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Avoid the Hidden Challenges of Data Migration

To grow in today’s digital world, many companies are adopting a cloud computing strategy. Driven by core objectives like rapidly expanding customer reach and improving IT spend efficiency, pressure from the C-suite to Read more…

Bank Replaces Hundreds of Spark Streaming Nodes with Kinetica

Kinetica got its start serving queries on fast-moving geospatial and temporal data for the Department of Defense. Now it’s moving into other industries with similar big data problems, including finance, where one large Read more…

Is Quantum Computing the Future of AI?

Quantum computing has grabbed the imagination of computer scientists as one possible future of the discipline after we’ve reached the limits of digital binary computers. Thanks to its capability to hold many different Read more…

Cerebras Hits the Accelerator for Deep Learning Workloads

When it comes to large neural networks like BERT or GPT-3, organizations often must wait weeks or even months for a training task to complete if they’re using traditional CPU and GPU clusters. But with its massive Wafe Read more…

Analytics Chip Startup Speedata Emerges from Stealth

There is no shortage of chip startups hoping to claim a piece of the emerging AI pie. But instead of accelerating machine learning workloads, Speedata is looking to speed up the performance of SQL analytics running in co Read more…

News In Brief

VMware Seeks to Liberate Memory Bottlenecks with Project Capitola

At its VMworld 2021 event this week, VMware introduced Project Capitola, a new company-led effort to use its vSphere software to virtualize application access to various types of memory, from DRAM to PMEM to NVMe. The go Read more…

IBM Introduces its First Power10-based Server, the Power E1080; Targets Hybrid Cloud

IBM today introduced the Power E1080 server, its first system powered by a Power10 IBM microprocessor. The new system reinforces IBM’s emphasis on hybrid cloud markets and the new chip beefs up its inference capabiliti Read more…

Voltron Data Takes Flight to Unify Arrow Community

You may know of Apache Arrow as the fast in-memory data format used to accelerate data analytics and data science workloads. What you may not know is that one of the original creators of Arrow and a core member of Nvidia Read more…

Enterprises Needing Accelerated Data Analytics and AI Workloads Get Help from Nvidia and Cloudera

In April, Nvidia and Cloudera unveiled a new partnership effort to bring together Nvidia GPUs, Apache Spark and the Cloudera Data Platform to help customers vastly accelerate their data analytics and AI workloads in the Read more…

Qualcomm Unveils 5G Modem for IoT

Companies that need high-speed data connections to their far-flung Internet of Things (IoT) devices may be interested in the latest 5G modem unveiled today by Qualcomm. The San Diego, California mobile chip giant toda Read more…

This Just In

Lambda Raises $320M in Series C Funding to Expand Its AI Cloud Business and Scale GPU Infrastructure

Feb 16, 2024 |

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 16, 2024 — Lambda, the GPU cloud company founded by AI engineers and powered by NVIDIA GPUs, has announced it has raised a $320 million Series C led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology with participation from new investors B Capital, SK Telecom, funds and accounts advised by T. Read more…

NVIDIA: How Energy-Efficient Computing for AI Is Propelling Innovation and Savings Across Industries

Feb 9, 2024 |

Feb. 9, 2024 — With advances in computing, sophisticated AI models and machine learning are having a profound impact on business and society. Industries can use AI to quickly analyze vast bodies of data, allowing them to derive meaningful insights, make predictions and automate processes for greater efficiency. Read more…

Kalray and Arm to Collaborate to Bring Data Intensive Processing and AI Acceleration DPU Solutions to the Global Arm Ecosystem

Feb 8, 2024 |

GRENOBLE, France, Feb. 8, 2024 — Kalray, a leader in hardware and software technologies dedicated to data management and data intensive processing from cloud to edge, today announced a strategic collaboration with Arm to deliver ultra-high performance data processing and AI capabilities across a broad set of applications, leveraging Kalray’s industry leading data processing unit (DPU) technology and Arm’s robust partner ecosystem. Read more…

WEKA and NexGen Cloud Announce Partnership to Boost Enterprise AI with Advanced GPU Cloud Infrastructure

Jan 31, 2024 |

CAMPBELL, Calif., Jan. 31, 2024 – WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, announced today that it is partnering with NexGen Cloud, a sustainable infrastructure-as-a-service provider based in the UK, to provide the high-performance infrastructure foundation underpinning its forthcoming AI Supercloud, as well as the on-demand services offered by Hyperstack, NexGen Cloud’s GPUaaS platform. Read more…

Datanami Reveals Winners of 2023 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Jan 26, 2024 |

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26, 2024 — Datanami (soon to be BigDATAwire), the leading publication covering big data, analytics, and AI news, today announced the winners of its eighth annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. Read more…

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