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‘Neural’ Network Fabric Boosts Server Links
As network bottlenecks mount in datacenters—a hurdle that will only get worse with the deployment of business analytics using machine learning—there is a growing need for networking solutions that ...Full Article
Rackspace Partners With Pivotal, Expands With Google
Cloud manager Rackspace is working with cloud services provider Pivotal Software and Google's public cloud unit to deliver new multi-cloud and other capabilities. The partnerships include management of Pivotal's ...Full Article
Specs Target Container Portability
Application containers are getting more portable across different implementations thanks to a two-year effort to forge "vendor neutral" specifications released this week by an industry group. The Open Container ...Full Article
Open Source Driving DevOps Automation
Heightened awareness about the security risks associated with open source software has increased use of disciplined DevOps practices that have improved application quality and developer productivity, a software supply ...Full Article
AI Makes Inroads into Enterprise Software
Enterprise software is often maligned as a legacy holdover from a previous age, a low-growth market dominated by stodgy software companies out to milk maintenance streams from hapless victims. ...Full Article
Deep Neural Networks: When, and When Not, to Use
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been with us for well over half a century, but confusion still exists regarding what it is and where it is best applied. This is ...Full Article
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
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
Intersect 360 at ISC: HPC Industry at $44B by 2021
The care, feeding and sustained growth of the HPC industry increasingly is in the hands of the commercial market sector – in particular, it’s the hyperscale companies and their ...Full Article
