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Arm, Vodafone Demo Virtual Telco Platform

Arm, Vodafone Demo Virtual Telco Platform

The telecommunications sector is embracing enterprise technologies such as server virtualization via an emerging deployment model dubbed ...

OpenShift Gets Virtual Upgrades to Handle Mixed Workloads

OpenShift Gets Virtual Upgrades to Handle Mixed Workloads

Red Hat continues to expand its OpenShift container applications platform with virtualization capabilities aimed at virtual machine-based ...

Analog Devices, Intel Partner on Open 5G Radios

Analog Devices, Intel Partner on Open 5G Radios

Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc. are collaborating on a 5G wireless network design based on an ...

Heterogeneous Computing Gets a Code Similarity Tool

Heterogeneous Computing Gets a Code Similarity Tool

A machine programming framework for heterogeneous computing championed by Intel Corp. and university partners is built around ...

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New AI Training Method Works on Individual Desktops, Laptops
August 5, 2020
Training AI models can be incredibly computationally intensive. Researchers often use supercomputers to ready the models, and the impact can be severe: the training process for a single model can be intensive enough to produce the carbon emissions produced by five cars over their entire vehicle lifespans. Apart from the upfront costs and impacts, this computational intensity can also ... Full article
Arm, Vodafone Demo Virtual Telco Platform
August 5, 2020
The telecommunications sector is embracing enterprise technologies such as server virtualization via an emerging deployment model dubbed universal CPE, for customer premises equipment. CPE generally includes on-premise equipment such as routers, network switches and base stations as well as software-defined wide-area networks and Ethernet access devices. For network vendors, universal CPE and related virtual networking appliances are an emerging ... Full article
AWS re:Invent Goes Virtual (and Free) as COVID-19 Conference Cancellations Continue
August 3, 2020
AWS re:Invent has been re-imagined as a free, three-week virtual conference taking place in early December, Amazon Web Services announced last week, as the fall lineup of physical tech conferences continues to dwindle as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and online offerings continue to grow. When the novel coronavirus reared its ugly head earlier this year, wiping out ... Full article
Analog Devices, Intel Partner on Open 5G Radios
August 3, 2020
Intel Corp. and Analog Devices Inc. are collaborating on a 5G wireless network design based on an emerging open standard with the goal of developing flexible radio platforms that would help carriers scale 5G network deployments. The wireless partnership announced Monday (Aug. 3) would combine ADI’s RF transceivers with Intel’s Arria 10 FPGAs, giving network developers a set of ... Full article
Cloud for Clouds: ClimaCell Leverages Cloud HPC to Deliver Weather Micro-Forecasting
August 1, 2020
Weather forecasting is a tricky, unforgiving business, and for weather-dependent clients in precise locations, like airlines and sports teams, accuracy is king. Making accurate predictions for a highly specific area, however, is not within the scope of many major weather models, which operate with resolutions measured in kilometers. Weather technology company ClimaCell provides micro-forecasting for clients who need more ... Full article
How AI and ML Applications Will Benefit from Vector Processing
July 31, 2020
As expected, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications are already having an impact on society. Many industries that we tap into daily—such as banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), and digitized health care—can benefit from AI and ML applications to help them optimize mission-critical operations and execute functions in real time. The BFSI sector is an early ... Full article
Heterogeneous Computing Gets a Code Similarity Tool
July 30, 2020
A machine programming framework for heterogeneous computing championed by Intel Corp. and university partners is built around an automated engine that analyzes code for similarities. The approach could eventually allow non-programmers to create software based on intent. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) along with research partners at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology said their Machine Inferred ... Full article
Nvidia Dominates Latest MLPerf Training Benchmark Results
July 29, 2020
MLPerf.org released its third round of training benchmark (v0.7) results today and Nvidia again dominated, claiming 16 new records. Meanwhile, Google provided early benchmarks for its next generation TPU 4.0 accelerator and Intel previewed performance on third-gen processors (Cooper Lake). Notably, the MLPerf benchmarking organization continues to demonstrate growth; it now has 70 members, a jump from 40 last ... Full article
Lightbits Links Kubernetes to Persistent Storage via NVMe
July 24, 2020
Lightbits Labs, the “originator” of NVM Express over TCP block storage, said the latest version of its LightOS platform integrates cloud-native persistent storage for Kubernetes. The result is said to be improved scaling and availability via clustering. San Jose-based Lightbits’ architecture separates storage and computing while leveraging NVMe/TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). Its software-defined storage framework now targets container-based applications ... Full article
