At SC18: IBM’s AI-HPC Combines for Intelligent Simulation, Cognitive Discovery
A powerhouse concept in attaining new knowledge is the notion of the “emergent property,” the combination of formerly stovepiped scientific disciplines and exploratory methods to form cross-disciplinary intelligence that ...Full Article
Oracle Acquires SD-WAN Specialist Talari
Oracle has moved to add bandwidth and security to its cloud portfolio with the acquisition of Talari Networks, a software-defined networking specialist. Terms of the acquisition announced on Thursday ...Full Article
Salesforce Invests in Docker, which Partners with MuleSoft
In a bid to link legacy but critical applications with agile microservices, cloud software giant Salesforce is taking a stake in application container pioneer Docker, which will collaborate with ...Full Article
Container Adoption Spurs Cloud Usage Across Asia
Cloud usage is surging in Asia, led by the adoption of cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes across the region but particularly in the booming Chinese technology sector, a new ...Full Article
How to Balance the Multimodal IT Mix
As organizations around the world transform their enterprise systems to embrace modern and agile technologies, multiple infrastructures for different workloads and applications are needed. Enter multimodal IT, a co-existence ...Full Article
New Panasas High Performance Storage Straddles Commercial-Traditional HPC
High performance storage vendor Panasas has launched a new version of its ActiveStor product line this morning featuring what the company said is the industry’s first plug-and-play, portable parallel ...Full Article
Private Equity Firms Buys Cloud Vendor Apptio
Hybrid IT specialist Apptio, which went public in 2016, is being taken private by Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that has been snapping up enterprise IT vendors. ...Full Article
AI Partnerships for Driverless Cars Gear Up
AI investments and deployment for driverless vehicles are speeding up, with another auto manufacturer partnering with a computer vision startup and an autonomous vehicle specialist deploying Nvidia’s Xavier platform. ...Full Article
VMware Buys Kubernetes Startup Heptio
There has been much talk with the rise of application containers about the microservices technology replacing virtual machines. VMware made a move this week that may make that a ...Full Article
Needed: A Data Protection AI Ecosystem
The likelihood of a job being automated can be understood by asking the 4Ds; is the job dull, dangerous, dirty or dear? Not sure about dirty or dangerous but ...Full Article