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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. Broadcoms infrastructure software revenue grew 41% to $5.8 The comparison to mainframes doesnt extend beyond the stickiness of both technologies, adds A.J.

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10 quantum computing milestones of 2024

Network World

Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction. Microsoft and Atom Computings announce 24 working logical qubits Then, since 12 logical qubits werent enough, in November Microsoft followed up with a joint announcement with a different quantum hardware company, Atom Computing.

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UNIX vs. Linux vs. Windows: 4 Key Comparisons

IT Toolbox

UNIX, Linux, and Windows are operating systems with GUIs, hardware support, networking, and file management. The post UNIX vs. Linux vs. Windows: 4 Key Comparisons appeared first on.

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Red Hat delivers AI-optimized Linux platform

Network World

Not only is it expensive to train or fine-tune a model, but the cost of actually deploying and using the model in production – the inference costs – can rack up quickly, making the training costs seem trivial in comparison. That includes immediate support for Nvidia hardware. Think of it as an appliance,” Katarki says.

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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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FPGAs lose their luster in the GenAI era

Network World

But Bob ODonnell, president and chief analyst with TECHpinions, disagrees with the comparison. ODonnell said its still up to for debate whether DeepSeeks claims of using low-end hardware are actually true. Its all about the software, not the actual chips. Theyre kind of a different animal, he said. The jury is still out.

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Enterprise spending on cloud services keeps accelerating

Network World

In 2012 enterprises spent twelve times as much on their data center hardware and software as they did on cloud infrastructure services, while today they spend three times more on cloud services then they do on their own data center infrastructure,” Dinsdale wrote.