3 Key Ways AI is Powering the Modern Enterprise
July 24, 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has had a massive impact on the way companies do business, and it goes without saying that the technology is here to stay. An article from Forbes stated that Gartner predicts the business value created by AI will reach $3.9 trillion dollars in 2022. Meanwhile, IDC forecasts worldwide spending on cognitive and AI systems will reach ... Full article
Software Sector Among Tech Leaders in Deals, Funding
July 23, 2020
Software industry mergers and acquisitions reached $3 billion during the second quarter of 2020, driven in part by the shift to cloud computing and cloud-native applications along with the need for heightened cybersecurity. Those trends were also reflected in the growing number of venture investments in software services startups, industry observers said. The largest software deal during the second ... Full article
U.S. AI Corps Seeks to Keep Pace with China
July 22, 2020
A proposed U.S. Digital Service Academy would create an AI software repository to support R&D while training the next generation of AI developers. According to recommendations released this week by a government commission, the proposed coding academy seeks to fill the growing AI talent gap by enlisting students who would also serve as federal employees. The accredited, degree-granting U.S. ... Full article
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Language Generator Is Impressive, but Don’t Hold Your Breath for Skynet
July 22, 2020
Just a couple of months after releasing a paper describing GPT-3, AI development and deployment company OpenAI has begun testing its novel, AI-powered language generator with a select group of users through a private beta – and many have been understandably wowed. Fed only with a handful of words, the tool can generate articles, short stories and even poetry ... Full article
IBM, Oracle Unveil Multi-Cloud Deployment Options
July 21, 2020
Public cloud contenders hustling to keep pace with market leaders continue to differentiate their offerings with the rollout of new services spanning hybrid cloud deployments to network orchestration schemes. For example, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its Red Hat unit announced a partnership this week with Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) covering hybrid cloud deployments along with new cloud-based financial and document ... Full article
After Pause, AI Software Market Expected to Soar
July 20, 2020
The upward advance of the global AI software market is forecast to rise between its current $16.4 billion level to as high as nearly $100 billion by 2025 as industry sectors like health care step up their rate of adoption. While the novel coronavirus has prompted some downward revisions in the otherwise vibrant AI software market predictions, analyst Omdia ... Full article
Palantir, Rackspace Lead a Wave of Tech IPOs
July 17, 2020
Cloud and software vendors of various stripes and high-flying big data analytics provider Palantir Technologies have gauged financial market sentiments and decided now is the time to launch initial stock offerings. For Palantir, which has been racking up a growing list of U.S. government contracts spanning Pentagon data mining technologies to COVID-19 analytics, the question was when, not if, the ... Full article
Survey: AI Risks Grow Along with Adoption
July 16, 2020
More than half of early AI adopters said they have invested more than $20 million on AI technologies and talent during the past year as they seek to harness machine automation to differentiate their services and create new products. Meanwhile, cybersecurity, AI failures and regulatory uncertainty are complicating future deployments and use cases. An annual AI adoption survey released ... Full article
IBM, Verizon Team on 5G for IoT
July 16, 2020
Responding to what they say is a wave of pandemic-driven automation, IBM and Verizon have announced an Internet of Things partnership that combines IBM’s AI, hybrid cloud and asset management tools with the wireless carrier’s 5G and edge computing technologies. The partners said this week they will collaborate to deploy 5G wireless and edge computing for IoT and future ... Full article
AutoML Platform Kepler Targets Domain Experts
July 15, 2020
As more companies roll out digital infrastructure, they are ingesting greater volumes of data that can be used by business analysts to gauge customer intent and boost transactions. Complexity and lack of data scientists have made that transition harder for mid-size firms looking to monetize “dark” data. Machine learning vendors are therefore automating key aspects of data science workflows ... Full article
App Tracing Startup Emerges from Stealth
July 14, 2020
As enterprise software architectures evolve beyond monolithic applications to delivering micro-services, debugging tools like distributed tracing are emerging to detect cyberattacks against one of the foundations of cloud-native deployments: APIs. With attacks proliferating on the hundreds of APIs used to build individual enterprise applications, AI and distributed tracing tools are being used to monitor micro-services. So, too, are well-heeled ... Full article

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