Source: Ampere
Renée James, former Intel President, Heads New ARM-based Server Chip Venture
The “leadership journey” of Renée James, who held the highest rank of any woman in the history of Intel Corp., has emerged as CEO of a well-heeled, venture-backed company ...Full Article
Deep Learning Portends ‘Sea Change’ for Oil and Gas Sector
The billowing compute and data demands that spurred the oil and gas industry to be the largest commercial users of high-performance computing are now propelling the competitive sector to ...Full Article
Cisco, Google Advance Hybrid Cloud Collaboration
Cisco Systems and Google have been collaborating over the past year to extend the Kubernetes container orchestrator to on-premises production platforms. Cisco's collaboration with Google Cloud was disclosed last ...Full Article
Heptio Bucks Kubernetes Distribution Trend
As container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes make hybrid infrastructure more agile, gradually usurping the role of virtual machines, more tools are emerging from upstream developers of the open source ...Full Article
IBM Adds V100 GPUs to IBM Cloud; Targets AI, HPC
IBM today announced availability of Nvidia V100 GPUs in the IBM Cloud. The move keeps pace with Amazon and Microsoft Azure which also offer V100s and is more evidence ...Full Article
Red Hat Buys Container Startup CoreOS
Red Hat is expanding its push into the nascent micro-services and container orchestration sector with the acquisition of plucky startup CoreOS. The acquisition announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) is valued ...Full Article
Cumulus Networks Riding Shift to Open Nets
Open networking specialist Cumulus Networks closed its latest funding round this week as it seeks to capitalize on the market shift to agile datacenter operations. The company, Mountain View, ...Full Article
HPE, Portworx Partner to Speed Container Workloads
The explosion of on-demand applications like ride hailing and movies is said to be fueling the shift to cloud-native and container-based application frameworks that can meet growing performance requirements. ...Full Article
Apple’s Datacenter Push Rattles Cloud Market
Apple's announcement this week that it would spend more than $10 billion over the next five years on datacenter construction promises to shake up the public cloud market. Responding ...Full Article
Enterprise Software, AI Driving Global IT Spending
Spending on enterprise software is projected to jump by a healthy 9.5 percent in the coming year as demand is stimulated by software services platforms, according to a new ...Full Article
