Design

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Highlights

Western Digital's Long Trip from Open Standards to Open Source Chips

Aug 21, 2019

It started as a microprocessor pioneer in the 1970s. Now, the company is charting a new course in open source silicon.

Optical cables connected to a switch in a data center

Marvell, Nvidia, Arista Deals Repaint the Data Center Networking Landscape

Aug 20, 2019

Merchant silicon makes its way beyond white-box vendors, into traditional data center vendor portfolios.

Cerebras Systems' Wafer-Scale Engine chip

Semiconductor Startup Shows Off the World’s Biggest Processor

Aug 19, 2019

Cerebras' WSE chip for AI model training measures eight by eight inches, which according to the startup is 56x...

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How the New Azure Ultra Disk Storage Delivers On-Prem Latency in the Cloud

Aug 19, 2019

Designed for mission-critical applications like SAP Hana, it may suck more workloads out of enterprise data centers and into Azure.

Microsoft Makes More Machine Learning Advances

Aug 16, 2019

It's clear that enterprises are interested in making artificial intelligence and machine learning advances, but what's less obvious is how they can do so effectively.

Dell Joins AT&T to Move Edge Data Centers Wherever They Should Be

Aug 15, 2019

An extended partnership for Airship, which combines Kubernetes and OpenStack, could bring edge computing closer to the enterprise after all.

Edge Computing: AT&T Says the Edge Isn’t Where You Think It Is

Aug 14, 2019

As telcos race to 5G, one of the top ones questions feasibility – and utility – of edge computing at cell towers.

Black Hat 2019: Investment, Interest in AI for Security Ramps Up

Aug 14, 2019

An emphasis on AI was clear at this year’s Black Hat event in Las Vegas, where several vendors were promoting platforms that...

BGP Hijackings Take on New Meaning in Cybersecurity Climate

Aug 13, 2019

The Border Gateway Protocol is vulnerable to malicious actors -- and as of right now, little can be done about it from a...