Microsoft ‘All In’ For Open Source with GitHub Deal
GitHub, the well-heeled and vibrant project collaboration platform for programmers, is being acquired by Microsoft as the software giant seeks to push deeper into enterprise software development. Microsoft said ...Full Article
Cyber Insurance, Security and the Enterprise Challenge
In the evolving world of cybersecurity, enterprises need access to cyber insurance that accurately reflects their current security posture and that covers both direct and indirect expenses. The same ...Full Article
Nvidia Unifies AI, HPC Workloads in Datacenters
Nvidia’s latest cloud server platform is intended as a “building block,” in the reference design sense, to support AI training and inference along with HPC workloads such as simulations. ...Full Article
App Containers Begin to Scale
Real-world assessments about the adoption of Docker application containers in production are surfacing as users deploy the technology to boost utilization of datacenter resources and accelerate delivery of a ...Full Article
Cloud Uncertainty Fuels Hybrid Approach
Unexpectedly high transition costs and a lack of transparency into cloud resource usage have tempered enthusiasm about cloud transitions, prompting organizations to continue investing in on-premises infrastructure while hedging ...Full Article
Intel, Micron Up the Ante for Flash Memory
Chip makers continue to gear designs toward AI and other demanding cloud workloads that take advantage of datacenter flash storage capacity. To that end, memory specialist Micron Technology Inc. ...Full Article
Google Adds TPUs to ML Engine, Updates Kubernetes
As the amount of machine learning training data soars, so too does demand for new tools that will accelerate the process. With that in mind, Google Cloud announced the ...Full Article
Public vs. Private Blockchains – Which One’s Right for You?
While blockchain is currently one of the most trumpeted technologies, some dismiss it as a fad related to cryptocurrency. The reality, however, is that companies across industries are looking ...Full Article
Intel Extends Support for IoT Vision Edge Apps
In the IoT era unfolding before us, the next frontier is vision applications, applying ML and DL techniques for real-time/near-time analytics of video data from cameras at the edge. ...Full Article
DoD Insists on Single JEDI Cloud Provider
The Defense Department is sticking to its guns on a plan to award a single, huge contract for cloud computing that would support U.S. military operations. In a report ...Full Article