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GigaSpaces Orchestrates Cloud Spin-Off
In a bid to sharpen its focus on the booming market for cloud management, in-memory computing specialist GigaSpaces Technologies is spinning off its Cloudify unit into a new company ...Full Article
‘Neural’ Network Fabric Boosts Server Links
As network bottlenecks mount in datacenters—a hurdle that will only get worse with the deployment of business analytics using machine learning—there is a growing need for networking solutions that ...Full Article
‘Colossus’ IPU Targets Datacenters, Cloud
A second $30 million funding round for U.K. AI chip developer Graphcore sets up the company to go to market with its “intelligent processing unit” (IPU) in 2017 with ...Full Article
Rackspace Partners With Pivotal, Expands With Google
Cloud manager Rackspace is working with cloud services provider Pivotal Software and Google's public cloud unit to deliver new multi-cloud and other capabilities. The partnerships include management of Pivotal's ...Full Article
Specs Target Container Portability
Application containers are getting more portable across different implementations thanks to a two-year effort to forge "vendor neutral" specifications released this week by an industry group. The Open Container ...Full Article
IBM Rolls ‘Pervasive’ Encryption As Threats Grow
As more stringent data protection rules enter into force, increasing enterprise requirements for encryption, IBM is stepping into the breach with an encryption engine based on its Z Systems ...Full Article
The New World of Healthcare Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is having a profound impact on our society. According to IDC, the economic value of digital transformation is already more than 20 percent of global GDP. And ...Full Article
IBM Expands Partnership With App Developer
IBM has been working with an application developer startup called Lightbend Inc. on artificial intelligence, cognitive and other distributed applications, most destined to run in the cloud. The startup ...Full Article
Survey Sees Major Middleware Overhaul
Among the implications of the enterprise migration to the cloud is a predicted overhaul of middleware platforms over the next several years as the integration of business applications drives ...Full Article
400Gb Open Ethernet Switch from Mellanox
Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX) today announced Spectrum-2, billed by the interconnect company as the most scalable 200 and 400GB/second Open Ethernet switch, offering 10X scalability while reducing datacenter OPEX via ...Full Article
