OpenPOWER Shows Strength at First European Summit
In a show of strength in Europe before heading to SC16 next month, IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation today unveiled several new European initiatives and European-developed solutions at the ...Full Article
Targeting Open-Source Security Bugs
Seeking to spot potential security vulnerabilities in systems that increasingly rely on open source software, software license optimization vendor Flexera Software has acquired a specialist in identifying potentially vulnerable ...Full Article
Passing Go: Augmented Intelligence and the Improvement, Not Replacement, of Us
Recently I had an interesting exchange about the rise of artificial intelligence and its implications. The discussion was centered around Google's AI-fueled AlphaGo program, which trounced Lee Sedol, the ...Full Article
Cloud Investments & the Future of Cloud Computing
The cloud industry is evolving – a point that is made abundantly clear by the scope of industry investments being made today. In the early days of cloud, investments ...Full Article
How P&G Got Hooked on Analytics: ‘High Value Problems People Were Willing to Pay For’
Procter & Gamble, the $76 billion consumer packaged goods giant with sales to 5 billion consumers in 180 countries, has lots of data. Four years ago, as the company ...Full Article
Early Blockchain Adopters Kicking Tires
While skeptics question how long it will take for emerging blockchain technology to make a dent in the financial technology market, high-profile backers of the decentralized secure transaction platform ...Full Article
IDC: Searching for Dark Energy in the HPC Universe
Editor’s Note: In this guest commentary, Bob Sorensen, research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group, argues that high performance computing is undergoing basic changes in how we should ...Full Article
Dell EMC Launches At-Scale All-Flash, Object Storage Products
The new Dell EMC combination put itself on display this week at Dell EMC World in Austin, and made two announcements that flex the company’s storage muscles: an all-flash ...Full Article
The Hybrid Network: Monitoring and Management Beyond Your Own Four Walls
More organizations are migrating applications to the cloud, along with more basic infrastructure, such as storage and application development platforms. A recent survey of IT professionals found that 92 ...Full Article
PGS Adds Second Cray Super to Houston Mega Center
“We’re gonna need a bigger supercomputer” is what Norwegian oil and gas company Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) must have said to Cray ahead of working with the iconic supercomputer maker to ...Full Article