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Low Code Gets an Industrial-Strength Boost
The rapid turnaround approach to enterprise application development known as low code continues to gain momentum with this week’s acquisition of cloud native application development specialist Mendix by the ...Full Article
Modernizing ‘Cranky’ Rendering Code for HPC-based Animation
When Miguel – the 12-year old protagonist of “Coco,” the recently released film from Disney and Pixar – first sees the Land of the Dead, it’s a beautiful moment ...Full Article
Cloud Computing, IoT Drive Chip Design Surge
Semiconductor design is booming, propelled by unrelenting demand for new memory chips, cloud computing and the digitization of entire industry sectors such as automotive and industrial. Technology tracker IHS ...Full Article
Scaling the Cloud and High Availability: Two Perspectives, One Approach
System administrators and database administrators have different perspectives on high availability (HA). The differences can cause problems ranging from consternation and conflict to wasted investments and excessive downtime. While ...Full Article
Istio Service Mesh Advances to Production
Istio, the “service mesh” intended to connect application components and thereby boost the capabilities of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator, has advanced over the past year as a way of ...Full Article
Cloud Revenue Growth at 50% Clip, Top 4 Providers Extend Dominance
Public cloud market growth is a steamroller on steroids. It’s also an industry that, if not winner-take-all, is increasingly dominated by the top quartet of service providers. Second quarter ...Full Article
AWS Joins Cloud Memory Push
Public cloud vendors are focusing their infrastructure upgrades on the growing number of memory-intensive enterprise workloads. Earlier this week, Google rolled out virtual machines that support persistent memory for ...Full Article
Google Cloud Adds Another Nvidia GPU
Google continues to add GPU horsepower in tandem with its internally developed deep learning processors to its cloud platform with this week’s announcement that it will soon offer Nvidia’s ...Full Article
SAP HANA Gets Intel Memory Boost on Google Cloud
Intel Corp. and SAP are joining forces with Google to offer cloud virtual machines supporting persistent memory for in-memory workloads running on the SAP HANA relational database manager. The ...Full Article
Overstock.com Sparks Customer Insights from Decades of Data – ‘Fast Is Never Fast Enough’
We often hear that online retail is among the business sectors furthest along on its digital transformation and AI journeys. Overstock.com , the giant (2017 revenues: $1.75 billion) internet ...Full Article
