In Challenge to Intel, AMD Eyes Server Upgrades
AMD is zeroing in on datacenter overhauls as a means of chipping away at rival Intel Corp.’s x86 dominance of the enterprise IT infrastructure market. Some market analysts are ...Full Article
Azure, Kubernetes Benefit from Hybrid Cloud Shift
One in four companies in a new vendor survey said they rely on multiple cloud providers, twice as many as two years ago, with Microsoft Azure benefitting the most ...Full Article
Microservices Help Scale Distributed Apps, Survey Finds
The ability to scale applications and get products and services out the door faster are the primary reasons DevOps teams are embracing microservices, a new survey finds. Microservices are ...Full Article
Few ML Projects Moving to Production, Survey Finds
The confluence of accelerators like cloud GPUs along with the ability to handle data-rich HPC workloads will help push more machine learning projects into production, concludes a new study ...Full Article
Ampere Arm Chip Launched into Hot Data Center Processor Market; Lenovo, Oracle on Board
Another source of upheaval in the red hot data center server processor market emerged this week from Ampere, led by former Intel President Renee James, which announced it has ...Full Article
IoT App Developers Get New Tools
As the Internet of Things matures, IoT application development is moving center stage with frameworks designed to accelerate deployment of devices along with platforms to handle data management. Meanwhile, ...Full Article
IBM to Brand Rescale’s HPC-in-Cloud Platform
HPC (or big compute)-in-the-cloud platform provider Rescale has formalized the work it’s been doing in partnership with public cloud vendors by announcing its Powered by Rescale program – with ...Full Article
Edge Caching: Key to Edge-to-Cloud Computing & Storage
Today, our enterprise workforce is on the go. You're likely one of those people. The worker who checks into the office from home, or from a wifi hotspot in ...Full Article
NetApp Buys Kubernetes Service Provider
Hybrid cloud specialist NetApp claims to have pulled together the components for a multi-cloud application container orchestration platform with its acquisition of StackPointCloud, developer of a Kubernetes cluster orchestration ...Full Article
Nvidia Accelerates AI Inference in the Datacenter
Nvidia is bringing AI inference to the datacenter with a new platform consisting of an inference accelerator chip--the new Turing-based T4 GPU--and a refresh of its inference server software ...Full Article