At SC17: Silicon, Systems and Science – the Good News and the Bad
We interviewed Karl Freund, lead analyst for deep learning and HPC at Moor Insights & Strategy, at SC17 in Denver to discuss the fertile crossover between AI and HPC ...Full Article
Cost, Security Issues Persist Amid Cloud Boom
The billowing cloud market that is growing at an estimated 40 percent annually is being driven to new heights by the enterprise embrace of multi-cloud strategies along with a ...Full Article
SC17 Takeaways: Machine Learning + HPC = ‘Synthesis Modeling’, and Other Developments
The annual supercomputing confab, SC17, was held last week in Denver, and there were many important announcements. Stories about science, silicon and systems all vied for attention and center ...Full Article
Turnaround Complete, HPE’s Whitman Departs
Having turned around the aircraft carrier the Silicon Valley icon had become, Meg Whitman is leaving the helm of a restructured Hewlett Packard. Her successor, technologist Antonio Neri will ...Full Article
AWS Adds ‘Secret’ Region to CIA Cloud
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services announced a new "secret region" this week designed to complete its portfolio of data classifications for U.S. government workloads. AWS said Monday (Nov. ...Full Article
Software-Defined Storage: Freedom Wrapped in Sheet Metal
A few months after we started Qumulo in 2012, VMware bought Nicira, a hot software- defined networking company, for $1.25 billion. As always, whenever a company without products in ...Full Article
AI, Machine Learning Among Top Cloud Workloads
More evidence is emerging of the inexorable shift of analytics and related workloads to the cloud, with adopters feeling more confident about hybrid infrastructure in their search for ways ...Full Article
GE, Apple Bringing Predix IIoT Apps to iPhones/iPads
The powerhouse team of Apple and General Electric are joining forces to offer predictive data and analytics industrial apps from Predix, GE’s IIoT platform, to Apple iPhones and iPads. ...Full Article
A Wary Look at AI from an IT Implementation Veteran
If the AI hype cycle were a dial setting on a washing machine, it would now be in the spin cycle phase. It’s intense. The talk and hopes for ...Full Article
