Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition
It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. …
It has always been funny to us that anyone can acquire control of an open source project. …
For the Linux Foundation, this summer in part has been spent pulling in new projects aimed at building an open architecture around the quickly emerging world of agentic AI, the latest rage in the ever-expanding generative AI universe. …
It is a pretty bold claim for anyone to call themselves the creator of the operating system for AI. …
The rapid changes Broadcom instituted after buying virtualization stalwart VMware for $61 billion in late 2023 continue to shape the virtualization and cloud spaces, with some enterprises facing significant higher pricing, new licensing plans, and bunding options looking for alternatives, vendors offering them alternatives, and companies rolling out plans to help with the migrations. …
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. …
We all had been wondering what VMware would look like when it became part of Broadcom’s massive universe following the semiconductor giant’s $69 billion acquisition of the virtualization juggernaut. …
Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …
Rackspace Technology has admittedly been relatively quiet in recent years when it’s come to OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform that was born in 2010 out of the collaboration between the cloud computing company and NASA. …
Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …
It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …
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