AI
Startup FlexAI Wants To Make AI Compute Accessible to All
Brijesh Tripathi’s early career took him on a path that wound through Nvidia to Apple to Tesla to Zoox – an autonomous driving company now a subsidiary of Amazon. …
Articles by Jeffrey Burt
AI
Accenture Melds Smarts And Wares With Nvidia For Agentic AI Push
Over the past two years, enterprises have tried to keep up with the staggering pace of the innovation with generative AI, mapping out ways to implement the emerging technology into their operations in hopes of saving time and money, increasing productivity, improving customer service and support, and driving efficiencies. …
Cloud
Oracle Puts AI, Automation Between Its Cloud And the Bad Guys
Despite a slow start several years ago, Oracle has refashioned itself into a cloud builder, rapidly expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to make it among the top second-tier providers, although still well behind the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Cloud
Oracle Runs OCI Clones At Rival AWS, Google, And Azure Clouds
It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. …
Control
VMware Wants To Redefine Private Cloud With VCF 9
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. …
Control
Nvidia Rolls Out Blueprints For The Next Wave Of Generative AI
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. …
Compute
When Nvidia Says Hot Chips, It Means Hot Platforms
Nvidia hit a rare patch of bad news earlier this month when reports started circulating claiming that the company’s much-anticipated “Blackwell” GPU accelerators could be delayed by as much as three months due to design flaws. …
Control
Rackspace Goes All In – Again – On OpenStack
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. …
AI
For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy
For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …
AI
Meta Lets Its Largest Llama AI Model Loose Into The Open Field
A scant three months ago, when Meta Platforms released the Llama 3 AI model in 8B and 70B versions, which correspond to the billions of parameters they can span, we asked the question we ask of every open source tool or platform since the dawn of Linux: Who’s going to profit from it and how are they going to do it? …