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
HPC4Mfg Advances State-of-the-Art for American Manufacturing
Last Friday (March 3, 2017), the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program held an industry engagement day workshop in San Diego, bringing together members of the US manufacturing ...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
IDC’s HPC Group Spun out to Temporary Trusteeship
The immediate fate of the HPC research group within International Data Corp. (IDC) became known yesterday with comments from (now former) IDC Program Vice President, HPC, Earl Joseph, who ...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
More Bad News for Gamblers – AI Wins…Again
AI-based poker playing programs have been upping the ante for lowly humans. Notably, several algorithms from Carnegie Mellon University (e.g. Libratus, Claudico, and Baby Tartanian8) have performed well. Writing ...Full Article
Overcoming Security Challenges in the Hybrid Cloud
Businesses are embracing the flexibility and scalability of hybrid cloud computing, where the public cloud and ancillary dedicated infrastructure converge. IDC predicts that by next year, 80 percent of ...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
Multi-Cloud Rivals See Opening in AWS Crash
Cloud rivals pounced this week in response to a major outage at Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage service, arguing that the high-profile crash underscores the need for enterprises ...Full Article
IoT Adoption Gaining Traction Despite Widespread Breach Vulnerability
IoT in 2017 is a hodgepodge of contradictions. Adoption of IoT is at once more widespread and more vulnerable than might be thought. Companies report greater IoT benefit than ...Full Article
