NASA routinely sends rockets into space, but it is also heavily invested in the business of collecting data. Scientists collect observations from satellites, the International Space Station, balloons, ships, airplanes and ground stations to better understand Earth systems and predict major climate changes in advance. It’s an ambitious undertaking, one that requires a blend of ...

When Broadcom Ltd. unveiled its Tomahawk 5 switch processor in August, it delivered the latest salvo in what is shaping up to be an interesting competition among chipmaking giants for hyperscale business. Tomahawk 5 leverages Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet, or RoCE, on open standard designed to offload data movement and availability of ...

The data protection market received a jolt of energy with today’s announcement from Dell Technologies Inc. of several new services as part of its security portfolio. The announcements involved a new PowerProtect appliance, enhancements for Dell’s APEX storage services, and an agreement to use Google Cloud for cyber recovery. “We have 1,700 customers protecting 14 ...

Dell Technologies Inc. broke new ground earlier this week with the unveiling of its PowerEdge XE9680 system at the Supercomputing Conference in Dallas. It was announced as the first system with eight Nvidia GPUs interconnected with Nvidia’s NVLink, designed to meet growing customer demand for large-scale artificial intelligence and high-performance computing initiatives. “What we’re hearing ...

The exhibition floor at Supercomputing 2022 in Dallas had barely opened this week before a series of announcements began to trickle out. Nvidia Corp. introduced new high-performance computing solutions for researchers. Cerebras Systems Inc. unveiled an AI supercomputer that can perform 1 quintillion operations per second. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced a new portfolio for ...

The path to cyber resilience for most companies continues to be paved with obstacles. That was just one finding from a survey of Irish companies commissioned this year by Dell Technologies Inc. The company’s “Cyber Resilience Survey 2022” found that while 91% of organizations in Ireland recognized the importance of cyber resilience at the senior-management ...

The release today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of its 4th Gen EPYC Genoa CPU marked the start of what is expected to be a series of announcements from major chipmakers in the months ahead. Intel will likely make its own microprocessor announcement early next year, and other major chip suppliers, such as Arm Ltd. and Nvidia Corp., are ...

A forthcoming announcement from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. kicks off what is expected to be a pitched battle among x86 processor chip competitors for the enterprise high ground over the coming year. AMD will release its 4th Gen EPYC Genoa CPU on Nov. 10. In partnership with Dell Technologies Inc., theCUBE industry analysts Dave Vellante (pictured, left) ...

Among the many announcements made by Oracle during Oracle CloudWorld in mid-October was the introduction of a cloud-based data lakehouse to support enterprise analytics projects. Designed as part of Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave database platform, Lakehouse was accompanied by claims from the company that the offering would deliver faster performance than competing products. Claims such as ...

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. launched its new ProLiant RL300 Gen 11 server in June, the company’s investment in its hardware line made a statement about the hybrid future. HPE signaled that enterprise customers were looking for server vendors to deliver end-to-end security, optimized performance per workload, and a fully managed environment that can be ...