Compute
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three
We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …
Articles by Paul Teich
Connect
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
Cloud
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part One
Best of breed and vertical integration are two opposing forces that have been part of the datacenter since mainframes first fired up six decades ago in rooms with glass windows in them so companies could show off their technical prowess and financial might. …
AI
IBM Project Debater Speaks To The Future Of AI
The conversational AI created by IBM called Project Debater is designed to have a formal debate with a person. …
AI
Modernizing The Turing Test For 21st Century AI
To understand how far natural language processing (NLP) has progressed in the past decade and how fast it is evolving now, we need to update Alan Turing’s thought experiment on how to test an AI for conversational intelligence to a 21st Century context and methodology. …
Cloud
Containers Killed The Virtual Machine Star
We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
Compute
The Leading Edge Of Air-Cooled Servers Leads To The Edge
What if a hyperscale rack designer decided not to locally optimize legacy form factors for thermal management, but instead to start over and design a rack based on optimizing thermal efficiency? …
Compute
AI
Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor
Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. …
AI