Kubernetes Gets a Traffic Manager
The Kubernetes ecosystem continues to expand with the adoption of a traffic manager for easing access to the orchestrator’s application services. The control plane called Contour was contributed to ...Full Article
Google Cloud Debuts 16-GPU Ampere A100 Instances
On the heels of the Nvidia’s Ampere A100 GPU launch in May, Google Cloud is announcing alpha availability of the A100 “Accelerator Optimized” VM A2 instance family on Google ...Full Article
AutoML Startup dotData Supports Container-Based Models
As data science platforms expand across enterprise applications like predictive analytics, automated machine learning vendors are steadily integrating AI models with emerging infrastructure to ease deployment and orchestration. For ...Full Article
Cyber Security is Recovery Focus as 5G Enthusiasm Wanes
The urgency of 5G wireless rollouts has diminished among executives in a monthly survey of global business conditions as enterprises shift their pandemic recovery focus to more pressing matters ...Full Article
AWS Takes the High Ground with Space Unit
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has long talked about moving manufacturing and other industrial activities off the earth as a way to preserve our only home. The cloud giant took ...Full Article
Kubernetes-Native DevOps Gains Steam
Application development tool vendors continue to attract investors as enterprise DevOps teams look to automate workflows that will accelerate continuous integration and delivery capabilities for application container and microservices ...Full Article
Xilinx Keeps Pace in AI Accelerator Race
FPGAs are increasingly used to accelerate AI workloads in datacenters for tasks like machine learning inference. A growing list of FPGA accelerators are challenging datacenter GPU deployments, promising to ...Full Article
AI is Key to China Infrastructure Plan, as is AI Talent
China’s latest set of technology goals for the next decade have been assimilated into an initiative launched this spring under the rubric, “new infrastructure.” Collectively, the aspirational blueprint includes ...Full Article
C3.ai’s COVID-19 Awardees Are an Inflection Point for Pandemic Research
“The probability of something good not coming out of this is zero,” said Tom Siebel, CEO of enterprise AI software provider C3.ai, which has announced the winners of its ...Full Article
Nebulon, Cloud Storage Startup, Emerges from Stealth
A growing list of cloud storage startups continue to emerge as enterprises struggle to get a handle on big data while seeking to move computing closer to where data ...Full Article