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
The State of Cybersecurity: Be More Afraid
Looming behind the excitement at SC16 around new digital enterprise strategies is the growing menace of cyber-attacks. But in spite of these worries, the state of cybersecurity readiness at ...Full Article
Four Must-Knows Before Adopting Cloud Technology
The cloud is the future of enterprise IT. According to a study by Rightscale, 88 percent of enterprise organizations are using public cloud and 63 percent are using private ...Full Article
IDC at SC16: AI, HPDA Driving HPC into High Growth Markets
The rapid growth in technology that can be trained, that infers, that continually learns from information contained in enormous data sets, all the while generating strong ROI on strategic ...Full Article
AI a Hot Topic on SC16 Agenda
The rapid emergence AI and machine learning within the HPC and advance scale computing industries looks to be a dominant topic – from vendor product announcements to analyst market ...Full Article
EU Launches Low-Power Chip Effort
The European Union is expanding its efforts to promote energy-efficient computing with funding for hardware research aimed at next-generation high-end processors. "The European Commission wants Europe to avail ...Full Article
IoT Reality Check Projects ‘Trough of Disillusionment’
In an attempt to rise above the hype and examine the hard economic and technical data about the Internet of Things (IoT), a new study released by a venture ...Full Article
SAP HANA 2 Stresses Micro-Services, Analytics
The second generation of SAP's HANA platform jumps on the micro-services bandwagon by emphasizing upgrades to the in-memory platform that speed development and deployment of distributed applications while adding ...Full Article
Binding Customers to Chains: 150M Restaurant Patrons in a Hadoop Fishbowl
Chain restaurants have a paradoxical mission: grow a mass customer base, but do so based on one successful customer experience at a time. Big data, analytics, interactive customer relationship ...Full Article
Qualcomm to Acquire NXP for “Connected World” Markets
In the largest deal in the history of the chip industry, wireless industry giant Qualcomm will acquire semiconductor maker NXP Semiconductors in a deal valued at $47B, according to ...Full Article
