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Intel Reportedly in $6B Bid for Mellanox

January 30th, 2019 Comments Off on Intel Reportedly in $6B Bid for Mellanox
The latest rumors and reports around an acquisition of Mellanox focus on Intel, which has reportedly offered a $6 billion bid for the high performance interconnect company, according to Israeli publication Calcalist, a potential deal that industry analysts say ...

Data Center Sales Help AMD Buck Intel, Nvidia Stock Drops

January 28th, 2019 Comments Off on Data Center Sales Help AMD Buck Intel, Nvidia Stock Drops
Editor's note: this story was updated on January 29 to reflect AMD's earnings announcement. Insurgent chip maker Advanced Micro Devices defied the recent stock drops of rivals Intel and Nvidia with a year-end and quarterly earnings after-market announcement that ...

Hybrid Cloud File Storage: Bringing File Data into the AI Age

January 28th, 2019 Comments Off on Hybrid Cloud File Storage: Bringing File Data into the AI Age
Today, there are more vendors and solutions than ever for IT infrastructure buyers to choose from. Despite the confusion this causes, decision makers are certain of two things: In the next five years, their infrastructure will resemble a hybrid ...

Report: Intel to Build Massive 7nm Plant

January 23rd, 2019 Comments Off on Report: Intel to Build Massive 7nm Plant
Intel is gearing up for a large-scale factory expansion for production of its next-generation 7nm chip, according to published reports, which state that the multi-billion-dollar construction project could begin by early summer. A story in The Oregonian cites unnamed ...

IBM Posts Positive Earnings; ‘Strategic Imperatives’ Above 50% of Business

January 23rd, 2019 Comments Off on IBM Posts Positive Earnings; ‘Strategic Imperatives’ Above 50% of Business
For IBM watchers at the advanced scale/HPC/open source/cloud/AI-related end of the technology industry, Big Blue’s release late yesterday of Q4 and 2018 earnings painted a positive picture around the company’s “strategic imperatives,” including IBM Cloud, POWER9 and its AI-related ...

Data Science in a Box: Tools Attack Critical Skills Shortage

January 22nd, 2019 Comments Off on Data Science in a Box: Tools Attack Critical Skills Shortage
Begging forgiveness for the expression of antiquated gender attitudes, we share a passage from Pride & Prejudice (1813): “….no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have ...

The Surge in Oil & Gas Supercomputing

January 21st, 2019 Comments Off on The Surge in Oil & Gas Supercomputing
Supercomputing isn’t new in the world of oil and gas (O&G). It’s been a valuable tool for exploration, refining and processing for decades. But in recent years, the need to explore unconventional reservoirs, which requires advanced compute capabilities, have ...

GDPR Mandates: Dark Data, ‘Leaver Data,’ Integrated Archiving

January 17th, 2019 Comments Off on GDPR Mandates: Dark Data, ‘Leaver Data,’ Integrated Archiving
GDPR compliance requires ongoing data management of customer data, and if your organization hasn’t been fully attentive to this matter, consider these five best practices for data migration, data management and long-term data retention: 1: Integrated Archiving and Backup ...

Intel Bets Big on 2-Track Quantum Strategy

January 15th, 2019 Comments Off on Intel Bets Big on 2-Track Quantum Strategy
Quantum computing has lived so long in the future it’s taken on a futuristic life of its own, with a Gartner-style hype cycle that includes triggers of innovation, inflated expectations and – though a useful quantum system is still ...

2019 Data Center Drivers: Kubernetes, Cloud, ML, File System Storage

January 10th, 2019 Comments Off on 2019 Data Center Drivers: Kubernetes, Cloud, ML, File System Storage
If 2019 is anything like the previous year, there will be a renewed push for modernization in the data center to alleviate the management complexity, handle the scalability requirements and achieve an improved ROI. We will see storage systems ...
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