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When VMware Cloud on AWS was officially rolled out in August, the initial availability was only in the Western part of the U.S. Last week, the companies added the Eastern region and announced several new enhancements, including features for scale and recovery. …
French startup brings App Store model to the cloud for FPGAs
Nine years ago, Apple Inc. launched the iPhone App Store, despite the misgivings of none other than co-founder Steve Jobs. The tech legend originally wanted new software applications developed inside the web browser over concerns about security and bugs. By the first …
Startup creates new tools to let FPGA programmers fly
Intel Corp.’s field programmable gate array acceleration stack offers tremendous potential for developers to deploy applications and workloads at maximum performance. But there can be issues when software programmers try to build applications for hardware platforms, including the time it takes. One startup …
Accelerated processing teaches autonomous cars to drive in minutes
Speed is the name of the game in the processor world, and the latest competitive sprint down the innovation track involves field programmable gate arrays, known as FPGAs. Since Intel Corp. announced FPGA acceleration platforms operating with Xeon CPUs early last month, several …
Scientists mapping the Universe take on the ultimate big data challenge
Nearly every enterprise has plenty of data to process, but a group of scientists in England may be facing the ultimate challenge. They are researchers with the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, known as COSMOS, at the University of Cambridge, and their database …
HPE’s Synergy and OneSphere star in the big IT picture
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. introduced Synergy (combined compute, storage and network hardware in one chassis) two years ago, the company claimed it would sharply reduce data center costs and provisioning time. Now, DreamWorks Animation LLC, the legendary animation studio (home of “Shrek,” …
Amazon is an 800-pound gorilla that moves like a cheetah, says analyst
There are plenty of technology companies with hefty revenue, tens of thousands of employees and a sizable global customer base. There are also smaller, nimble firms with modest profits that can innovate fast and keep larger competitors scrambling to keep up. And …
Amazon would have been built on AWS, says Andy Jassy
The colossus that is now Amazon, with a stock price above $1,100 per share and over $4.5 billion in quarterly earnings, got its humble beginning in 1995 as a website that sold only books. Cloud computing at that time was a mere …
AWS calls out the competition, but can CEO Andy Jassy back it up?
Although Amazon Web Services Inc. has made plenty of news this week with a multitude of headline-grabbing announcements, much of the talk has surrounded Andy Jassy’s pointed remarks on Wednesday about competitors. The AWS chief executive officer delivered particularly sharp comments about …
Aruba, Nimble and incoming CEO could propel HPE forward
New leadership is coming to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. on February 1 when current Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman steps down and Antonio Neri (HPE’s current president) takes over. At first glance, it would appear that the company is trading a business and …