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The Coming Age Of The Internet Of Agents
Almost a year ago, executives, researchers, and developers within the Outshift group of Cisco Systems – an incubation unit focused on such advanced technologies as AI and quantum computing – began batting about the idea of a network infrastructure connecting vast numbers of AI agents from multiple vendors or organizations, allowing those AI agents to automatically communicate, work together, and solve complex problems for enterprises. …
The Coming Age Of The Internet Of Agents was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions
AI agents are the latest evolution in the relatively short life span of generative AI, and while some organizations are still trying to figure out how the emerging technology fits in their operations, others are making strides into agentic AI. …
Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine
Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …
Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission
IT companies have spent billions of dollars creating ways to move data more efficiently and cheaply in an increasingly distributed world of on-premises datacenters, multiple clouds, and the edge. …
A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer
For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. …
Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line
The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. …
GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip
There is no shortage of top-name – and even lesser known – companies pursuing the white whale of developing a quantum computer that can run workloads and solve problems that today’s most powerful classical computers simply can’t. …
Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor
When Fidelma Russo looks at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake, she sees a rapidly expanding platform that like others is trying to keep pace not only with the growing demands of organizations that are continuing to adopt the cloud but also are looking for ways to bring in and deploy emerging AI technologies. …
HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
How Convenient: Every Country Needs AI Sovereignty
If you want to sell a lot of hardware to support AI workloads, then the best way to do that is to convince every country on Earth that AI is so important that they must have a lot of it within their borders. …
How Convenient: Every Country Needs AI Sovereignty was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cisco Puts Big AI Infrastructure Into Small Packages
Generative AI is still very much an emerging technology and it’s morphing and evolving rapidly, as is illustrated with the trend toward agentic AI, which we’ve written about previously. …
Cisco Puts Big AI Infrastructure Into Small Packages was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AI Makes Liquid Cooling Normal – And Necessary – Again
All trends with AI point up and to the right, and usually pretty sharply. …
AI Makes Liquid Cooling Normal – And Necessary – Again was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Startup FlexAI Wants To Make AI Compute Accessible to All
Brijesh Tripathi’s early career took him on a path that wound through Nvidia to Apple to Tesla to Zoox – an autonomous driving company now a subsidiary of Amazon. …
Startup FlexAI Wants To Make AI Compute Accessible to All was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Accenture Melds Smarts And Wares With Nvidia For Agentic AI Push
Over the past two years, enterprises have tried to keep up with the staggering pace of the innovation with generative AI, mapping out ways to implement the emerging technology into their operations in hopes of saving time and money, increasing productivity, improving customer service and support, and driving efficiencies. …
Accenture Melds Smarts And Wares With Nvidia For Agentic AI Push was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Oracle Puts AI, Automation Between Its Cloud And the Bad Guys
Despite a slow start several years ago, Oracle has refashioned itself into a cloud builder, rapidly expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to make it among the top second-tier providers, although still well behind the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Oracle Puts AI, Automation Between Its Cloud And the Bad Guys was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds
It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. …
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9
We all had been wondering what VMware would look like when it became part of Broadcom’s massive universe following the semiconductor giant’s $69 billion acquisition of the virtualization juggernaut. …
VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9 was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI
Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …
Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms
Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. …
When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack
Rackspace Technology has admittedly been relatively quiet in recent years when it’s come to OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform that was born in 2010 out of the collaboration between the cloud computing company and NASA. …
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy
For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …
For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.