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Data Center Space Grows, Data Center Numbers Decline. Why?

July 17th, 2017 Comments Off on Data Center Space Grows, Data Center Numbers Decline. Why?
The number of data centers has been increasing since 2009, yet this is all about to change. Experts predict that after peaking at roughly 8.6 million data centers in 2017, that number will begin to decline. The driving factor ...

Quantum Computing in the Enterprise: Not So Wild a Dream

July 16th, 2017 Comments Off on Quantum Computing in the Enterprise: Not So Wild a Dream
This publication examines the migration of HPC technologies from the specialized realms of supercomputing to business-ready solutions for compute- and data-intensive business problems. As such, we don't frequently cover quantum computing. It resides in the nether regions of theoretical ...

Intel Skylake: Xeon Goes from Chip to Platform

July 13th, 2017 Comments Off on Intel Skylake: Xeon Goes from Chip to Platform
With yesterday’s New York unveiling of the new “Skylake” Xeon Scalable processors, Intel made multiple runs at multiple competitive threats and strategic markets. Skylake will carry Intel's flag in the fight for leadership in the emerging advanced data center ...

The New World of Healthcare Digital Transformation

July 12th, 2017 Comments Off on The New World of Healthcare Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is having a profound impact on our society. According to IDC, the economic value of digital transformation is already more than 20 percent of global GDP. And while we’ll certainly feel the impact of changes to many ...

Deep Neural Networks: When, and When Not, to Use

July 10th, 2017 Comments Off on Deep Neural Networks: When, and When Not, to Use
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been with us for well over half a century, but confusion still exists regarding what it is and where it is best applied. This is especially true for the latest AI incarnation: “deep learning.” Overall, ...

Datacenter Virtualization at Citigroup: DCIM Graphical Overlay

July 7th, 2017 Comments Off on Datacenter Virtualization at Citigroup: DCIM Graphical Overlay
Datacenters have become so large, complex, costly and strategically important that throughout the enterprise there is a broad ecosystem of datacenter stakeholders – so broad that their priorities can often be in direct contradiction. For datacenter planners and managers, ...

400Gb Open Ethernet Switch from Mellanox

July 6th, 2017 Comments Off on 400Gb Open Ethernet Switch from Mellanox
Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX) today announced Spectrum-2, billed by the interconnect company as the most scalable 200 and 400GB/second Open Ethernet switch, offering 10X scalability while reducing datacenter OPEX via 1.3 times better power efficiency. Spectrum-2 provides Ethernet connectivity for ...

Intersect360 Survey Shows Continued InfiniBand Dominance

July 5th, 2017 Comments Off on Intersect360 Survey Shows Continued InfiniBand Dominance
There were few surprises in Intersect360 Research’s just released report on interconnect use in advanced scale computing. InfiniBand and Ethernet remain the dominant protocols across all segments (system, storage, LAN) and Mellanox and Cisco lead the supplier pack. The ...

Nvidia, Baidu Expand AI Partnership

July 5th, 2017 Comments Off on Nvidia, Baidu Expand AI Partnership
Today at its developer conference in Beijing, Baidu announced a broadening of its AI partnership with Nvidia, including plans to bring Nvidia’s recently announced 120 TFLOPS Volta GPUs to Baidu Cloud and adoption of Nvidia’s DRIVE PX platform for ...

The State of IoT Security: Not Good

June 30th, 2017 Comments Off on The State of IoT Security: Not Good
IOT security today is very much in its infancy. Yet IOT is growing at an explosive rate. Research firm Statista, one of the leading statistics companies on the internet, projects the number of internet connected devices to grow from ...
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