Starting this January, IBM Corp. began working with the NATO Communications and Information Agency to help strengthen the Alliance’s cybersecurity posture. IBM is working with the organization to improve its security visibility and asset management across NATO enterprise networks. As part of the agreement, IBM Consulting has been tasked with building a customized solution that …
As enterprise workloads surge, driven by Moore’s law accelerating processor advancements, the demand for resilient storage solutions intensifies. To maintain sustained competitiveness, businesses require storage systems that can keep pace with the rapid expansion of computing capabilities. IBM Corp. is answering on the storage front with several new offerings, one of which is FlashSystem 5300. …
It’s not just about compute and storage for enterprises anymore. The lightning pace of innovation today demands agility, pushing large swathes of enterprise operations to the edge, where edge computing plays a crucial role in enabling real-time processing and decision-making. Given the mounting threats to valuable enterprise data, how can companies secure their networking infrastructures …
In another big week, we saw the artificial intelligence battles continue to escalate. Google LLC reorganized to better focus on AI, Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama 3 was released, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is doubling its manufacturing capacity for Nvidia Corp. high-end chips, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. got a $6.4 billion tranche of the chips act money, a Microsoft Corp. paper …
The landscape of enterprise computing is evolving when it comes to artificial intelligence, particularly in the integration of quantum computing and its implications for solving complex problems across various sectors. Industry leaders converged at SAS Innovate this week to discuss the technological advancements driving AI, business models, workflows and data utilization, including the cutting-edge advancements …
Google LLC today announced a $1 billion initiative to build new subsea internet cables in the Pacific and extend the region’s existing networking infrastructure. The first goal of the project is to build a new transpacific network link called Proa. According to the search giant, it will connect Japan with the U.S. territories of Guam …
The Paris-based open-source generative artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI today released another big large language model in an effort to keep pace with the industry’s big boys. The new Mixtral 8x22B model is expected to outperform the company’s previous model, Mixtral 8x7B. Many experts considered it to be an extremely worthy competitor to better-known contenders …
SiMA Technologies Inc., a startup that develops processors for industrial robots and other edge computing devices, has secured $70 million in fresh funding. The chipmaker detailed in its announcement of the round today that Maverick Capital was the lead investor. The round also included the participation of other institutional backers, among them Dell Technologies Capital, …
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s launching a new service aimed at the media and entertainment industries, designed to help those customers set up, deploy and scale massive graphics and visual effects rendering pipelines on its public cloud infrastructure. The new service is called AWS Deadline Cloud, and it was announced ahead of the …
Heading into the second half of 2023, some investors felt that the semiconductor runup last summer was a harbinger for a broader tech rally. That thesis proved prescient and rewarded managers who took on risk at the time with leading firms in semiconductors, security and enterprise software. The question is, where do we go from …