IBM-Nutanix Deal Moves Power Servers to Datacenters
Targeting AI, machine learning and other big data workloads, IBM and Nutanix will join forces to deliver the enterprise cloud vendor's software via Power servers. The deal is Nutanix's ...Full Article
RDMA Fabrics – Unlocking Enterprise Data Analytics
Ultra-low latency requirements in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry continue to drive interconnect considerations for the world’s most powerful supercomputers. In the enterprise world, it’s also apparent that ...Full Article
Multi-Cloud Network Targets Bottlenecks
As the embrace of multi-cloud strategies gathers steam and enterprises struggle to decide how to spread IT assets across the cloud and their own datacenters, new tools are emerging ...Full Article
Healthcare Cloud Platform Aimed at Cutting Costs, Aiding Digital Transformation
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet made a media splash last week with statements concerning continually rising healthcare costs in the United States, including: "If you talk about the world competitiveness ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Mammoth Volta GPU Aims High for AI, HPC
At Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC17) in San Jose, Calif., this morning, CEO Jensen Huang announced the company’s much-anticipated Volta architecture and flagship high-end GPU, the Tesla V100, noting that it ...Full Article
Shift to Cloud is Measured, IT Survey Finds
While more enterprises are moving workloads to the public cloud, a datacenter survey finds that the percentage of workloads residing in on-premise or co-location datacenters has remained stable since ...Full Article
Bright Computing 8.0 Adds Azure, Expands Machine Learning Support
Bright Computing, long a prominent provider of cluster management tools for HPC, today released version 8.0 of Bright Cluster Manager and Bright OpenStack. The release includes major and minor ...Full Article
NVMe Gaining Traction For Datacenter Storage
As flash based storage makes inroads in the datacenter, a growing list of IT infrastructure vendors are embracing networking technologies like Non-Volatile Memory Express, or NVMe, as a way ...Full Article
Intel: Management Change at Data Center Group; Xeon Re-architecting on Way
Diane Bryant, EVP and GM of Intel’s Data Center Group and a prominent industry figure (SC15 keynote speaker, e.g.), is taking an extended leave of absence from Intel “to ...Full Article
Cloud Data Manager Rubrik is Flush With Cash
Rubrik, the cloud data management startup and cash magnet, said this week it has completed its latest funding round, generating a hefty $180 million and raising its venture capital ...Full Article