Cray Debuts ClusterStor E1000 for Converged AI-HPC Workloads
Cray, now owned by HPE, today introduced the ClusterStor E1000 storage platform, which leverages Cray software and mixes hard disk drives (HDD) and flash memory (SSD) to accommodate converged ...Full Article
Open Compute Switches Flood Datacenters
Datacenter operators increasingly turning to commodity hardware are embracing bare-metal provisioning of switching gear certified by the Open Compute Project, according to a quarterly market survey. IHS Markit reported ...Full Article
Amazon Pulls Plug on Oracle Databases
Amazon Web Services declared victory in its latest skirmish with cloud rival and database leader Oracle, announcing this week it has completed the migration of its consumer business to ...Full Article
Hot Demand for Hyperscale Data Centers Hampered by Skills Gap
Soaring demand for hyperscale data centers and colocation services is having a ripple effect within the value chain that builds and integrates those services, a new survey finds. As ...Full Article
IBM’s Post-Moore Vision: Bits Plus Neurons Plus Qubits
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks we’ll get there ...Full Article
AI Turns up the Heat in the Data Center
Sometimes, the laws of physics can be so annoying, and AI is a case in point. There is a theoretical, experimentally verified upper limit on how many computations can ...Full Article
Human Error Offsets Greater Datacenter Reliability
Despite the vastly improved reliability of datacenter gear and the rise of managed services to anticipate and limit consequences, an industry survey finds that datacenter outages remain common and ...Full Article
DARPA Targets Network Bottlenecks
DARPA will seek to unclog the networking bottlenecks that are hindering wider use of powerful hardware in computing-intensive applications. The Pentagon research agency has unveiled another in a series ...Full Article
Chiplet Effort Advances for Workload Acceleration
Chiplet-based designs, so called because they combine multiple components into a single package, are increasingly seen as addressing the inability of general-purpose CPUs to handle skyrocketing performance requirements. Lower-cost ...Full Article
Multi-Cloud Seen Driving Managed Services
The steady enterprise shift to hybrid and multi-cloud deployments brings with it added layers of complexity as adopters seek to salvage some legacy infrastructure while migrating critical workloads to ...Full Article
