AI in the News: Rao in at Intel, Ng out at Baidu, NVIDIA on at Tencent Cloud
Just as AI has become the leitmotif of the advanced scale computing market, infusing much of the conversation about HPC in commercial and industrial spheres, it also is impacting ...Full Article
‘API Economy’ Gathering Steam
Mashape, the API marketplace delivering management tools for micro-services and an emerging category dubbed "micro-functions" said this week it has closed an $18 million funding round amid heavy enterprise ...Full Article
IoT Security Adopts a Platform Approach
As is often the case, network security tools are just now beginning to keep catch up with vulnerable Internet of Things deployments, particularly leading edge industrial IoT infrastructure. With ...Full Article
Avere Systems Adds Google as Investor
Avere Systems, the hybrid cloud data storage and management vendor, announced its latest funding round this week that included new investor Google Inc. The $14 million Series E round ...Full Article
Industry Clouds: An At-Scale Grass Roots Movement Changing IT Life within Sectors
One of life’s hazards is becoming so immersed in our own way of doing business that a major disruptive force develops all around us – a threat to our ...Full Article
CoreOS, Docker Donate Container Engines
Applications container pioneers are donating infrastructure building blocks to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in hopes of encouraging continued collaboration and interoperability in an increasingly competitive sector. CoreOS and ...Full Article
Data Prep: Easing Data Scientists’ ‘Janitorial Work’
Data Scientist: is there a more formidable job title in the IT industry? Not Data Manager, not Data Analyst, but Data Scientist. They know things, do things, discuss (among ...Full Article
Intel, Alibaba Demo FPGAs in Cloud
Chinese online retailer Alibaba is collaborating with Intel Corp. on a pilot program to leverage the chipmaker's Xeon-FPGA platform to accelerate the delivery of cloud-based enterprise applications. The partners ...Full Article
Keys to a Successful Cloud Migration
No matter what study you look at, it’s clear that cloud adoption is growing rapidly – and increasingly workloads are being shifted from the data center to clouds. Key ...Full Article
Is Second Generation the Charm for ARM?
A new front in the heretofore Intel-dominated battle to deliver processing power to the datacenter opened this week when Microsoft and Cavium Inc., the ARM server processor specialist, announced ...Full Article
