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IBM Expands Partnership With App Developer
IBM has been working with an application developer startup called Lightbend Inc. on artificial intelligence, cognitive and other distributed applications, most destined to run in the cloud. The startup ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets Storage, Security Upgrades
As more distributed applications are delivered via containers, managing them at scale has become a key requirement. That has spurred extensions of container orchestration tools such as Docker Swarm ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
Microsoft Buys Cloud Cost Manager
As more enterprises struggle with their cloud migration, tool vendors are emerging to manage the transition along with the cost and complexity that many enterprise cloud adopters underestimate. As ...Full Article
AWS Stresses ‘Security by Design,’ DevOps Freedom
Citing its "mind-blowing" impact on the IT industry, Amazon's CTO argued that the cloud is emerging as the "new normal" for digital enterprises while providing developers with resources designed ...Full Article
Platform9 Raises Cash, Eyes Hybrid Cloud Deployments
Platform9, the open-source tool vendor specializing in hybrid cloud services, announced a third round of funding this week as cloud frameworks such as OpenStack and Kubernetes gain traction among ...Full Article
IoT Helps Redefine Cloud-Native App Development
Distributed applications must be designed upfront for deployment in the cloud if enterprises hope to achieve the scale necessary for Internet of Things and other hyper-scale projects, cloud-native proponents ...Full Article
Pentagon Awards Huge Cloud Contract
Few federal agencies have more stringent security requirements for cloud deployment than the Defense Department, which has been fighting an uphill battle to move more sensitive workloads to the ...Full Article
Cloud Migration: Look Before You Leap
It's best to get your ducks in a row before moving the company jewels to the cloud, a migration study advises. As hybrid cloud strategies gain momentum, the migration ...Full Article
