DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Software, 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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Goonhilly Earth Station opens Cornwall, UK data center
The facility will be used for AI and machine learning applications and will be powered by on-site solar arrays
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Google to buy enterprise cloud storage provider Elastifile
Bolstering Google Cloud's enterprise ambitions
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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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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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Senators propose $2.2 billion in funding for US national AI strategy
Five research centers could be built to aid in AI education and to learn more about algorithmic bias
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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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Google launches cloud region in Zürich
Google's sixth cloud region in Europe will bring lower latency access to GCP customers in Switzerland
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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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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