DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Will Calvert, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Alibaba develops its first AI and IoT chip, based on RISC-V architecture
Helping decrease China's dependence on foreign-designed chips
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Google to buy enterprise cloud storage provider Elastifile
Bolstering Google Cloud's enterprise ambitions
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Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion
The deal is expected to close halfway through 2020
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Cisco releases patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its Data Center Network Manager
The two flaws, which registered at 9.8 out of 10 on Cisco's Common Vulnerability Scoring System, have now been patched
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VMware to acquire Avi Networks
In a bid to create the industry's first fully software-defined networking stack
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Cray to build first exabyte storage solution for Frontier supercomputer
Capable of four times the storage capacity of Summit
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Intel to acquire programmable chipmaker Barefoot Networks
The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2019
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Report: IBM to cut 1,700 jobs
Amid $34 billion Red Hat acquisition
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Google Cloud to acquire data analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion
Thomas Kurian's first major acquisition since becoming CEO of Google Cloud
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Lenovo to lay off 500 employees globally, data center division hit hard
20 percent of the company's data center arm could go
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Marvell to acquire Avera Semiconductor for $650 million
The recently created Avera used to be IBM's microelectronics business
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Atos launches AI edge server BullSequana Edge
Built for real-time processing and analysis
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AWS release super slow S3 Glacier storage, new instances and deep learning containers
If you have a petabyte of data stored on AWS' S3 Glacier Deep Archive it can take up to 48 hours to retrieve
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Microsoft launches Azure Stack HCI
Windows Server Software-Defined evolves
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SK Hynix demos ZNS SSD at OCP
The Zoned Namedspaces SSD will allow information to be stored based on what type of data it is
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AWS will offer Nvidia's T4 GPUs in its EC2 instances
T4 uses Nvidia's Turing architecture and features 2,560 CUDA cores and 320 Tensor cores
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US supercomputing spared from proposed Department of Energy budget cuts
But previous White House DOE budget proposals have been overruled
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Cumulus' Linux OS first to support Facebook's modular Minipack
The Linux based OS will be available pre-installed on Facebook's network hardware
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Intel, Google and others join forces for CXL interconnect
CXL is designed to create a high-speed, low latency interconnect between the CPU and workload accelerators
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Dell wins $231 million US Navy IT Contract
Dell will help the US Navy move its IT systems to the cloud as well as providing data center services
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Nvidia to acquire Mellanox for $6.9 billion
The deal is Nvidia’s largest acquisition in its history
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Google’s hybrid cloud platform is now in beta
Bringing Google Cloud software to your data center
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Google to buy cloud migration startup Alooma
The acquisition of the Israeli company could be seen as a way to catch up with Microsoft and Amazon
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Fujitsu is building a supercomputer for the University of Tokyo
The machine is expected to deliver up to 6.6 petaflops and should be operational by July 2019
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Amazon is breaking its renewable energy commitments, Greenpeace claims
A report by the environmental organization suggests that AWS has failed to live up to promises to power its data centers with 100 percent renewable energy
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NASA's $2.9 billion IT contract goes to Leidos
The company will be managing end-user services across all NASA offices for up to a decade
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SysGroup acquires Certus IT for $10.3 million
As part of a continued string of acquisitions
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Rigetti Computing opens public beta of its Quantum Cloud Service
The service, aimed at developers, could enable programs to run as much as 30 times faster than on web API models