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Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.

Vultr offers affordable access to Nvidia GPUs

Cloud services provider Vultr is offering fractional Nvidia A100 GPU instances for customers that don’t need the full power of more expensive options.

Nvidia announces HPC and edge reference designs, liquid cooling plans

Nvidia has four new compute-node reference designs for for demanding tasks including AI training, high-performance computing, digital twin modeling, and cloud graphics.

IBM launches a software-defined storage server for AI

IBM says the ESS 3500 storage devices will improve AI training by up to 70%.

Pure Storage, Snowflake partner for on-premises data warehousing

Snowflake has always worked in the cloud, but some data warehouses are on premises, and that needed to be addressed.

Western Digital unveils 26TB hard drives, 15TB enterprise SSD

Storage giant updates its high-capacity hard drives and SSDs and debuts a new portable storage device.

Cisco issues alert for defective memory sticks in its servers

Cisco says manufacturing errors are to blame for flaws in its 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB dual in-line memory modules (DIMM).

AMD integrating Xilinx tech, pushing software development

AMD CEO says, ‘You should see us investing a lot more in software.’

Intel's Gelsinger predicts chip shortage will run through 2024

Intel CEO linked ongoing chip shortage to a lack of manufacturing equipment and difficulty building semiconductor fabrication plants.

IBM announces first major update to Power9 servers in three years

The scale-out servers are descendants of the AS/400 mid-range server dating back to the 80s.

Gartner: Hybrid work helps boost use of cloud services

As enterprises move beyond pilot stages of cloud use, they will spend close to $500B worldwide this year, Gartner projects.

Arm launches new IoT processors

Arm's Cortex-M85 micro controller will support internet of things devices while the Corstone-1000 supports AI at the edge.

Alibaba, Microsoft launch Arm-based cloud instances

The Arm processor isn’t setting the world on fire on regular servers, but it does seem to have found a home in the cloud.

Deloitte and VMware announce cloud-services practice

A partnership between VMware and Deloitte is designed to help shepherd enterprises through the process of deploying distributed-cloud architectures.

Fujitsu cloud service is based on Arm chips used in the world's fastest supercomputer

Fujitsu Cloud Service HPC will cater to demanding workloads and provide consulting to tune the service to individual customers.

HPE tests gear at the ultimate edge: Space

HPE supercomputer on the International Space Station processes data on site, sorts, and compresses it to save time sending to Earth.

Intel claims sustainability for its custom chip that mines bitcoins faster than GPUs

Intel's Blockscale ASIC designed specifically for blockchain hash operations with greater power efficiency is available this fall.

New Oak Ridge supercomputer outperforms the old in a fraction of the space

Enterprises may not need supercomputers, but regularly upgrading the computing gear they do use can improve speed and power consumption.

Nvidia CEO says he is open to using Intel for chip fabrication

It will take a few years, and a lot of negotiation, but the thawing relations between Intel and Nvidia could help ease processor supply issues.

Nvidia announces server 'superchips,' with and without GPUs

Nvidia's Grace superchips cater to AI as well as legacy high-bandwidth applications not optimized for GPUs.

Nvidia introduces Spectrum-4 platform for AI, HPC over Ethernet

Based on a new ASIC, DPU, smartNIC, and SDK, Nvidia ups the speed and efficiency of its switching platform.