3 Reasons Why Object Storage Is Right for AI and Machine Learning
Enterprises of all types are ramping up AI and machine learning projects, but realizing their true potential requires overcoming significant technology barriers. While compute infrastructure is often the focus, ...Full Article
VMware Engine Extends Google’s Hybrid Push
Google continues to expand its hybrid cloud partnership with VMware designed to ease migration of enterprise workloads to the cloud while preserving existing infrastructure. Google Cloud this week unveiled ...Full Article
Nvidia Unveils Two Edge AI Offerings for ‘Smart Everything’
Extending latency-sensitive AI workloads to the edge is the objective of two new products from Nvidia, announced today at the company’s annual (virtual) GPU Technology Conference (GTC), based on ...Full Article
Nvidia Launches Ampere GPU with Up to 20X the AI Performance
Nvidia’s first Ampere-based graphics card, the A100 GPU, packs a whopping 54 billion transistors on 826mm2 of silicon, making it the world’s largest seven-nanometer chip. Launched today during a pre-recorded ...Full Article
Cloud Hosting Companies Help Customers Contain Costs – Winning Trust and Loyalty
Gartner predicts that through 2020, 80 percent of organizations will overshoot their cloud IaaS budgets. Gartner attributes cloud cost management problems to three main causes: Companies are increasingly adapting ...Full Article
Startup MemVerge Launches Memory-centric Mission
Memory situated at the center of the computing universe, replacing processing, has long been envisioned as instrumental to radically improved data center systems performance. Combined with accelerated processing (GPUs, ...Full Article
AI Edge Partners Unveil Video Analytics Server
Hailo, the AI chip startup, is teaming with a Japanese systems designer and manufacturing giant Foxconn to develop an AI edge processor aimed at video analytics applications. The edge ...Full Article
Inspur Takes OCP Beyond Hyperscalers
Inspur, China’s server leader, is expanding its AI offerings based on Open Compute Project specifications, including an OCP “cloud optimized” server geared to SAP HANA workloads and running Intel’s ...Full Article
Feds, Chipmakers Mull Jump-starting U.S. Chip-making Capacity
The Trump administration is in talks with Intel and TSMC to spur development of new chip factories in the U.S., according to a report in the Wall Street Journal ...Full Article
Pure, Dell EMC, Backblaze, Vast Announce New Storage Products
Four storage vendors announced new products over the past week, here’s a news roundup: Storage-as-a-Service vendor Pure Storage has announced FlashBlade Purity 3.0, a scale-out, all-flash platform for AI ...Full Article
