Andy Patrizio
Andy Patrizio is a freelance journalist based in southern California who has covered the computer industry for 20 years and has built every x86 PC he’s ever owned, laptops not included.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of ITworld, Network World, its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
HPE, DoE partner for AI-driven energy efficiency
HPE and the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory will work on developing AI and ML technologies for more efficient data-center operation
Inphi launches DSPs for long-distance 400Gb networking
Inphi claims its new signaling chips will triple throughput while reducing power draw for transmissions up to 100 kilometers.
Nvidia quietly unveils faster, lower power Tesla GPU accelerator
Nvidia has upgraded its Volta line of Tesla GPU-accelerator cards to work faster using the same power as its old model.
8 ways to prepare your data center for AI’s power draw
Artificial intelligence requires greater processor density, which increases the demand for cooling and raises power requirements.
Cumulus Networks updates its network-centric Linux distribution
Company says its Linux is to networking what Red Hat is to servers.
Intel targets Nvidia (again) with GPU and cross-processor API
Intel is looking to offer a unified CPU, GPU, and platform architecture that Nvidia doesn’t have but AMD does.
Digital Realty jumps into interconnection business
PlatformDIGITAL offers a single source for global data-center coverage, capacity and connectivity. Implementation blueprints aim to allow customers to quickly deploy enterprise infrastructure where they need it.
DXC is betting IT apps and services will stay on-premises
New DXC CEO Mike Salvino talks about getting rid of distraction businesses to focus on what he calls the enterprise stack.
Cray to license Fujitsu Arm processor for supercomputers
HPE's Cray will co-develop Fujitsu's A64FX CPU to meet the requirements of likely customers such as universities and national research laboratories.
USPS invests in GPU-driven servers to speed package processing
U.S. Postal Service plans to use servers powered by Nvidia GPUs and deep learning software to train multiple AI algorithms for image recognition, yielding a tenfold increase in package-processing speed.
HPE boosts storage, hyperconvergence products with AI
HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure gains artificial intelligence capabilities; HPE Primera storage platform gains composability features to boost agility and scalability.
AMD Epyc processors continue to gain momentum
Dell, HPE and Lenovo have more than doubled their AMD-powered server offerings. Meanwhile, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure have announced plans to deploy Epyc processors in their data centers.
Digital Realty acquisition of Interxion to reshape data-center landscape
Strategic acquisition will give Digital Realty a huge boost globally, thanks to Interxion’s European data center sites and its interconnection capabilities linking Europe to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Intel unveils new Xeon E-2200 line for entry level servers
The not-so-new line will go where eight cores will do instead of 28 cores.
Micron finally delivers its answer to Optane
New drive offers DRAM-like performance and is targeted at analytics and transaction workloads.
Psst! Wanna buy a data center?
Data centers are being bought and sold at an increasing rate, although since they are often private transactions, solid numbers can be hard to come by.
New mainframe uses: Blockchain, containerized apps
Blockchain and containerized microservices can benefit from the mainframe’s integrated security and massive parallelization capabilities.
Three-way merger creates major new cloud solutions provider
New company formed by the merger of AHEAD, Data Blue, and Sovereign Systems will focus on integrating on-premises and cloud infrastructure. The three companies have very little overlap, except they all support Dell and Cisco.
Hitachi Vantara unveils massively scalable storage array
New VSP 5000 storage system is the fastest NVMe array on the market and covers everything from cloud integration to mainframes.
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