Author Archives: Paul Teich
Author Archives: Paul Teich
We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.
Best of breed and vertical integration are two opposing forces that have been part of the datacenter since mainframes first fired up six decades ago in a room with a glass windows in it so companies could show off their technical prowess and financial might. …
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part One was written by Paul Teich at The Next Platform.
The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. … “IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI”
IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI was written by Paul Teich at .
To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …
Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI was written by Paul Teich at .
We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star was written by Paul Teich at .
What if a hyperscale rack designer decided not to locally optimize legacy form factors for thermal management, but instead to start over and design a rack based on optimizing thermal efficiency? …
The Leading Edge Of Air-Cooled Servers Leads To The Edge was written by Paul Teich at .
Cloud giants Amazon, Alibaba, Baidu, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are now designing their own AI accelerator chips. …
Designing Custom Chips In-House For Specific Tasks Is The New Normal was written by Paul Teich at .