When Scott Fulton looks at the data center, HPC, infrastructure and next gen architecture, he focuses on the big picture.
Is it a crisis when a country holds a commanding lead in supplying a critical global market successfully manages to avoid disrupting that market amid a pandemic, and doesn’t have “United” in its name?
In the short term, demand for IT services has increased since the pandemic’s onset. In a way, that’s the problem: The economy may not be healthy enough to sustain these services’ essential providers.
It won’t be the tech economy you remember, with its Black Friday bargains, annual tech festivals, and star-studded rollout events. Are we ready to make our livings around what devices do come forth?
With the dawn of the small cell era apparently postponed, 5G stakeholders look to one of the newly ratified components of the 3GPP standard as a revenue stream: Say hello, telcos, to distributed cloud computing.
Before the pandemic, telcos pondered how to sell 5G fixed wireless so convincingly that consumers would willingly ditch their Wi-Fi routers. Now that Wi-Fi is everyone’s best friend, that strategy has pivoted completely.
The fate of nations may depend upon the contributions of brave patients willing to risk their lives for treatments and vaccines. The technology that supports them, like most everything else, has been ravaged by the pandemic.
In a future where human contacts will need greater protection, the driverless car could end up giving people greater control than they had before.
World leaders are being blamed either for ignoring the data belying the significance of the novel coronavirus, or paying too much attention to it. Perhaps it would help if neural networks made that data more relevant.
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.
Processors
The quantum supremacy enigma: Can Google’s claim withstand scrutiny?
Artificial Intelligence
China
The tech crisis that isn’t: China controls the world’s rare earth supply chains
Networking
Internet inside out: Kubernetes becomes the service delivery engine of the data center
Edge Computing
The edge takes shape: The 5G telco cloud that would compete with Amazon