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Google’s New AI-Focused ‘A3’ Supercomputer Has 26,000 GPUs
Cloud providers are building armies of GPUs to provide more AI firepower. At its annual Google I/O developer conference today, Google announced an AI supercomputer with 26,000 GPUs. The ...Full Article
Taos, an IBM Company, Positioned by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 11, 2021 -- Taos, the global innovator in Cloud and DevOps transformation services, today announced it has been named in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant ...Full Article
Graphcore IPU Gets a Public Cloud Boost
Graphcore, the U.K. AI chip developer, is expanding its roster of cloud partners to include Cirrascale Cloud Partners, a deep learning infrastructure specialist. The result of the collaboration is ...Full Article
Nvidia Moves Its Software Closer to Cloud Customers Through an AWS Storefront
Nvidia is making it easier for AWS cloud customers to find and integrate Nvidia software applications into their AI and deep learning projects through an all-new, all-in-one “storefront” in ...Full Article
Blockchain Network Filecoin Looks to Disrupt Cloud Storage
A blockchain-based effort expected to be launched next month is intended to do nothing less than decentralize and disrupt the highly-concentrated cloud storage market. The Filecoin Network is promoted ...Full Article
Cloud Doubts Mean Datacenters Aren’t Going Away
The death of the enterprise datacenter has been greatly exaggerated, an annual survey finds, adding that on-premises infrastructure is “neither dead nor dying” despite a migration of some critical ...Full Article
IBM, Oracle Unveil Multi-Cloud Deployment Options
Public cloud contenders hustling to keep pace with market leaders continue to differentiate their offerings with the rollout of new services spanning hybrid cloud deployments to network orchestration schemes. ...Full Article
COVID Hurts Overall IT Spending, Cloud Benefits
The pandemic was expected to slow global IT spending. The only questions being by how much and for how long. Hard numbers for the beginning of this year are ...Full Article
Google Restructures, Seeking Bigger Slice of Enterprise Cloud Pie
Google Cloud’s focus on larger enterprise customers has resulted in a restructuring that will cut jobs in its cloud operations as it seeks to attract more large corporate customers ...Full Article
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