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
Server Market Gets a Hefty COVID Boost
The global server market extended its rally into the first quarter of 2020 as the pandemic-prompted global lockdown boosted enterprise reliance on cloud services. Surging demand for hyperscale cloud ...Full Article
IBM Launches AIOps, 5G Network Edge, Financial Cloud Products at Digital Think
IBM issued several product announcements this morning to kick off the company’s annual Think conference (this year called Think Digital) that include automated IT infrastructure monitoring and diagnosis (i.e., ...Full Article
Intel Expands Mobileye, Nvidia Buys Cumulus Networks
Intel Corp. moved this week to expand its Mobileye unit with the acquisition of a transportation data startup while GPU leader Nvidia acquired network software specialist Cumulus Networks as ...Full Article
Red Hat Adds Tools for ‘Open Hybrid Cloud’
The rise of the Linux kernel nearly three decades ago and the open source operating system it begat has fundamentally changed the way enterprises operate, virtualizing IT infrastructure, ushering ...Full Article
‘Natural Language Understanding’ Appliance Targets the Email Deluge
“Eighty percent of customer service should go to the other 20 percent.” - Yogi Berra Like many things he said, Yogi never said that. But the statement gets ...Full Article
Micron Releases Open Source Storage Engine
Growing enterprise demand for object-based storage along with the proliferation of all-flash memory infrastructure has prompted one hardware vendor to release an open source version of its memory-class storage ...Full Article
OpenShift Emerges as Focus of IBM Cloud Plans
The basis of IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy revolves around its assertion that about 80 percent of enterprise workloads have yet to migrate to the cloud. First articulated by ex-CEO ...Full Article
Liqid’s Off-the-Shelf AI Supercomputer Takes on DGX-2
This article has been updated, with information added on April 24 to the original version. Composable infrastructure specialist Liqid has taken on Nvidia’s DGX-2, the 2 petaFLOPS superstar of ...Full Article
