More HPC M&A: HPE to Acquire Cray for $1.3B
Venerable supercomputer pioneer Cray Inc. will be acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise for $1.3 billion under a definitive agreement announced this morning. The news follows HPE’s acquisition nearly three ...Full Article
Looking at AI/ML Edge-Core-Cloud Workflows
Edge computing is emerging as the killer app for AI and ML, with staggering growth predictions. Projections indicate there will be more than 50 billion internet-connected objects and devices ...Full Article
Net Appliances Emerge to Handle Data Deluge
Network infrastructure has had a hard time keeping up with the data explosion and surging demand for real-time capabilities as everything but the kitchen sink is networked. Incremental progress ...Full Article
Beware Nuclear Winter: Another on the Way?
Hot as AI is right now, there are growing concerns that technology vendors may cause AI climate change – a new AI winter brought on by hype and unmet ...Full Article
VMware Boosts Multi-Cloud Push with Bitnami Deal
VMware continues its push into micro-services for multi-cloud deployments with its acquisition of Bitnami, a provider of server applications and development tools running virtually or hosted in the cloud. ...Full Article
SAP HANA Gets a Cloud Boost
SAP continues to push its flagship HANA in-memory database platform higher into the cloud with a range of new analytics, cloud storage, AI and robotic process automation features aimed ...Full Article
Solarflare: Network Processing Wastes 25% of Data Center Resources
Solarflare, the high performance network specialist under agreement to be acquired by Xilinx, has announced a network processing off-loading capability – one that its Wall Street customers have used ...Full Article
Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift
Cloud infrastructure providers targeting the booming hybrid cloud market continue to coalesce around the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator that serves as a bridge between datacenters and public clouds for applications ...Full Article
RHEL 8 Aimed at Hybrid Cloud Deployments
The Linux operating system continues to evolve as more enterprise users shift their IT operations to hybrid and multiple cloud deployments while seeking a single OS capable of handling ...Full Article
NVMe Fabrics Enter Express Lane
As the volume and velocity of data grows exponentially, storage vendors are increasingly promoting NVM Express as a device interface for accessing non-volatile storage media. Enterprise storage vendors such ...Full Article
