HPE No. 1, IBM Surges, in ‘Bucking Bronco’ High Performance Server Market
Riding healthy U.S. and global growth, strong demand for AI-capable hardware and other economic tailwinds, the high performance computing server market jumped 28 percent in the second quarter to ...Full Article
HPC and AI at the Forefront of Finance
You’ve heard this one before: HPC has the potential to transcend science and engineering to transform commercial applications in the enterprise. Won’t it be grand when HPC is no ...Full Article
In Challenge to Intel, AMD Eyes Server Upgrades
AMD is zeroing in on datacenter overhauls as a means of chipping away at rival Intel Corp.’s x86 dominance of the enterprise IT infrastructure market. Some market analysts are ...Full Article
Nvidia Accelerates AI Inference in the Datacenter
Nvidia is bringing AI inference to the datacenter with a new platform consisting of an inference accelerator chip--the new Turing-based T4 GPU--and a refresh of its inference server software ...Full Article
Hybrid Infrastructure Gets Composable
Growing demand for distributed applications delivered by micro- and other agile services are fueling the shift to composable and disaggregated infrastructure as enterprises look for new ways to provision ...Full Article
The New Fabrics and Mix-and-Match Systems: The Next Big Thing in Data Center Servers?
If you’ve wondered about the new fabric efforts undertaken by the Gen-Z, OpenCAPI and CCIX consortia – if you’ve wondered what it all means – here's a way to ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Nearing Green Energy Goal
Hyperscale datacenter operators continue to strive for energy efficiency as most struggle to keep pace with more demanding workloads. Progress is being reported on at least one front: Facebook ...Full Article
The Adaptive FPGA Platform that Might Carry AI – and Everything Else – Forward
Change is a constant, the pace of change accelerates, adapt to change or wither.... Right, sorry, these are givens. But still, these days, it bears repeating because creative destruction ...Full Article
VMware Buys Cloud Manager, Partners With AWS
VMware said it will acquire CloudHealth Technologies, a provider of tools for managing cloud costs and resources. Separately, VMware announced during a company event this week in Las Vegas ...Full Article
Pure Storage Acquires Cloud Backup Startup
Pure Storage has boosted its ability to manage big data migrating to the cloud with the acquisition of privately-held StorReduce. Terms of the acquisition, which closed earlier this month, ...Full Article
