NVMe, Single Tiering, Data Awareness and Other High Performance Storage Trends for 2020
High performance storage is changing as data (particularly unstructured data) volumes grow, data management becomes increasingly complex, diverse file types proliferate and AI/machine learning is more broadly adopted. According ...Full Article
Four Principles for Building a Culture of Automation
It’s estimated that 75 percent of an IT professional’s time is spent “keeping the lights on” with the remaining 25 percent focused on innovation that moves their businesses forward. ...Full Article
Rometty Out, Krishna and Red Hat’s Whitehurst In at IBM
IBM announced this afternoon that Ginni Rometty, president and CEO of the company since January 2012, has been replaced as CEO by Arvind Krishna, IBM SVP for cloud and ...Full Article
AMD Reports Record Revenue but Lowered Forecast Hits Share Price
Wall Street’s ardor for Advanced Micro Devices cooled somewhat today as the company’s shares, the stock market's top performer the last two years, fell nearly 6 percent to $47.51 ...Full Article
AI Chip Market is Booming
AI processors are reinvigorating the global semiconductor industry, prompting at least one market tracker to predict a three-fold increase in AI chip applications over the next five years. In ...Full Article
IBM Launches Power Server for AI Inferencing, Data Management
IBM today launched a Power9-based inference server – the IC922 – that features up to six Nvidia T4 GPUs, PCIe Gen 4 and OpenCAPI connectivity, and can accommodate up ...Full Article
Is AI a Sprint or a Marathon? Development ‘Sprints’ Get Companies to the Starting Line Fast
AI is a complex process that typically takes years to do right, requiring a huge investment in time, resources and money. At costs that can average upwards of $500K ...Full Article
Amid Upbeat Earnings, Intel to Cut 1% of Employees, Add as Many
For all the sniping two tech old timers take, both IBM and Intel announced surprisingly upbeat earnings this week. IBM CEO Ginny Rometty was all smiles at this week’s ...Full Article
In Advanced Computing and HPC, Dell EMC Sets Sights on the Broader Market Middle
If the leading advanced computing/HPC server vendors were in the batting lineup of a baseball team, Dell EMC would be going for lots of singles and doubles – and ...Full Article
MIT Says Its Forecasting Model Outperforms Wall Street Benchmark
Accurately predicting a business's performance is a prized skill among investors, competitors and other market analysts. Now, MIT is highlighting a new model that challenges the typical blend of ...Full Article