IBM Bolsters Storage for AI, De-Dupe and Cloud DR
IBM made several announcements today designed to help customers get more out of their existing storage infrastructure, including IBM Storwize and FlashSystem arrays, the SAN Volume Controller (SVC) software-defined storage ...Full Article
Intel Increases AI, Chip Investments
Intel Corp.’s venture capital arm unveiled a dozen new investments in startups this week spanning AI, cloud, Internet of Things and semiconductor technologies. Intel Capital announced the new investments ...Full Article
Emerging Advanced Scale Tech Trends Focus of Annual Tabor Conference
At Tabor Communications' annual Advanced Scale Forum (ASF) held this week in Austin, the focus was on enterprise adoption of HPC-class technologies and high performance data analytics (HPDA). It’s ...Full Article
Does Your Company Have an AI Strategy, Really?
At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, AI is one of tech’s hottest buzzwords these days. The hype is impossible to escape. Of course, some trends become the ...Full Article
Microsoft Adds Intel FPGAs to Azure Cloud for AI
Intel and Microsoft are again joining forces, this time to accelerate Azure Cloud machine learning tools, including AI inferencing models, based on Intel’s FPGAs. Microsoft also this week announced ...Full Article
Mesosphere’s Investors Bet on Multicloud
Demand for capabilities like machine learning and distributed databases are attracting investors looking to cash in on the shift to micro- and other exascale services running on hybrid cloud ...Full Article
Dell, in AI-IoT Push, Teams with Microsoft, Intel; New 4-Socket Servers Support GPUs, FPGAs
At its annual Dell Technologies World conference in Las Vegas this week, the company launched new PowerEdge four-socket servers featuring FPGA support along with AI and IoT partnerships with ...Full Article
Google Is Latest ‘Big Three’ Cloud Provider to Offer V100 GPUs
Google announced today that Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in public beta on its Google Cloud Platform (GCP), accessible through its infrastructure-as-a-service offering Compute Engine and on ...Full Article
Google, Atos Partner on Cloud Machine Learning
Google continues to add regional cloud partners as it seeks to differentiate its public cloud offerings while distributing its machine learning building blocks. Atos, the French big data platform ...Full Article
DHL Using AI to Overhaul Logistics
What do semi-autonomous truck platoons, chat-bots, and fraud detection cameras have in common? They’re all part of a big plan that DHL unveiled yesterday to remake itself with artificial ...Full Article