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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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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

By moving applications back on premises, or using on-premises or hosted private cloud services, CIOs can avoid multi-tenancy while ensuring data privacy. Secure storage, together with data transformation, monitoring, auditing, and a compliance layer, increase the complexity of the system. Adding vaults is needed to secure secrets.

Cloud 350
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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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Optimizing The Data Warehouse: A Big Data Blueprint from Pentaho

CTOvision

The company saves on storage costs and speeds-up query performance and access to their analytic data mart. Time to value: MapReduce development time is reduced by up to 15x versus hand-coding based on comparisons. Affordably scale machine data from storage devices for customer application. The Results. Customer ROI.

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

Network World

According to a comparison cited by Goswami, the platform’s dot product engine delivers 4.1 Meanwhile, universities such as Stanford and MIT are conducting research to advance neuromorphic computing and integrate it with AI applications. The energy efficiency of the new platform is especially impressive.

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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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Is your data ready for AI?

CIO Business Intelligence

And you might know that getting accurate, relevant responses from generative AI (genAI) applications requires the use of your most important asset: your data. Structured data is easily available for use in AI applications. It’s become clear that generative AI will play an important role in your organization.

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