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IBM Coils Anaconda Around Power Processor
IBM, which recently extended support for the Anaconda data science platform to its open source mainframe, takes another step this week by offering the data platform on its Cognitive ...Full Article
Collaborative Cloud under Development for Manufacturers in Europe
Calling itself the first collaborative cloud-based platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry, the Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET) consortium was announced today in Europe. ...Full Article
Is Scale-Up Your Best Scale-Out Option?
Looking at the industry today, you’d think scale-out architectures are the only way to deliver application performance and availability at low-cost. Major technology companies, such as Amazon, Google, and ...Full Article
Nvidia Responds to Google TPU Benchmarking
Last week, Google reported that its custom ASIC Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) was 15-30x faster for inferencing workloads than Nvidia’s K80 GPU (see our coverage, Google Pulls Back the Covers ...Full Article
New Frontiers in Cyber Security: Locomotives without Wheels, Moats, Deep Learning at the Edge
Industry analyst Bob Sorensen recently told us something most IT managers already know deep in their apprehensive hearts: cyber security is in a sorry state (see “Be More Afraid,” ...Full Article
Google Pulls Back the Covers on Its First Machine Learning Chip
This week Google released a report detailing the design and performance characteristics of the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), its custom ASIC for the inference phase of neural networks (NN). Google ...Full Article
Elastifile’s ‘Cross-Cloud Fabric’: Flash-Native Distributed File System for Hybrid IT
The tidal movement toward hybrid on- and off-prem IT is well underway and well understood. But the data management challenges of multi-site implementations, with data and applications straddling multiple ...Full Article
IBM Bare Metal Cloud Targets AI with New P100 GPUs
IBM announced today that it will be adding Nvidia P100 graphics processors to its Bluemix cloud later this month, becoming the "first major global cloud vendor" to provide the high-end ...Full Article
Autonomous Cars: Google No. 1, Toyota Sees Carbon-free Future, Memory a Speed Bump?
With billions of dollars at stake in the car market of the future, technology and auto companies are aggressively jockeying for position to deliver self-driving vehicles that could, ultimately, ...Full Article
Bringing Big Data and HPC Together
What does the intersection of big data and high performance computing look like? About 50 technology leaders from across industries got an exclusive glimpse during Tabor Communications’ inaugural LBD ...Full Article
