When Scott Fulton looks at the data center, HPC, infrastructure and next gen architecture, he focuses on the big picture.
A solution to maintaining connectivity for thousands of microservices in a network, may have come just in time, or even a moment too late for some. Yet just behind it may be another solution to the traffic jam it’s expected to cause.
In October, Google claimed its quantum computing chip became capable of processing a task that, for an ordinary supercomputer, would be virtually impossible. Google should have expected IBM to take that as a challenge.
The Internet has always relied upon DNS as its “phone book” to locate Web sites, corporate domains, and Web services. In a world dominated by microservices, all that might actually have to change.
Selection algorithms everywhere are exhibiting traits that appear to be racist, sexist, and otherwise discriminatory. Have neural networks already developed their own neuropathy? Or are people somehow the problem?
There are many things people can do to advance the cause of humankind and push the boundaries of knowledge. But at some point, they’d better earn you a buck or two. Can a quantum computer really be a cash cow?
Chemical engineers at UCLA have been demonstrating what they argue is scientific evidence that bunches of synthetically grown nanowires exhibit behaviors similar to that of memory in a living brain. Whether you believe their claim depends on what you think memory actually is.
Micro data centers at the edge of the wireless network were first considered a way for telcos to earn some extra revenue. Now they’re being leveraged to solve a deeper, darker problem: managing backhaul.
One day you’re in, declares Heidi Klum’s prophecy, and the next day you’re out. Microsoft Windows may matter less to the modern world today. That’s fine, because there are other issues deserving our attention.
What most clearly distinguishes a 5G installation from a 4G or a 3G when you look at it, may itself be endangered. Equipment manufacturers, fearing they may earn less revenue from producing cheaper equipment, promote something else instead - something that looks more like 3G than 5G.
Where we review the epic struggle to capture and remake data warehouses, in the context of a world that doesn't appear to be aware such a struggle exists, and may never have seen it as all that epic.
Where the realities of maintaining a multi-terabit-per-second network mandate a new way of approaching the problem of orchestrating network services. By the time we're done, will we still have servers as we know them? And where will the edge actually be?
Where the relocation of application intelligence from a client-side device to a centralized cloud sounds so much like a good idea that telecommunications engineers begin to ponder: Is this something we could have been doing with every mobile or embedded device all along?
Where the world's network operators debate what benefits there may be from relocating network functions from their base stations to cloud data centers. NFV can achieve many goals, yet stakeholders are far from agreement over which goals take precedent.
In the cities and municipalities of America, people's fears and misunderstandings about the onset of 5G wireless come to a head. Now, lawmakers and public officials are being prompted to make sudden moves that could change everything.
The world may not be prepared for microwave mirrors, street light hot-spots, and towers visible from every backyard. But if 4G's business model keeps heading the way it's heading, 5G may be the only alternative.
Networking
Down an invisible road: Service mesh’s unpaved path to practicality
Processors
The quantum supremacy enigma: Can Google’s claim withstand scrutiny?
Artificial Intelligence
Innovation
Quantum as a service: How to product-ize a hole in space and time
Edge Computing
The edge takes shape: The 5G telco cloud that would compete with Amazon