Compute
IBM Shows Off Next-Gen AI Acceleration, On Chip DPU For Big Iron
Big Blue might be a little late to the AI acceleration game, but it has a captive audience in its System z mainframe and Power Systems servers. …
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AI
IBM Lays Its GenAI Foundation With Software And Services
When you are International Business Machines and you do corporate IT deals in 185 countries around the world, political and economic uncertainty is always a problem. …
AI
Red Hat Saddles Up For The Wide Open GenAI Horizons
A theme snaking its way through conversations these days about generative AI is the need for open source models, open platforms, and industry standards as ways to make the emerging technology more accessible and widely adopted by enterprises. …
Control
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes
It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …
Compute
Big Blue Bucks The Datacenter Server Recession
Some patterns are very hard to break. From the very early days of the systems business as we know it, which started six decades ago, the fourth quarter of the calendar year has been the money maker for companies like IBM, and the second quarter has been a relatively big one for those who could not get their budgets together before the end of the prior year. …
Compute
Datacenter Infrastructure Report Card, Q3 2023
It is hard to keep a model of datacenter infrastructure spending in your head at the same time you want to look at trends in cloud and on-premises spending as well as keep score among the key IT suppliers to figure out who is winning and who is losing. …
AI
Big Blue Can Still Catch The AI Wave If It Hurries
It has been two and a half decades since we have seen a rapidly expanding universe of a new kind of compute that rivals the current generative AI boom. …
Compute
Google Gives A Peek At What A Quantum Computer Can Do
Four years ago, Google engineers boasted of achieving “quantum supremacy” following experiments that showed its 53-qubit Sycamore quantum system solving problems that classical supercomputers either can’t or take a very long time to accomplish. …
AI
Enterprises Are Not Going To Miss The Fourth Wave Of AI
IBM announced its Watsonx software development stack back in May, and today it is starting to ship it to customers. …
Code
Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?
Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. …