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AWS, Microsoft are Final JEDI Competitors
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will compete for a massive Defense Department cloud contract after a Pentagon probe dismissed protesters’ conflict-of-interest allegations. The decision first reported by Bloomberg effectively eliminates ...Full Article
AI and Enterprise Data Centers Boost HPC Server Revenues Past Expectations – Hyperion
Building on the big year of 2017 and spurred in part by the convergence of AI and HPC, global revenue for high performance servers jumped 15.6 percent last year, ...Full Article
CIA Said to Prep Multi-Cloud Initiative
A new spy cloud has emerged from the shadows. The CIA is reportedly leading a multibillion procurement effort on behalf of 17 U.S. intelligence agencies dubbed IC Commercial Cloud ...Full Article
Cloud Giants Launch Kubernetes Hub
The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to expand with the formation of a “operators’ hub” that serves as a public registry for finding Kubernetes-native services. OperatorHub.io was launched this week by Red ...Full Article
Google Shifts Kubernetes Focus to Datacenters
Google has released a beta version of its cloud platform the incorporates Kubernetes to help build and manage services in hybrid deployments with a particular emphasis on in-house services. ...Full Article
What Will IBM’s AI Debater Learn from Its Loss?
The utility of IBM’s latest man-versus-machine gambit is debatable. At the very least its Project Debater got us thinking about the potential uses of artificial intelligence as a way of ...Full Article
High-performance Spark: Improving on big data’s swiss army knife to enable AI Provided by IBM
In their widely followed 2017 Hype Cycle for Data Management, Gartner’s declaration that Hadoop was “obsolete before plateau” marked a fascinating milestone in the evolution of big data. Big ...Full Article
Power Couple: IBM Joins PowerAI Hardware with Watson; Launches Multi-Hybrid AI Services
As IBM kicked off its annual Think conference, a high-production extravaganza this week in San Francisco, the company this morning made a series of AI-related announcements, including the merging ...Full Article
IBM Bets $2B Seeking 1000X AI Hardware Performance Boost
For now, AI systems are mostly machine learning-based and “narrow” – powerful as they are by today's standards, they're limited to performing a few, narrowly-defined tasks. AI of the ...Full Article
Azure Gains in Multi-Cloud Shift, But Complexity Grows
Microsoft Azure is benefitting most from the growing adoption of multiple cloud vendors, according to recent surveys of enterprise cloud managers. Perhaps the most revealing is an Amazon Web ...Full Article
