VAST Data: There Will Be No Tears Shed When Tiered Storage is History
All-flash storage startup VAST Data is hoping that its vision of universal storage without multiple tiers will become the new normal for enterprises that are struggling to manage growing ...Full Article
At AWS re:Invent 2020, AWS Unveils Habana Gaudi AI Chips for Amazon EC2 Instances
AWS re:Invent 2020—Amazon Web Services has a broad swath of new and bolstered services coming for customers in 2021, from the implementation of powerful Habana Gaudi AI accelerators in ...Full Article
Make Way for Gen S: Generation Scale-Out
Gen X, Y, and Z get all the attention but what we need to talk about in IT is Gen S: Generation Scale-Out. Times have changed. The enterprise technology ...Full Article
Quantum’s New All-Terrain File System Brings Data Insights to Applications
Data storage vendor Quantum’s new All-Terrain File System (ATFS) platform will launch in December, giving enterprises the ability to integrate real-time data classification and insights with critical business applications ...Full Article
IBM Adds App Monitoring Tools With Instana Deal
IBM moved again this week to bolster its strategic hybrid cloud offerings built around Red Hat OpenShift with the acquisition of application performance monitoring specialist Instana Inc. Financial terms ...Full Article
EdgeQ Brings its SoC for 5G, AI and the Edge to Market
The low-latency connectivity of 5G wireless is being combined with AI-based computing in an edge computing platform unveiled by system-on-chip startup, EdgeQ, which is emerging from stealth mode. Founded ...Full Article
Nvidia Unveils Its A100 80GB GPU Powerhouse Supercomputing Chip
SC20 – Nvidia has doubled the memory of its A100 datacenter GPUs with its new A100 80GB version, which aims to drive new levels of supercomputing-class performance in a ...Full Article
FedEx Enlists Dell, Switch for Logistics Hub
Global shipper FedEx Corp. is upgrading its logistics infrastructure through a multi-cloud and edge computing partnership with Dell Technologies and data center operator Switch Inc. The cloud partnership announced ...Full Article
AWS-Designed Inferentia Chips Boost Alexa Performance
Almost two years after unveiling its Inferentia high-performance machine learning inference chips, Amazon has almost completed a migration of the bulk of its Alexa text-to-speech ML inference workloads to ...Full Article
AMD Enlists IBM in Confidential Computing Push
AMD continues to expand its confidential computing initiative launched during the summer with another cloud partnership, this one with an AI twist designed to accelerate and secure workloads running ...Full Article
