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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO Business Intelligence

The comparison of VMware to mainframes started as a bit of a joke for Gartner vice president analyst Michael Warrilow but the analogy holds up, to a point, he says. The comparison works a bit, maybe from a stickiness perspective, because customers have built their applications and workload using virtualization technology on VMware, he says.

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10 quantum computing milestones of 2024

Network World

This means that they have developed an application that shows an advantage over a classical approach though not necessarily one that is fully rolled out and commercially viable at scale. Two functions remove the need to understand quantum circuits, focusing on optimization and chemistry applications.

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What is an AI server? Why artificial intelligence needs specialized systems

Network World

To balance speed, performance and scalability, AI servers incorporate specialized hardware, performing parallel compute across multiple GPUs or using other purpose-built AI hardware such as tensor processing units (TPUs), field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuits and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

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New brain-on-a-chip platform to deliver 460x efficiency boost for AI tasks

Network World

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has announced a breakthrough in artificial intelligence hardware by developing a brain-inspired neuromorphic computing platform. The IISc team’s neuromorphic platform is designed to address some of the biggest challenges facing AI hardware today: energy consumption and computational inefficiency.

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FPGAs lose their luster in the GenAI era

Network World

But Bob ODonnell, president and chief analyst with TECHpinions, disagrees with the comparison. FPGAs are used in a whole bunch of different applications, and theyre not really a one-to-one compare against GPUs. ODonnell said its still up to for debate whether DeepSeeks claims of using low-end hardware are actually true.

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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience

CIO Business Intelligence

Challenges in APAC’s Multicloud Adoption Journey Organisations in Asia Pacific (APAC) are looking at multicloud solutions to help them navigate IT management complexity, digital skills gaps, and limited data and application visibility.

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HP redefines PC refresh approach using performance data

CIO Business Intelligence

Through this evaluation and performance-ranking process, HP recognised the opportunity, both internally and for HP customers, to avoid replacing hardware that still performed well and supported user productivity. HP IT quickly shipped 39 PCs to power users to test performance side by side for comparison.

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