Cisco Buys App Monitor
Cisco System's deal this week to acquire privately held application-monitoring specialist AppDynamics represents a bet that enterprises will increasingly rely on distributed applications and other data services that need ...Full Article
IBM Wants to be “Red Hat” of Deep Learning
IBM today announced the addition of TensorFlow and Chainer deep learning frameworks to its PowerAI suite of deep learning tools, which already includes popular offerings such as Caffe, Theano, ...Full Article
Automated Software Testers Attract VC Funds
Automated software testing is gaining momentum as enterprises look to accelerate DevOps by moving beyond manual steps such as scripting of code. The added agility is seen as another ...Full Article
Answered Prayers for High Frequency Traders? Latency Cut to 20 Nanoseconds
“You can buy your way out of bandwidth problems. But latency is divine.” This sentiment, expressed by Intel Technical Computing Group CTO Mark Seager, seems as old as the ...Full Article
Despite Uncertainty, Cloud Drives IT Spending
Global IT spending is forecast to increase by 2.7 percent in 2017, a modest increase that might be higher if not for "political uncertainty in global markets," according to ...Full Article
Machine Learning and Online Security in 2017
As companies increase their digital footprints, ‘identify and diagnose’ capabilities will not defend against the growing array of security threats, according to analysts at Gartner Group. Because the types ...Full Article
Software Development Still Lacks Agility
The growing desire to speed the deployment of enterprise software is being hampered by a shortfall in automation skills and "fragmented" testing processes. Lack of training and tools along ...Full Article
The ‘Extinction Event’ for Performance Analysis and Capacity Management
The traditional way IT conducts performance analysis and capacity management for their infrastructure is, officially, a dinosaur. From the most advanced scale HPC architectures to commodity hardware and software ...Full Article
