Speed is the name of the game in the processor world, and the latest competitive sprint down the innovation track involves field programmable gate arrays, known as FPGAs. Since Intel Corp. announced FPGA acceleration platforms operating with Xeon CPUs early last month, several companies have been showcasing a number of use cases for the lightning-fast technology. ...

Nearly every enterprise has plenty of data to process, but a group of scientists in England may be facing the ultimate challenge. They are researchers with the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, known as COSMOS, at the University of Cambridge, and their database is only 14 billion years of information gathered from the Universe. “It’s a ...

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. introduced Synergy (combined compute, storage and network hardware in one chassis) two years ago, the company claimed it would sharply reduce data center costs and provisioning time. Now, DreamWorks Animation LLC, the legendary animation studio (home of “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda”), is offering evidence that the technology enabled it to ...

There are plenty of technology companies with hefty revenue, tens of thousands of employees and a sizable global customer base. There are also smaller, nimble firms with modest profits that can innovate fast and keep larger competitors scrambling to keep up. And then there is that rarely seen third category that combines size, massive revenue ...

The colossus that is now Amazon, with a stock price above $1,100 per share and over $4.5 billion in quarterly earnings, got its humble beginning in 1995 as a website that sold only books. Cloud computing at that time was a mere dream, but if Amazon Web Services Inc. had been an option (it didn’t ...

Although Amazon Web Services Inc. has made plenty of news this week with a multitude of headline-grabbing announcements, much of the talk has surrounded Andy Jassy’s pointed remarks on Wednesday about competitors. The AWS chief executive officer delivered particularly sharp comments about Oracle Corp., which came as a surprise to some because that company lags far ...

New leadership is coming to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on February 1 when current Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman steps down and Antonio Neri (HPE’s current president) takes over. At first glance, it would appear that the company is trading a business and sales executive in Whitman for one with a strong engineering background, but as ...

Today’s string of announcements from AWS re:Invent focused on new cloud tools for writing and debugging code and the migration of Echo‘s artificial intelligence technology into business products. But underlying his keynote presentation, Amazon Web Services Inc. Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Werner Vogels had a more significant message: Amazon is taking a broader view of the entire information ...

The growing focus on data collection and processing by “internet of things” devices is leading information technology executives to seek new solutions that can deliver results at the edge similar to what they know and love in the data center environment. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. believes it has found an answer for that in its ...

The messages coming from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on the first day of its European conference this week validated where many analysts believe the computing industry is headed — and it’s not all about the cloud. HPE’s focus on placing information technology where the data needs it, increased automation in the data center, and building ...