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Author Archives: Doug Black
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NetApp, Lenovo Join All-Flash-Server Forces
September 14th, 2018 Comments Off on NetApp, Lenovo Join All-Flash-Server Forces
Two industry heavies, NetApp and Lenovo, yesterday launched a strategic partnership in which the companies are co-developing what will be Lenovo-branded storage products combining NetApp’s all-flash data management solutions with Lenovo’s ThinkSystem hardware infrastructure. The two companies’ technologies combined ...
Cisco Servers, Oracle Cloud, Boost AI Offerings
September 12th, 2018 Comments Off on Cisco Servers, Oracle Cloud, Boost AI Offerings
Cisco and Oracle made strategic AI announcements this week, boosting their machine/deep learning capabilities based, in part, on Nvidia GPU integrations. Building on the foundation of its nine-year-old UCS (Unified Computing Systems) server line, Cisco announced the UCS C480 ...
How FPGAs Accelerate Financial Services Workloads
September 11th, 2018 Comments Off on How FPGAs Accelerate Financial Services Workloads
Editor’s note: While FSI companies are unlikely, for competitive reasons, to disclose their FPGA strategies, James Reinders offers insights into the case for FPGAs as accelerators for FSI by discussing performance, power, size, latency, jitter and inline processing. Even ...
At HPC on Wall Street: AI-as-a-Service Accelerates AI Journeys
September 8th, 2018 Comments Off on At HPC on Wall Street: AI-as-a-Service Accelerates AI Journeys
AIaaS – artificial intelligence-as-a-service – is the technology discipline that eases enterprise entry into the mysteries of the AI journey while lowering the financial risk. It’s already making an impact on the financial services industry, with institutions offering AI-based ...
HPC on Wall Street: A Conference on Advanced Technology Strategies in the Financial Services Industry
September 7th, 2018 Comments Off on HPC on Wall Street: A Conference on Advanced Technology Strategies in the Financial Services Industry
Few industries are more avid for low latency, compute power and high performance data analytics (HPDA) than the financial services sector. The investment banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, buy-side money management firms and commercial banks are in a permanent ...
No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it’s Going to Look Different
September 5th, 2018 Comments Off on No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it’s Going to Look Different
There was a time when developers needed convincing that they should care about operational concerns. Since then, much of the effort of DevOps movement has gone toward getting developers to solve key operational problems — especially deployment — earlier ...
The New Fabrics and Mix-and-Match Systems: The Next Big Thing in Data Center Servers?
August 30th, 2018 Comments Off on The New Fabrics and Mix-and-Match Systems: The Next Big Thing in Data Center Servers?
If you’ve wondered about the new fabric efforts undertaken by the Gen-Z, OpenCAPI and CCIX consortia – if you’ve wondered what it all means – here's a way to look at the problem they're taking on: it's akin to ...
GlobalFoundries Drops 7nm Development Program
August 28th, 2018 Comments Off on GlobalFoundries Drops 7nm Development Program
Under the new leadership of CEO Tom Caulfield, custom semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries has announced the seemingly sudden decision to drop its 7nm FinFET development program and restructure its R&D teams to support what the company calls its “enhanced portfolio ...
Modernizing Infrastructure: The Future of Data
August 28th, 2018 Comments Off on Modernizing Infrastructure: The Future of Data
The modern business is built around automation. Virtualization and remote applications have afforded corporations unprecedented control of their operations, often allowing them to solve problems before they even occur. However, with the rise of IoT devices, that automation now ...
The Adaptive FPGA Platform that Might Carry AI – and Everything Else – Forward
August 27th, 2018 Comments Off on The Adaptive FPGA Platform that Might Carry AI – and Everything Else – Forward
Change is a constant, the pace of change accelerates, adapt to change or wither.... Right, sorry, these are givens. But still, these days, it bears repeating because creative destruction and innovation adoption in high end data center computing seem ...