
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
It is funny how companies can find money – lots of money – when they think IT infrastructure spending can save them money, make them money, or do both at the same time. …
Dell Tackles AI Infrastructure With Disaggregated Servers And Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Mike Henry was interim chief product officer at AI inference company Groq in 2023, a position that put him in close contact with a lot of datacenter administrators and managers. …
Parasail Brokers Between AI Compute Demand And Supply was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The way that Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang sees it, his company’s role in the ever-emerging quantum computing field is no different than that in other industries where AI and accelerated computing play roles. …
Nvidia Says It Will Be An Accelerator Of Quantum Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The injection of generative AI into the bloodstream of the tech titans and now businesses of all sizes and stripes over the past two years has forced IT vendors, from hardware makers to component providers to enterprise application developers, to quickly rework their roadmaps to address the particular demands of and opportunities presented by this emerging technology. …
Pure Storage FlashBlade//EXA Boosts AI Performance, Scalability was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In a panel discussion during GPU Technical Conference a few weeks ago, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang suggested to executives of several quantum computing companies that are calling their systems “computers” may be a misnomer and that a better tag might be “instruments.” …
D-Wave Pushes Back At Critics, Shows Off Aggressive Quantum Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you are going to be the full-stack, hardware-to-software-to-developer tools leader in the brave new world of AI, as Nvidia most certainly is, then you have to be able to adapt to the myriad environments that the emerging technology is threading itself through. …
Nvidia Turns Its AI Eye To The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In a scene from the movie Gladiator, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, worried about the fragility of his empire, tells his general, Maximus: “There was once a dream that was Rome. …
AWS Cat Qubits Make Quantum Error Correction Effective, Affordable was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As if you don’t have enough to do with the AI revolution, Microsoft says that 2025 is also the year that organizations need to begin getting ready for quantum computing. …
With Majorana, Microsoft Says Quantum Is Years, Not Decades, Away was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The quantum computing space is replete with big-name companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel touting incremental but important steps they’re taking to bring the long-promised technology to the fore. …
German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise last summer introduced the first of its Gen12 ProLiant systems, packed with Nvidia’s latest GPU accelerators and aimed squarely at the rapidly expanding AI space that in less than two years went from prompt-and-respond chatbots to AI agents that can reason, plan, and collaborate on their own. …
HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.