Jeffrey Burt, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/jeffrey/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:05:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Jeffrey Burt, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/jeffrey/ 32 32 86113652 Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/16/using-nim-guardrails-to-keep-agentic-ai-from-jumping-to-wrong-conclusions/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/16/using-nim-guardrails-to-keep-agentic-ai-from-jumping-to-wrong-conclusions/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:31:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145191 AI agents are the latest evolution in the relatively short life span of generative AI, and while some organizations are still trying to figure out how the emerging technology fits in their operations, others are making strides into agentic AI. …

Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/16/using-nim-guardrails-to-keep-agentic-ai-from-jumping-to-wrong-conclusions/feed/ 1 145191 Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:13:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145187 Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …

Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/feed/ 0 145187 A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/a-novel-way-to-compact-data-for-more-efficient-storage-and-transmission/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/a-novel-way-to-compact-data-for-more-efficient-storage-and-transmission/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:16:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145175 IT companies have spent billions of dollars creating ways to move data more efficiently and cheaply in an increasingly distributed world of on-premises datacenters, multiple clouds, and the edge. …

A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/a-novel-way-to-compact-data-for-more-efficient-storage-and-transmission/feed/ 3 145175 Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/#comments Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:01:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145157 For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. …

Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/feed/ 2 145157 GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/12/genai-races-ahead-but-enterprises-are-still-at-the-starting-line/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/12/genai-races-ahead-but-enterprises-are-still-at-the-starting-line/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:34:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145129 The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. …

GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/12/genai-races-ahead-but-enterprises-are-still-at-the-starting-line/feed/ 4 145129 Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/09/google-claims-quantum-error-correction-milestone-with-willow-chip/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/09/google-claims-quantum-error-correction-milestone-with-willow-chip/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:00:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145107 There is no shortage of top-name – and even lesser known – companies pursuing the white whale of developing a quantum computer that can run workloads and solve problems that today’s most powerful classical computers simply can’t. …

Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/09/google-claims-quantum-error-correction-milestone-with-willow-chip/feed/ 2 145107 HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/21/hpe-greenlake-platform-gets-expanded-storage-and-custom-kvm-hypervisor/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/21/hpe-greenlake-platform-gets-expanded-storage-and-custom-kvm-hypervisor/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:54:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145032 When Fidelma Russo looks at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake, she sees a rapidly expanding platform that like others is trying to keep pace not only with the growing demands of organizations that are continuing to adopt the cloud but also are looking for ways to bring in and deploy emerging AI technologies. …

HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/21/hpe-greenlake-platform-gets-expanded-storage-and-custom-kvm-hypervisor/feed/ 0 145032 How Convenient: Every Country Needs AI Sovereignty https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/13/how-convenient-every-country-needs-ai-sovereignty/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/13/how-convenient-every-country-needs-ai-sovereignty/#comments Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:13:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144988 If you want to sell a lot of hardware to support AI workloads, then the best way to do that is to convince every country on Earth that AI is so important that they must have a lot of it within their borders. …

How Convenient: Every Country Needs AI Sovereignty was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/13/how-convenient-every-country-needs-ai-sovereignty/feed/ 1 144988 Cisco Puts Big AI Infrastructure Into Small Packages https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/07/cisco-puts-big-ai-infrastructure-into-small-packages/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/07/cisco-puts-big-ai-infrastructure-into-small-packages/#respond Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:14:07 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144970 Generative AI is still very much an emerging technology and it’s morphing and evolving rapidly, as is illustrated with the trend toward agentic AI, which we’ve written about previously. …

Cisco Puts Big AI Infrastructure Into Small Packages was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/07/cisco-puts-big-ai-infrastructure-into-small-packages/feed/ 0 144970 AI Makes Liquid Cooling Normal – And Necessary – Again https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/17/ai-makes-liquid-cooling-normal-and-necessary-again/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/10/17/ai-makes-liquid-cooling-normal-and-necessary-again/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:30:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144846 All trends with AI point up and to the right, and usually pretty sharply. …

AI Makes Liquid Cooling Normal – And Necessary – Again was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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