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Quick Take: IBM’s Storage Assurance Program

Steve McDowell May 4, 2024

IBM announced its new IBM Storage Assurance program. IBM’s new IT lifecycle management option aims to maximize performance and provide clients with enhanced choice and control within the data center.

Quick Take: Sygnia & NVIDIA’s Edge Security Play

Steve McDowell May 3, 2024

Sygnia and NVIDIA announced a strategic collaboration to enhance cybersecurity in the energy and industrial sectors using AI-powered edge solutions. The aim is to directly improve data collection, threat detection, and response capabilities at the edge of industrial and critical infrastructure networks.

Sovereign Cloud Explained

Steve McDowell May 1, 2024

As enterprises increasingly migrate to the cloud, ensuring that data remains secure, private, and within legal jurisdictional boundaries is paramount. Sovereign cloud solutions have emerged as a pivotal technological innovation designed to address these complex requirements.

Amdocs Survey Says: Telecom Slow to Embrace Generative AI

Steve McDowell April 30, 2024

Amdocs, one of the giants in the telecommunications industry, together with analytics company Analysys Mason, released the results of a global survey of communications service providers to understand how generative AI impacts those CSPs. The results were surprising.

While the IT industry rapidly embraces generative AI to understand and manage infrastructure, telecom is moving much more slowly. The Amdocs survey showed that less than a quarter of CSPs use GenAI today. The surprising statistic is that nearly half of the respondents haven’t even begun exploring the technology.

Nvidia And Dell Build An AI Factory Together

Steve McDowell April 30, 2024

At last month’s Nvidia GTC conference, Dell Technologies unveiled the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, a comprehensive set of enterprise AI solutions aimed at simplifying the adoption and integration of AI for businesses.

Dell also announced enhancements to its flagship PowerEdge XE9680 server, including options for liquid-cooling, which allows the server to deliver the full capabilities of Nvidia’s newly announced AI accelerators.

AWS And Nvidia Expand AI Relationship

Steve McDowell April 29, 2024

At the Nvidia GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia and Amazon Web Services made a series of wide-ranging announcements that showed a broad and strategic collaboration to accelerate AI innovation and infrastructure capabilities globally.

The joint announcements included the introduction of Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances, Nvidia DGX Cloud integration, and, most critically, a pivotal collaboration called Project Ceiba.