Intel Adds 56-core Socketed Cooper Lake
Intel today announced that its forthcoming Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable processors, based on Intel’s 14nm++ process, will come with up to 56-cores in a socketed form factor, leveraging the ...Full Article
Xilinx vs. Intel: FPGA Market Leaders Launch Server Accelerator Cards
The two FPGA market leaders, Intel and Xilinx, both announced new accelerator cards this week designed to handle specialized, compute-intensive workloads and unburden already overworked CPUs in data center ...Full Article
Kubernetes Developer Mesosphere Rebrands as D2iQ
Kubernetes, the de facto standard cluster orchestrator, continues to transform an expanding ecosystem of enterprise cloud vendors to the point where some are changing their identity to reflect the ...Full Article
Google Cloud Adds VMware Options
Google continues to expand its cloud offerings for priority enterprise workloads with the addition of VMware virtualization options. The partners announced this week VMware’s Cloud Foundation will be supported ...Full Article
Xilinx–SolarFlare Deal Closes, Combines FPGAs, High Performance Networks
In a year of major M&A activity in the high performance technology sector, Xilinx announced today the closing of its acquisition of low latency network provider SolarFlare, whose speedy ...Full Article
Red Hat Usage Data: IBM AI Gold Mine?
Data may have been a major – and under-appreciated – factor compelling Big Blue to plunk down $34 billion for Red Hat, a deal (the third largest in tech ...Full Article
Kubernetes, Container Security Woes Evolving
Kubernetes security has emerged as a booming business as deployments enter production and security vendors release a steady stream of user surveys pinpointing specific pain points in production container ...Full Article
Cloud Foundry Gets Another Security Layer
A runtime security tool released this week by Aqua Security allows users of Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry platform to scan container-based and cloud native applications from development through production workloads. ...Full Article
NVMe over Fabric Advances
Efforts to move NVM Express technology over fabrics into enterprise datacenters advanced this week with progress toward a new industry specification entering its final review. NVM Express Inc. announced ...Full Article
5G: Higher Data Rates Only Part of It – Here’s Why
5G is massively faster than 4G: 5GB/second vs. 100-200MB/second. Impressive, yes, but higher data rates explains only part of 5G's significance. The coming 5G cellular network will bring the ...Full Article
