Dell Extends VMware Cloud
Dell Technologies unveiled what amounts to a one-stop shop for cloud datacenter services built upon a VMware cloud running on hyperconverged Dell EMC infrastructure and aimed at edge computing ...Full Article
Alexa Gets a Filter
Amazon’s ubiquitous voice-controlled Alexa home assistant has been re-trained by researchers using Nvidia GPUs designed for AI training and inference. The overhaul resulted in what company and university researchers ...Full Article
In Wake of Nvidia-Mellanox: Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare
With echoes of Nvidia’s recent acquisition of Mellanox, FPGA co-leader (along with Intel) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Solarflare Communications, provider of high performance-low latency networks beloved ...Full Article
Arm, Docker Partner on Cloud-to-Edge Development
Arm has over the last 18 months been rolling out a steady stream of cloud-to-edge computing and Internet of Things platforms. The IP core vendor has now moved to forge ...Full Article
AIOps: Slaying the Dragon of IT Complexity
There’s a growing threat in the IT world – the widening gap between IT complexity/change and the human ability to manage it. The digital transformation of the enterprise data ...Full Article
Cloud Spending Grows Despite Unused Capacity
AI and machine learning workloads along with Internet of Things and edge computing initiatives are prompting companies to add workload processing capacity. Still, according to a new survey, that ...Full Article
Exponential: Today and Tomorrow’s Expansive AI-Big Data-HPC Landscape
Jay Boisseau, Dell EMC’s chief HPC technology strategist, delivered an incisive keynote address at Tabor Communications’ Advanced Scale Forum this week. He covers too much ground to summarize his ...Full Article
MIPS-Based Platform Targets AI App Developers
High-end computing platforms are emerging to support AI applications like inferencing and training so-called edge applications ranging from IoT networks to autonomous vehicles. The latest entry comes from Wave ...Full Article
Intel Buys FPGA Vision Specialist
Chip maker Intel has extended its reach into the FPGA arena with the acquisition of Omnitek, a U.K.-based developer of intellectual property cores used to combine FPGAs with AI ...Full Article
EU Promotes ‘Human-Centric’ AI
European regulators continue to take the lead on a range of critical technology policy issues spanning data privacy and, now, “trustworthy” AI. On the heels of its sweeping General ...Full Article