Amazon Web Services Inc. envisions a world in which billions of AI agents will be working together. That will take a significant advance in frontier model reasoning, and the company made several major announcements today to make this dream a reality. “Why not?” is the cloud giant’s central re:Invent conference tagline this week, and AWS ...

The conversation around high-performance computing has changed dramatically in less than four years. What used to be a focus on the latest processors — “speeds and feeds” — has now evolved into whole new software stacks powered by advanced chipsets from vendors such as Nvidia Corp. and others. AI is rewriting the rules of infrastructure ...

It has been two years since Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of virtualization powerhouse VMware Inc. was finalized, changing the landscape for the enterprise private cloud. The transition was significant in the private cloud arena. Companies noted higher prices and reduced marketing resources from VMware, while a simplified subscription model and renewed focus on top-tier firms have fueled ...

A new performance wall is emerging as next-generation systems strain under skyrocketing model demands, especially when artificial intelligence workloads push AI inferencing engines beyond what conventional memory tiers can handle. WekaIO Inc.’s newest release, built in collaboration with Nvidia Corp., takes direct aim at that constraint with a redesigned memory extension layer. By streaming key-value ...

One of the largest players in the data infrastructure market announced on Tuesday that it would be teaming up with Microsoft Corp. to power the next wave of agentic AI. Vast Data Inc. will be collaborating with Microsoft on its Azure platform to provide customers with high-performance AI infrastructure in the cloud. Enterprises will have ...

The heads of several powerful financial regulators in the U.S. signaled this week that they were getting on board the fast-moving digital currency train. Paul Atkins, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said his agency is working on a framework for allowing the offer of crypto assets tied to investment contracts. Speaking at the ...

Dynatrace Inc. built its place in the technology world by providing observability and security for traditional workloads. That mission has now come to include support for artificial intelligence workloads with AI-powered observability, which has given the company a prime position from which to observe the latest trends. “We see a change in how people are building ...

As Latin America’s largest bank, Banco do Brasil was looking to reduce overhead while expanding its hybrid cloud strategy. It turned to Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift to triple the number of managed applications. The platform also helped the bank meet regulatory compliance without increasing staff, according to Gustavo Fiuza (pictured, center), DevOps engineer at Banco ...

It was Amie Wei’s first hackathon, and she thought her idea to build a “cart to kitchen” AI shopping assistant would at least help her decide what to make for her parents when they came to visit, regardless of whether she won or not. The intelligent helper that Wei (pictured, center) built was part of ...

The launch of Google Kubernetes Engine or GKE 10 years ago played a major role in defining how enterprises think about cloud reliability and scale. It also was a key milestone in uniting other major cloud providers around a common abstraction, according to Kelsey Hightower (pictured, center), distinguished engineer at Google Cloud. “It was the ...