Cloud Transition Begets Cloud Waste
The more companies spend on cloud resources, the greater the likelihood those investments will be wasted on excess and therefore idle capacity along with the overprovisioning of infrastructure services, ...Full Article
2019 Data Center Drivers: Kubernetes, Cloud, ML, File System Storage
If 2019 is anything like the previous year, there will be a renewed push for modernization in the data center to alleviate the management complexity, handle the scalability requirements ...Full Article
The Deep500 – Tackling a Deep Learning Benchmark
How do you know if an HPC system, particularly a larger-scale system, is well-suited for deep learning workloads? Today, that’s not an easy question to answer because there's no ...Full Article
Intel at CES: New Inference, 5G Chips
Intel is showcasing a raft of new AI- and 5G-related products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, staging a launch event on the eve of ...Full Article
Patent Awards Slow, But Applications Rise
The broad category of data processing continued to generate the lion’s share of intellectual property claims in 2018, despite and overall decline in the number of U.S. patents last ...Full Article
Call to ARM: Huawei Claims Highest Performance ARM-based CPU
Momentum around ARM’s breakout into mainstream computing continued today as Huawei unveiled what the Chinese tech giant touted is the industry’s highest performing ARM-based CPU, targeting big data, distributed ...Full Article
Mellanox Hires New CFO Amid Microsoft Acquisition Rumors
Amid pre-holiday media speculation that Mellanox could be a Microsoft acquisition target, the networking powerhouse has announced that Doug Ahrens, formerly of GlobalLogic, has been named chief financial officer ...Full Article
Microsoft to Buy Mellanox?
Networking equipment powerhouse Mellanox could be an acquisition target by Microsoft, according to a published report in the Israeli financial publication TheMarker. Microsoft has reportedly gone so far as ...Full Article
Crystal Ball 2019: ‘AI Transformation Poised to Begin in Earnest’
Years ago, the future was much more opaque. Now, it’s tangible, visible, it’s rising up all around us. A favorite quote from 2018: “I don’t predict the future, I ...Full Article
AI Chip Startup Graphcore Rings Up $200M in Funding
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, has attracted more investors as it rolls out its intelligent processing unit to enterprise datacenters and cloud services providers. The GPU rival reported ...Full Article
