problem. There ... Full article
Air Force, MIT Collaborate on AI Research
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is working with the U.S. Air Force to develop new AI technologies with potential dual-use applications. The Air Force plans to invest about $15 million annually in the MIT-Air Force AI Accelerator. Basic research will focus on rapid prototyping and application of AI algorithms and systems to “improve Air Force ... Full article