
Articles by Jeffrey Burt


HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge
Hewlett Packard Enterprise last summer introduced the first of its Gen12 ProLiant systems, packed with Nvidia’s latest GPU accelerators and aimed squarely at the rapidly expanding AI space that in less than two years went from prompt-and-respond chatbots to AI agents that can reason, plan, and collaborate on their own. …

The Coming Age Of The Internet Of Agents
Almost a year ago, executives, researchers, and developers within the Outshift group of Cisco Systems – an incubation unit focused on such advanced technologies as AI and quantum computing – began batting about the idea of a network infrastructure connecting vast numbers of AI agents from multiple vendors or organizations, allowing those AI agents to automatically communicate, work together, and solve complex problems for enterprises. …

Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions
AI agents are the latest evolution in the relatively short life span of generative AI, and while some organizations are still trying to figure out how the emerging technology fits in their operations, others are making strides into agentic AI. …

Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine
Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …

A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission
IT companies have spent billions of dollars creating ways to move data more efficiently and cheaply in an increasingly distributed world of on-premises datacenters, multiple clouds, and the edge. …

Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer
For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. …

GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line
The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. …

Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip
There is no shortage of top-name – and even lesser known – companies pursuing the white whale of developing a quantum computer that can run workloads and solve problems that today’s most powerful classical computers simply can’t. …

HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor
When Fidelma Russo looks at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake, she sees a rapidly expanding platform that like others is trying to keep pace not only with the growing demands of organizations that are continuing to adopt the cloud but also are looking for ways to bring in and deploy emerging AI technologies. …