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AI Career Notes: December 2020 Edition
In this monthly feature we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades: Shahar Bar-Or Infinidat, ...Full Article
DoD Spending Bill for 2021 Seeks to Create New National Cybersecurity Czar
Funding for the creation of a new national cybersecurity director post within the Executive Office of the President is a key part of the latest spending authorization bill for ...Full Article
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
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
Hyperion Research: COVID-19 Changing the Global 2020 HPC Market Landscape
SC20—Before the COVID-19 pandemic essentially stopped the world in its tracks in March, the global HPC server market was expected to grow from $13.7 billion in 2019 to $14.5 ...Full Article
Report: R&D Funding Will Help U.S. Retain AI Lead Over China
Reports of China’s advantages in AI development and data access have been greatly exaggerated, concludes a report advocating greater U.S. investment in basic research and a reassessment of how ...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
U.S. Looks to Smart Radio to Secure Data Networks
U.S. military and intelligence agencies are looking for ways to boost data security when communicating “in the wild.” Among the proposed approaches are emerging smart radio platforms that can ...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
