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AWS Embraces FPGAs, ‘Elastic’ GPUs
A new instance type rolled out this week by Amazon Web Services is based on customizable field programmable gate arrays that promise to strike a balance between performance and ...Full Article
Exabytes Hit the Road with AWS Snowmobile
Big data, meet your big rig. Amazon Web Services took containerization technology to new levels yesterday when it unveiled plans to use 45-foot trailers equipped with scads of disk ...Full Article
Gartner: Virtualization, Slack Value Props put Server Sales in Funk
Citing conservative global spending, easy access to virtual machines and a need for reinvigorated vendor value propositions, industry watcher Gartner Group reported today that worldwide server revenues declined 5.8 ...Full Article
SUSE Acquires HPE’s OpenStack, Cloud Foundry Assets
Hewlett Packard Enterprise continued the selloff of its enterprise software assets this week in an expanded deal with open source specialist SUSE to acquire its OpenStack and Cloud Foundry ...Full Article
American Airlines Tabs IBM for 1st Public Cloud PCI-Compliant System
American Airlines has selected IBM Cloud as its public cloud services provider to develop, among other enterprise systems, what IBM said will be the industry’s first PCI-compliant ecommerce solution ...Full Article
Container Security and the Multi-cloud Control Plane: More than Just the Image
A cynic might conclude that “image” has more than a little to do with the phenomenal interest in containers and microservices right now. But just like the security required ...Full Article
HPE Announces Flash Price Buster Initiative; Demos “The Machine”
Coming in at less than half the price that it says public clouds charge for flash storage, HPE today announced a new initiative that delivers all-flash HPE 3PAR StoreServ ...Full Article
Disney and the Details: 400,000 Hairs on a Field Mouse
Creating the make-believe world of Disney Animation is no doubt the result of arduous work. Still, it’s harder than you might think, consuming Top500-class supercomputing resources that produce an ...Full Article
Intel Details AI Hardware Strategy for Post-GPU Age
Last week at SC16, Intel revealed its product roadmap for embedding its processors with key capabilities and attributes needed to take artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. It also ...Full Article
HPE-SGI to Tackle Exascale and Enterprise Targets
At first blush, and maybe second blush too, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) purchase of SGI seems like an unambiguous win-win. SGI’s advanced shared memory technology, its popular UV product ...Full Article
