The acquisitions last year of Nimbix, Visual BI, and Ideal GRP by Atos signaled a more aggressive push by the European HPC vendor into the cloud and tech services space and coincided with a plan to expand beyond its legacy business and into such new growth areas. …
Keeping an eye on how the largest cloud providers choose to invest in hardware is always interesting but it does not often shed much light on how emerging workloads are driving new investments. …
Sometimes markets need a particular technology and they are impatient for it, and sometimes technologies get ahead of the immediate needs of customers and their creators have to hang on until the time is right. …
We have talked at length about the complexity of software and systems in HPC, and many in the community agree that HPC and AI is hard work. …
If you can’t beat the largest cloud players at economies of scale, the only option is to try to outrun them in performance, capabilities, or price. …
Back in 2010, when the term “cloud computing” was still laden with peril and mystery for many users in enterprise and high performance computing, HPC cloud startup, Nimbix, stepped out to tackle that perceived risk for some of the most challenging, latency-sensitive applications. …
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