Keeping Pace In A Fast-Moving AI Space

During the Intel AI Summit earlier this month where the company demonstrated its initial processors for artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, Naveen Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, spoke about the rapid pace of evolution in the AI space that also includes machine learning and deep learning. …

Keeping Pace In A Fast-Moving AI Space was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Putting On Demand Price Tags On Datacenter Gear

Traditional datacenter infrastructure suppliers have a complicated relationship with the cloud. …

Putting On Demand Price Tags On Datacenter Gear was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Attacking The Datacenter From The Edge Inward

For much of the decade, a debate around Arm was whether it would fulfill its promise to become a silicon designer with suppliers of any significance to datacenter hardware. …

Attacking The Datacenter From The Edge Inward was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Oracle Chases A Huge HPC Opportunity In The Cloud

A few years ago, about two dozen Oracle employees began work in downtown office space in Seattle to start mapping out how to make the enterprise software giant and occasional system maker a competitive player in a crowded public cloud space that is dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and also includes a host of other high-profile companies, from Google to Salesforce to IBM. …

Oracle Chases A Huge HPC Opportunity In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Nvidia Pushes AI Out To The Edge, Where 5G Is Waiting

The image of Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang pacing across the stage at a tech conference and talking about his company’s latest new markets for artificial intelligence, the latest partnerships with high-profile vendors, and looking into the near horizon for Nvidia’s next revenue stream has become a familiar one. …

Nvidia Pushes AI Out To The Edge, Where 5G Is Waiting was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Growing Up In An HPC World

After more than two decades with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Darren Cepulis came to Arm in 2013, becoming part of the small cadre of people working in the chip designer’s high-performance computing (HPC) business. …

Growing Up In An HPC World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Pushing Security From The Datacenter Out To The Edge

As readers of The Next Platform know, the edge – that area where the rapidly growing numbers of mobile, intelligent and connected devices live, running applications and generating mountains of data – is where a lot of the IT action is these days. …

Pushing Security From The Datacenter Out To The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

DDN Uses Acquisitions to Grow In The Enterprise

For more than two decades, DirectData Networks has focused on HPC storage, supplying large systems to enterprises and research institutions wrestling with complex and data-laden workloads and taking on such challenges as acquiring the Lustre File System from Intel in 2018. …

DDN Uses Acquisitions to Grow In The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

HPC Eases Its Way Into The Cloud

The ongoing journey to bring more enterprise high-performance computing (HPC) workloads into the cloud has been a bumpy one with its share of roadblocks and setbacks. …

HPC Eases Its Way Into The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

One Service Mesh To Tie Google Anthos Together

Public clouds bring a lot of advantages to enterprises, such as more flexibility and scalability for their many of their workloads, a way to avoid expensive capital costs by using someone else’s infrastructure and having someone else manage it all, and the ability to pay only for the resources they use. …

One Service Mesh To Tie Google Anthos Together was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Dell EMC’s PowerMax is Now All NVM-Express, Persistent Storage

When Dell EMC more than a year ago introduced the PowerMax storage array as the successor to the company’s all-flash VMAX offerings, the company touted the system’s readiness to leverage the NVM-Express (NVMe) protocol and, more importantly, its ability to serve as a gateway to NVMe-over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and storage-class memory (SCM), both of which would address the growing demand for better performance and latency. …

Dell EMC’s PowerMax is Now All NVM-Express, Persistent Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Accelerating AI With GPU Virtualization In The Cloud

In July, VMware acquired Bitfusion, a company whose technology virtualizes compute accelerators with the goal of enabling modern workloads like artificial intelligence and data analytics to take full advantage of systems with GPUs or with FPGAs. …

Accelerating AI With GPU Virtualization In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

HPE Takes VMware Cloud Users On Its Synergy Journey To Greenlake

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been aggressive in extending the tentacles of its GreenLake cloud-like IT consumption model since announcing the technology in mid-2018. …

HPE Takes VMware Cloud Users On Its Synergy Journey To Greenlake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds

More than a decade ago, VMware and its new server virtualization technology represented  significant threat to traditional OEMs like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) who were selling their boxes to enterprises that had to over-provision the systems they were bringing into make sure there was enough compute capacity to handle the biggest spikes in demand over the course of the year. …

VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

The View From On High On How To Beat Moore’s Law

The rapid changes underway in modern datacenters and HPC environment are demanding more compute power from a tech industry that is running into significant barriers to supplying that capacity. …

The View From On High On How To Beat Moore’s Law was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

With Rome, AMD Will Build Off Momentum For Naples Epyc Chips

AMD had been down this road before. In 2003, the chip maker launched the “SledgeHammer” Opteron, the first 64-bit X86 server processor with backward compatibility to its 32-bit predecessors that came at a time when much larger rival Intel was still pumping up Itanium as the next-generation architecture – and its only 64-bit option. …

With Rome, AMD Will Build Off Momentum For Naples Epyc Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Paving The Way For Two System Architecture Paths

The IT industry is all about evolution, building on what’s been done in the past to address the demands of the future. …

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Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications

Enterprises are putting a lot of time, money, and resources behind their nascent artificial intelligence efforts, banking on the fact that they can automate the way application leverage the massive amounts of customer and operational data they are keeping. …

Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

McLaren Builds Infrastructure And F1 Race Cars For Speed

For The McLaren Group, it’s all about speed.

Born in 1963 as a Formula 1 race car company, it initially was about speed on the track. …

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Data as a Service in a Hybrid, Multicloud World

As it was emerging, cloud computing was seen as a fairly straight-up proposition for enterprises of finding a cloud, putting applications and data into it and running and storing it all on someone else’s infrastructure. …

Data as a Service in a Hybrid, Multicloud World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .