Nvidia Launches Volta-based Quadro GPU with RTX for Real-Time Ray Tracing
At a new product extravaganza this morning during its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled the new Volta-based Quadro GV100 with RTX technology, positioning the pairing as ...Full Article
Metadata is the New Data: The Power of Metadata Visualization
Organizing data is a challenge. The digital universe, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), doubles every two years. Based on current projections, it’s expected to reach 44 trillion gigabytes ...Full Article
Predictive Analytics and Human Trafficking: ‘We Will Never Rescue Our Way out of this Crime’
In the annals of venality, human trafficking has metastasized into one of the most horrific organized crimes against humanity since the Holocaust. It’s estimated that 40 million people, 80 ...Full Article
HPC Cloud Provider Nimbix Launches IBM Power9 Targeting AI
HPC cloud specialist Nimbix this week announced the addition of IBM’s Power9 technology to the Nimbix cloud starting with an early access “gated program” available now to be followed ...Full Article
Fake Artificial Intelligence vs. the Real Thing – How to Tell the Difference
When ‘Willy the Wonder-Chicken’ defeated famed behavior psychologist B.F. Skinner at Tic-Tac-Toe in 19791, who would’ve imagined tomorrow’s McNugget would become a foot soldier in the battle between artificial ...Full Article
Digital Transformation: Strategic Imperative or Overrated?
It turns out the transition to zeroes and ones—the vaunted “digital transformation” many companies seek—isn’t going as smoothly as many vendors would have them think. Like most organizational changes, ...Full Article
HPE Unleashes AI, Deep Learning Platforms
HPE today announced the latest rev of its HPE Apollo 6500 platform, Gen10, along with a spate of new AI-oriented offerings designed to help customers optimize and scale up ...Full Article
Power9 and the ‘D Word’: IBM Touts OpenPOWER Ecosystem, Announces New Customers, Products for AI and Hyperscale Datacenters
At SC17 in Denver four months ago, Ken King, GM, OpenPOWER, IBM Systems Group, told a somewhat jaundiced trio of journalists that 2018 would, finally, after several years of ...Full Article
When Buying HCI, Avoid These 3 Mistakes
The interest in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances is widespread, replacing, and in some sense displacing, the hype around all-flash arrays as “the” hot topic in previous years. Organizations are ...Full Article
Quantum Computing vs. Our ‘Caveman Newtonian Brain’: Why Quantum Is So Hard
Quantum is coming. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon enough*. Within 10 to 12 years, we’re told, special-purpose quantum systems (see related story: Hyperion on the Emergence ...Full Article
