Economic and technical forces have a kind of momentum that keeps them growing even as any new technology goes through its inevitable hype cycle from innovation to inflated expectations to disillusionment to deployment into productivity.

Dec 19, 2024 · The market for cloud infrastructure is now so large that it is very difficult for it to change drastically. But given the fact that people can turn off server, storage, and networking capacity as easily as they can turn it on, predicting how much money the world will spend on cloudy infrastructure can be tricky.

Dec 13, 2024 · Tan said on the call that VMware sold licenses covering 21 million cores in the quarter, up from 18.5 million cores in Q3 F2024. The annualized booking value for VMware was $2.7 billion, and we estimate that VMware brought in $3.91 billion in sales and $2.57 billion in operating income.

Nov 18, 2024 · Every couple of years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gets to install the world’s fastest supercomputer. And thankfully the HPC center usually chooses a machine that not only fulfills its mission of managing the nuclear weapons stockpile of the United States military, but also picks a mix of technologies that advances the state of the art in supercomputing.

Dec 18, 2024 · That, in a nutshell, is why Databricks has been able to talk private equity investors into a stunning ten rounds of funding, with the latest announced this week weighing in at a record-breaking $10 billion, bringing the company’s total funding to date to just under $14 billion since it was founded way back in 2013.

Oct 21, 2024 · This is a good question, and we will get some answers from experts who are wrestling with that question right now in a live webinar on October 24 from 9 am to 10 am Pacific Daylight Time. Our panelists include: Nidhi Chappell, vice president and general manager of Azure AI infrastructure at Microsoft

Jan 16, 2025 · 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.. LangChain, the company behind the popular AI software framework of the same name and the LangGraph orchestration tool, found in a survey of more than ...

Nov 18, 2024 · There has been a lot more churn on the November Top500 supercomputer rankings that is the talk of the SC24 conference in Atlanta this week than there was in the list that came out in June at the ISC24 conference in Hamburg, Germany back in May, and there are some interesting developments in the new machinery that is being installed.

Nov 19, 2024 · As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC.. They are very different in some ways. HPC takes a tiny dataset and blows it up into a massive simulation like a weather or climate forecast that you can see, and AI takes a mountain of data about the world and grinds it down to a ...

Mar 12, 2024 · Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. But what if the operating system is the problem?. We are so used to thinking of the operating system as the foundation of the ...