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Pure Storage and Nvidia claim AIRI Mini is ‘AI supercomputer in a half-rack’
Artificial intelligence is going mainstream; more and more businesses are trying to juice a competitive advantage from novel AI tech. The need to cram terabytes or petabytes of data into algorithms for real-time insight is asking 110 percent of techies’ brain power. Massively parallel computing with graphics processing units might push AI further into everyday ...
Storage austerity helps F1-racing tech get up and go
To pull ahead in intensely competitive Formula 1 racing, teams increasingly leverage technology to fine-tune cars and win races. Safety concerns and the challenge of moving bulky infrastructure around the world present a host of challenges for information technology personnel. Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd must set up its data center in 21 different locations per ...
Analysis by paralysis: Why data should stay put in AI infrastructure
Artificial intelligence and machine learning software geared for data analysis is flooding the market, and companies are buying. But a close examination reveals that the vast majority of big-data projects implode and most data scientists spend little time actually doing analytics. What are all of these people doing wrong? “The bigger movement here is that ...
Toyota breaks data silos to go toe-to-toe with Uber and Co.
Do old incumbents really have a chance against nimble, zero-baggage startups? The automotive industry is a good place to dig out the answer to that question. Established giants like Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. are leveraging data compete against transportation service startups like Uber Technologies Inc. The days when auto makers only had to ...
Don’t even think about big data without metadata cataloging, says Informatica
Loafing about on a coherent big data strategy has to be one of the dumbest moves an enterprise can make these days. Losing out on potential business value and severe regulatory penalties are just two possible costs. That’s not to say it’s as easy as flipping a switch. How can companies get their data act ...
How APIs can connect the data dots dizzying enterprises
Take multiple spigots spouting torrents of data, add multicloud topping, and stir in pressing privacy and compliance concerns; the resulting beast is tough to roll into an application and shimmy through the window to business value before it shuts. Informatica LLC thinks it can pull it off for customers by being the best-in-breed data asset ...
OpenStack unpacks and moves up with containers, CI/CD
What ever happened to OpenStack, the open-source software platform for cloud computing? It’s fully alive, actually. As for its wellness and prospects for the future, that depends on how one sees the glass — half full, half empty, or brimming over with public-cloud complexity. This year’s OpenStack show was not the most hotly anticipated conference ...
As data-driven road gets bumpier, Informatica and others race to finish
As if data collection, cleansing, wrangling, mangling and disentangling weren’t frustrating enough to enterprises, the General Data Protection Regulation is going live this month, impacting any business with customers in Europe. How are companies going to navigate all the twists and bends toward a data-driven business model? Will a vendor swoop in and show them the way through? ...
Open-source eats software: How Red Hat buys tech and sets it free
Red Hat Inc.’s crazy-enough-to-work business model of selling open-source technology in managed packages has a reverse mirror image: It’s also buying for-profit companies and spilling the tech out into the open-source community. “We buy companies and we open-source their software, and we make it available to you as part of your subscription,” said Denise Dumas (pictured), ...
Red Hat and CoreOS put Kubernetes on autopilot
In its ongoing assault on the complexity of containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications), Red Hat Inc. acquired CoreOS Inc. earlier this year. CoreOS has broken ground in the use of Kubernetes (an open-source container orchestration platform) for operations automation. The two are blending their technologies to wrought out easy, practical value-adds from ...