Compute

Custom Arm CPUs Drive Many Different AI Approaches In The Datacenter

Sponsored Feature  Arm is starting to fulfill its promise of transforming the nature of compute in the datacenter, and it is getting some big help from traditional chip makers as well as the hyperscalers and cloud builders that have massive computing requirements and who also need to drive efficiency up

Connect

The Back End AI Network Puts Pressure On The Front End

For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or model and the only link it needed to the outside world was a relatively small one to show some visualization. With the GenAI version of artificial

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Edge

AI Workloads Are Changing IT Demands At The Edge

COMMISSIONED  As the AI era unfolds, I have been reflecting on my journey in the tech industry. What’s happening with AI at the edge right now reminds me of the early days of the internet, when the potential seemed limitless, but the path was unclear. Similarly, edge computing and AI

AI

Cisco Puts Big AI Infrastructure Into Small Packages

Generative AI is still very much an emerging technology and it’s morphing and evolving rapidly, as is illustrated with the trend toward agentic AI, which we’ve written about previously. But enterprise adoption is ramping quickly and organizations are moving from testing out the technology to applying it to various use

AI

Stop Bottlenecking Your AI: Storage Hacks for Hungry GPUs

COMMISSIONED  In the fast-paced world of AI, GPUs are often hailed as the quiet powerhouse driving innovation. They’re the brainpower behind everything from chatbots and self-driving cars to algorithms detecting cancerous cells in medical scans. But here’s a dirty little secret: even the most powerful GPUs can be reduced to

Compute

Google Covers Its Compute Engine Bases Because It Has To

The minute that search engine giant Google wanted to be a cloud, and the several years later that Google realized that companies were not ready to buy full-on platform services that masked the underlying hardware but wanted lower level infrastructure services that gave them more optionality as well as more

AI

High Quality Data Is Key For Effective AI Agents

COMMISSIONED  As enterprises increasingly adopt GenAI-powered AI agents, making high-quality data available for these software assistants will come into sharper focus. This is why it’s more important than ever for IT leaders to get their data house in order. Unfortunately, the data houses of most IT shops may be messier