IBM Opens Up with Multi-Cloud Manager, AI Tools
With upwards of 85 percent of companies using more than one cloud provider, the shift to multi-cloud deployments driven by emerging open-source platforms has prompted infrastructure vendors to begin ...Full Article
Massive, ‘Geophysically Configured’ Oil & Gas Supercomputer Coming On Line in Houston
Based on some news stories in circulation, one might get the impression that the next system to take No. 1 on the Top500 list could be an industrial oil ...Full Article
Google Drops Bid, IBM Protests DoD Cloud Contract
The jockeying over a massive U.S. military cloud contract reached a fever pitch this week as one prominent contender dropped out while another filed a legal protest aimed at ...Full Article
Nvidia, Oracle Expand Cloud GPU Ties for AI, HPC
Oracle is collaborating with Nvidia to bring the GPU leader’s unified AI and HPC platform to the public cloud for accelerating analytics and machine learning workloads. The move makes ...Full Article
Six Reasons for Multi-Cloud Computing
There is little debate that cloud is the future of computing. According to IDC, almost half of IT spending will be cloud-based in 2018 and will reach as much ...Full Article
App Developer Netlify Looks Beyond Web Servers
The enterprise shift away from web server applications towards APIs and microservices is spawning new platforms where web applications are developed on networks rather than servers requiring more management ...Full Article
Bloomberg: Supermicro Motherboards Bugged by Operatives in China
Roiling the tech industry and intelligence community, a news story on the Bloomberg BusinessWeek site reports that spies in China hacked Super Micro Computer servers widely distributed throughout the ...Full Article
AI, Blockchain Hype Hasn’t Translated into Investments
All the talk and hype surrounding AI, machine learning and blockchain technologies has so far failed to translate into actual spending on new IT initiatives, concludes a new industry ...Full Article
Xilinx Claims FPGA vs. GPU Lead, Unveils Adaptive Acceleration Platform
Xilinx, the outspoken champion of FPGA technology, is having an active Open Compute Project Summit this week in Amsterdam. The company has drawn battle lines with that other major ...Full Article
Palo Alto Networks Acquires Cloud Securer RedLock
As more enterprise workloads migrate to the cloud, companies are looking for better ways to secure mission-critical data and applications as part of their hybrid cloud strategies. With that ...Full Article