Microsoft Launches $40M AI for Health Initiative
Even as AI has become pervasive across many tech-heavy industries, the medical industry has moved with a characteristically slow pace, and functional AI implementation in healthcare remains relatively rare. ...Full Article
New Scheduling Tool Designed to Boost Microservices
Computer scientists at the University of Michigan have come up with a faster way to schedule cloud microservices via a new algorithm running on a custom processor. The platform, ...Full Article
NVMe, Single Tiering, Data Awareness and Other High Performance Storage Trends for 2020
High performance storage is changing as data (particularly unstructured data) volumes grow, data management becomes increasingly complex, diverse file types proliferate and AI/machine learning is more broadly adopted. According ...Full Article
AMD Reports Record Revenue but Lowered Forecast Hits Share Price
Wall Street’s ardor for Advanced Micro Devices cooled somewhat today as the company’s shares, the stock market's top performer the last two years, fell nearly 6 percent to $47.51 ...Full Article
Startup Applies Deep Learning to Secure Unstructured Data
The millions of documents in the form of product roadmaps, contracts and other components of corporate strategies also represent unstructured—and it turns out—vulnerable data stored in-house or in the ...Full Article
Culture, Underutilized Tools Hinder Cloud Deployments
Sufficient usage experience has emerged to better gauge how enterprise cloud deployments are faring and which tools are needed to leverage cloud agility to align developer operations to boost ...Full Article
IBM Launches Power Server for AI Inferencing, Data Management
IBM today launched a Power9-based inference server – the IC922 – that features up to six Nvidia T4 GPUs, PCIe Gen 4 and OpenCAPI connectivity, and can accommodate up ...Full Article
Amid Upbeat Earnings, Intel to Cut 1% of Employees, Add as Many
For all the sniping two tech old timers take, both IBM and Intel announced surprisingly upbeat earnings this week. IBM CEO Ginny Rometty was all smiles at this week’s ...Full Article
VMware Buys Network Analytics Vendor
VMware is acquiring network analytics startup Nyansa Inc., expanding its network and security tool chest to include a “self-healing” network capability. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ...Full Article
In Advanced Computing and HPC, Dell EMC Sets Sights on the Broader Market Middle
If the leading advanced computing/HPC server vendors were in the batting lineup of a baseball team, Dell EMC would be going for lots of singles and doubles – and ...Full Article
