March 19, 2019
Aurora, the planned Department of Energy supercomputer, will be three powers of 10 faster than the current fastest supercomputer when it is delivered to Argonne National Laboratory in 2021. Read more â¶
Data center giants announce new high-speed interconnect
The noise in fiber could be used to increase data capacity
Exec: How SDN, SD-WAN, security fit in VMware's strategy
Nvidia grabs Mellanox out from under Intelâs nose
How did Facebook go down despite multiple data centers?
Cisco spreads AI across WebEx meetings
Micro Data Centers Evolve to Fit New Business Requirements of Edge Computing
The Secret? LTO Tape Storage with LTFS. Discover how media and entertainment companies are innovating an improving production, post-production, distribution, and archival data strategies. Read more â¶
Intel, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, HPE, Cisco, Dell-EMC, Huawei and Alibaba join forces to create Compute Express Link, a high-speed interconnect for chip-to-chip communication. Read more â¶
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One normally wants to get rid of noise in data links, but scientists at ETH Zurich say you can harness it to increase the capacity of fiber-optic cables. Read more â¶
VMware networking and security chief Tom Gillis looks at competing with Cisco and how the company will bolster NSX and more. Read more â¶
GPU leader Nvidia is buying networking company Mellanox for $6.9 billion, further cementing Nvidia company as a data center player. Read more â¶
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Cisco WebEx has integrated AI collaboration technologies it acquired from Accompany and MindMeld. Read more â¶
Recent breakthroughs in technology have expanded the possibilities for where data is gathered, processed, stored and analyzed. IT staffs and their business counterparts now have the flexibility of deciding whether their applications are more efficient residing in the cloud, within a traditional data center, or on the network edge. Read more â¶
Check out the Spring 2019 digital issue of CIO. Read more â¶
