Virtualization is the common thread connecting cloud computing, hybrid cloud, integrated systems and hyperconverged appliances. From its first appearance in the late 1960s (in IBM’s S/360 mainframes) to massive deployments of commoditized servers today, virtualization addressed a still-common problem—the wide […]
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Right now, the BlackBerry KeyONE is selling out in most markets. It has been doing so well they have come up with a special Black Edition, sadly after I got my own KeyONE (because I now want it), and customers
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Soon you will be able to buy yourself a shiny, new iPhone 8. If history is any indication of the timeline, preorders will start soon after Tim Cook and the Apple execs take to the stage to officially unveil the
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Even smart, successful people can get things very, very wrong. Take Apple CEO Tim Cook and the 2015 interview where he stated, “I think if you’re looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why
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This week AMD announced they had signed Lenovo and Sugon as OEM partners and Tencent and JD.com as datacenter customers in China as they roll their EPYC platform into China’s cloud market. Other firms supporting this launch are Acer, Asus,
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There is an old saying about people that don’t learn from history being destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. That may play out here as Apple considers spending a billion dollars to create their own media content. You
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and other computing forms that mimic human intelligence elicit so much interest and controversy that it’s easy to forget their reliance on highly complex and robust systems. That point underlies the breakthrough in Distributed Deep Learning (DDL)
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Compute performance is expressed most often in terms of benchmark tests, and the resulting gains new systems offer over previous generation solutions. But such analysis can benefit from situational details, like a ruggedized system’s ability to survive extreme temperatures, humidity
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HP has brought out two backpack computers, one for consumers wanting a far better gaming virtual reality (VR) experience, and one for engineers, designers, architects, graphics artists, and the military that want to be able to create simulations in real
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Microsoft continued to expand its influence in the world of cloud computing by joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a Platinum member. Microsoft’s participation and collaboration in open source projects is a win-win for Microsoft and Microsoft customers. Microsoft
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