New Chips from AWS: Arm-based General Purpose and ML Inference
The “x86 Big Bang,” in which market dominance of the venerable Intel CPU has exploded into fragments of processor options suited to varying workloads, has now encompassed CPUs offered ...Full Article
Kubernetes Boosts Performance, Adds Complexity
IT administrators have complained in recent industry surveys that infrastructure complexity is forcing them to spend more time monitoring systems. Many are looking to outsource monitoring tasks. Among the ...Full Article
Demand for AI Training Data Spurs a Cottage Industry
Growing concerns about AI replacing workers is being offset by a cottage industry of startups providing entry-level employment in developing countries to tag, label and otherwise prepare data used ...Full Article
Hyperion: AI-driven HPC Industry Continues to Push Growth Projections
Three major forces – AI, cloud and exascale – are combining to raise the HPC industry to heights exceeding expectations. According to market study results released this week by ...Full Article
Performance Upgrades, Automation, Even Security, Fuel Cloud Migration
The wholesale lift and shift of enterprise applications and databases from on-premise datacenters to the cloud is being driven by considerations such as improved network bandwidth, scaling ability, higher ...Full Article
Google Deal Adds VMware to Hybrid Cloud Offerings
Public cloud vendors continue to expand options offered to enterprise customers looking for a painless way to migrate more workloads to the cloud via VMware tools while preserving their ...Full Article
JEDI Saga Continues as AWS Seeks Contract Details
The protest by Amazon Web Services of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract to Microsoft is expected to touch off another round of deployment delays as cloud competitors use ...Full Article
Microsoft Azure Adds Graphcore’s IPU
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, is expanding collaboration with Microsoft to offer its intelligent processing units on the Azure cloud, making Microsoft the first large public cloud vendor ...Full Article
Docker’s Sale Elevates Kubernetes as Standard
Docker, the cloud software startup that pioneered hyperscale use of agile application containers, is ending its six-year run as an enterprise vendor, selling off its container platform to cloud ...Full Article
AMD Gains Design Win for Tencent Server
Tencent, the Chinese cloud giant, said it would use AMD’s newest Epyc processor in its internally-designed server. The design win adds further momentum to AMD’s bid to erode rival ...Full Article
