AI in HPC on Wall Street: Getting Going Is the Hard Part
IT managers in the financial services industry are fully aware that high performance data analytics, AI and deep learning technologies are plentiful and available, and they know that some ...Full Article
Intel Xpoint Storage Targets Datacenter
Intel Corp. has begun shipping new storage drives based on its 3-D XPoint non-volatile memory technology as it targets data-driven workloads. Intel's new Optane solid-state drives, designated P4800X, seek ...Full Article
Making Sense of When to Use FPGAs
While improvements in processors and software solutions have catalyzed major advances in high performance computing, the need for customizable performance is an ever-present challenge for organizations that rely on ...Full Article
Intel Buys Car Computer Vision Specialist Mobileye
Intel Corp. continued its foray into the autonomous vehicle sector this week with the acquisition of computer vision and machine-learning specialist Mobileye for about $15 billion in cash. Betting ...Full Article
Keys to a Successful Cloud Migration
No matter what study you look at, it’s clear that cloud adoption is growing rapidly – and increasingly workloads are being shifted from the data center to clouds. Key ...Full Article
Facebook Upgrades Servers With AI Training
Facebook unveiled new compute and storage servers this week along with custom training server platform as part of a server "refresh." Along with its Bryce Canyon storage server and ...Full Article
Is Second Generation the Charm for ARM?
A new front in the heretofore Intel-dominated battle to deliver processing power to the datacenter opened this week when Microsoft and Cavium Inc., the ARM server processor specialist, announced ...Full Article
Software Defined Storage: Changing Data from ‘State-ful’ to Stateless
Hedvig, the Santa Clara software defined storage (SDS) start-up now in its third year, has announced the infusion of a cool $21.5 million in Series C venture funding as ...Full Article
Icelandic Data Center Cuts Power Costs, Carbon Footprint for ThreatMetrix
One can envision Iceland – an island country so remote it makes you wonder at the navigational prowess of the 9th century mariners who settled there, a place of ...Full Article
New Tools Seek to Orchestrate Container Management
Several application container management tools were released this week with the goals of securing the software supply chain while improving orchestration of container clusters as the percentage of production ...Full Article