Cloud
New Norms Of Managing The Hybrid Enterprise
A CIO’s job – to deliver highly available, interconnected systems and acceptable end user performance – was hard enough back in the days when all apps and systems ran under the same roof. …
Microsoft
AI
Microsoft Research Sees Narrowing Innovation Gap in Deep Learning
A lead deep learning expert at Microsoft Research thinks the low-hanging fruit for progress in deep neural networks has been picked and that for the next couple of years, refinement of neural networks and deep learning algorithms will be isolated and incremental. …
Control
HP Follows Hyperscale Lead With Composable Infrastructure
The people in the systems business at Hewlett-Packard have finally caught the DevOps bug. …
Compute
Altera Points To The FPGA Writing On The Wall
For those who marveled at the $16.7 billion deal Intel made to acquire field programmable gate array maker, Altera, an equal number raised eyebrows at the estimate given by Intel CEO to announce the purchase that one-third of cloud workloads would take advantage of FPGA acceleration by 2020. …
AI
Deep Learning Pioneer Pushing GPU Neural Network Limits
Back in the late 1980s, while working in the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs, deep leaning pioneer, Yann LeCun, was just starting down the path of implementing brain-inspired machine learning concepts for image recognition and processing—an effort that would eventually lead to some of the first realizations of these technologies in voice recognition for calling systems and handwriting analysis for banks. …
AI
Microsoft Stacks Azure Up Against AWS
Amazon Web Services may be the 800-pound silverback alpha-ape in the rapidly expanding cloud industry, seeing as how its infrastructure revenue is greater than its four closest competitors combined, but that hasn’t stopped its fast-growing challenger, Microsoft Azure, from beating its own chest and showing off its strengths. …
AI
Microsoft Expands Azure With Data, Fabric Services
Microsoft is ramping up its Azure public cloud in its effort to gnaw away at the hindquarters of Amazon Web Services, which it trails in the ongoing drive to herd enterprise computing into the cloud. …
AI
Cloudy Machine Learning For The Masses
If there is one lesson that the big three public cloud providers teach, it is that there is no substitute for breadth and depth in software engineering. …
Cloud
With Nano Server And Containers, Microsoft Takes On Linux
Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher penetration on cloudy infrastructure. …
Compute
OpenStack And KVM Give Windows New Life On Big Iron
Branching out from the HPC sector into the enterprise does not necessarily require supporting operating systems other than Linux. …