The Good, Bad & Ugly of Public Clouds: Plenty of Each
Anything as immense, impactful and powerful as public cloud computing is bound to be variegated, encompassing the good, the bad and the ugly. As AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM ...Full Article
Report: Qualcomm Dropping ARM Server Chips
ARM Holding’s efforts to break Intel Corp.’s grip on the server chip market and dominance in the datacenter has apparently taken another hit with a report that Qualcomm Inc. ...Full Article
Mesosphere’s Investors Bet on Multicloud
Demand for capabilities like machine learning and distributed databases are attracting investors looking to cash in on the shift to micro- and other exascale services running on hybrid cloud ...Full Article
15 Years in 28 Minutes: Eni’s GPU-based HPC4 Speeds Oil Reservoir Simulations
The most powerful supercomputer in commercial use, multinational energy company Eni’s Nvidia GPU-powered HPC4, simulates 15 year’s worth of oil reservoir production in an astounding average of 28 minutes, ...Full Article
Dell, in AI-IoT Push, Teams with Microsoft, Intel; New 4-Socket Servers Support GPUs, FPGAs
At its annual Dell Technologies World conference in Las Vegas this week, the company launched new PowerEdge four-socket servers featuring FPGA support along with AI and IoT partnerships with ...Full Article
AMD Continues to Nip at Intel’s Heels
Advanced Micro Devices appears to making market share headway at the expense of long-time rival Intel Corp. based on quarterly results released this week. AMD reported quarterly revenue totaling ...Full Article
Rackspace is Latest to Roll Bare Metal Service
Rackspace is expanding it managed private cloud services with the addition of six new bare metal instances that it collectively refers to as bare metal as a service. The ...Full Article
Cryptojacking: Cryptocurrency Mining Meets Malicious Intentions
With data center technology evolving relentlessly, IT professionals must grapple with a dynamic security landscape, as malicious actors leverage new capabilities to launch even more sophisticated cyberattacks, particularly in ...Full Article
Heptio Builds Bridge to Kubernetes
Heptio, the startup launched in 2016 by the creators of the Kubernetes container orchestrator, is launching an open source initiative along with partner Actapio aimed at bridging cloud native ...Full Article
Serverless Computing: Big Potential – with a Few ‘If’s’
Serverless computing has become one of enterprise technology’s hottest buzzwords, even though the term is a bit of a misnomer. No, servers aren’t going away. But serverless computing, also ...Full Article