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Snowflake Introduces Manufacturing Data Cloud to Empower Industries with Data and AI
Data and AI technology for manufacturing is having a moment. As AI has expanded its lengthy reach into manufacturing, there have been several purpose-built releases lately from companies like Nvidia and Databricks that a Read more…
Google Claims Its TPU v4 Outperforms Nvidia A100
A new scientific paper from Google details the performance of its Cloud TPU v4 supercomputing platform, claiming it provides exascale performance for machine learning with boosted efficiency. The authors of the resear Read more…
Wired vs. Unwired and the Coming Massive Changes in IoT Provisioning
There are two battling initiatives about to emerge in the IoT market. On the enterprise side, we have a largely Cisco-led initiative that attempts to take power over ethernet (PoE) and make it universal. On the other sid Read more…
How to Address Scale and Performance Needs in IoT
During the summer, electricity grid disruptions and outages can occur more frequently. It’s a frightening thought: 12 nursing home residents died in Florida in stifling heat after Hurricane Irma knocked out their facil Read more…
Define and Tackle Your Edge
An ambulance speeds down the highway to take a critically ill patient to the hospital. Employees in a crowded retail store help shoppers find just the right gift. An airplane cruises at 500 miles per hour, 30,000 feet in Read more…
News In Brief
Airbus is Teaching Planes to Land Themselves
Most people are familiar with autopilot, the system that controls an airplane’s speed, altitude, and heading under the watch of trained pilots. For the most part, pilots are still in charge of takeoffs and landings, bu Read more…
IBM Collaboration Looks to Bring Massive AI Models to Any Cloud
Training machine learning foundation models with sometimes billions of parameters demands serious computing power. For example, the largest version of GPT-3, the famous large language model behind OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, ha Read more…
Samsung Announces 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM for 30% Faster Speeds
Samsung Electronics announced Thursday it has begun sampling a 16GB Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) DRAM featuring 24-gigabit-per-second processing speeds. The new high-speed memory chips for graphics cards are bu Read more…
Is Real-Time Streaming Finally Taking Off?
Like commercial fusion reactors, real-time streaming is a tantalizing technology, but one that perpetually needs just a few more years (or decades) of R&D. But some in the industry are sensing that something has shif Read more…
AIOps Platform Provider Selector Raises $28M Series A
Selector, an AIOps, analytics and observability platform provider, has announced it raised $28 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. Selector will use these new funds for its mar Read more…
This Just In
RICHLAND, Wash., March 18, 2025 — The technology behind web search engines is useful for more than tracking down your long-lost buddy or discovering a delicious new recipe. Technology based on search engine algorithms might also help keep the lights on, the water running and the trains moving during an emergency. Read more…
HANOVER, Md., March 18, 2025 — The rapid growth of AI workloads is driving a major transformation in data center network infrastructure, with global data center experts anticipating a significant increase in interconnect bandwidth needs over the next five years, according to a study commissioned by Ciena. Read more…
AUSTIN, Texas and SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2025 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced today that the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra) has signaled its intent to join as a member foundation, following unanimous approval from both the OpenInfra and Linux Foundation boards. Read more…
REDLANDS, Calif., March 10, 2025 — At its 2025 Partner Conference, Esri—the global leader in location intelligence—announced a collaboration with Google Maps Platform. Enabling users to create highly detailed and visually immersive 3D maps and scenes, this collaboration integrates Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles into the ArcGIS suite. Read more…
BOSTON, Feb. 25, 2025 — Findings from the third annual Wasabi Global Cloud Storage Index, a survey of 1,600 decision-makers involved with the purchase of their organization’s cloud object storage, show the material impact fee charges have on businesses, with over half (56%) of organizations noting their IT and business operations have been stifled by data egress and access fees. Read more…