Global Stories

AccountsIQ secures Series C investment of EURO €60 million

AccountsIQ has secured a Series C investment of EURO €60 million from Axiom Equity to develop AI-powered products, expand its team, and enhance AI capabilities for its users.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Tue, 18th Jun 2024

EduTech

Sustainable Metal Cloud achieves record AI efficiency with new tech

Sustainable Metal Cloud's AI platform, using Firmus Technologies' immersion cooling, achieves 50% energy savings, advancing AI efficiency in MLPerf benchmarks.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Fri, 14th Jun 2024

Hybrid Cloud

Lenovo unveils ThinkSystem V4 to make AI more accessible

Lenovo's ThinkSystem V4 portfolio, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, aims to democratise AI for businesses, enhancing workflow implementation, security, and efficiency.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Tue, 11th Jun 2024

Network Infrastructure

AMD announces ambitious AI accelerator roadmap and annual update cycle

At Computex 2024, AMD CEO Dr Lisa Su unveiled an aggressive expansion of their Instinct accelerator roadmap, featuring the MI325X, MI350, and MI400 series aimed at revolutionising AI in data centres.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 4th Jun 2024

High Performance Computing

Tech giants form Ultra Accelerator Link Promoter Group for AI

Top tech giants form the UALink Promoter Group to set an industry standard for high-speed, low-latency AI data centre communication, enhancing efficiency and scalability.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 4th Jun 2024

Unified Communications

NVIDIA explains how NIMs will revolutionise generative AI deployment

At COMPUTEX 2024, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has unveiled more details of the development building blocks they're calling NVIDIA NIMs.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Tue, 4th Jun 2024

Generative AI

Cloudera acquires Verta AI to enhance enterprise AI capabilities

Cloudera acquires Verta Operational AI Platform to enhance its AI capabilities and meet the rising global demand for advanced AI solutions.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 4th Jun 2024

Unified Communications

Dell expands AI Factory with NVIDIA for advanced innovation

Dell Technologies expands its AI Factory with NVIDIA, launching new servers and services to accelerate AI innovation, including the high-density PowerEdge XE9680L.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Tue, 21st May 2024

Artificial Intelligence

NetApp study highlights role of data infrastructure in scaling AI

A NetApp study, in conjunction with IDC, emphasises the criticality of intelligent data infrastructure for successful AI scaling within businesses.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 8th May 2024

Power / Energy

Norwegian firm Nscale pioneers sustainable GPU cloud with renewable energy

As Norway's Nscale employs AMD's tech and renewable energy to offer high-performance, sustainable GPU cloud services, it aims to transform the face of accelerated computing globally.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Mon, 6th May 2024

Supply Chain

Intel unveils Hala Point, world's largest neuromorphic system

Intel's Hala Point, the world's largest neuromorphic system with 1.15 billion neurons, will elevate brain-scale computing research at Sandia National Labs and optimise telecoms via Ericsson Research.

By Tom Raynel • 3 min read • Thu, 18th Apr 2024

Private Cloud

Vultr launches sovereign & private clouds amid global data concerns

In response to growing global concerns about data sovereignty, cloud computing giant Vultr has launched Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud, promising data compliance and control for governments and enterprises worldwide.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 11th Apr 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Intel unveils new initiatives to accelerate AI in PCs by 2025

Intel has announced two new initiatives to boost the AI PC Acceleration Program, targeting to upscale AI capabilities on over 100 million Intel-based PCs by 2025.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 27th Mar 2024

Platform-as-a-Service

Vultr unveils serverless platform to accelerate global AI deployment

Vultr introduces Cloud Inference, a serverless platform designed to optimise AI application deployment and scalability across 32 international locations, enhancing cost efficiency and reducing latency.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Wed, 20th Mar 2024

Hyperscale

VAST Data partners with NVIDIA & Supermicro for AI infrastructure

VAST Data has teamed up with tech providers NVIDIA and Supermicro to meet growing demand for AI-ready infrastructure with an innovative data platform. The collaborations offer scalable, future-proof solutions to partners.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Mar 2024

Storage

VAST Data unveils new AI cloud architecture & partnerships ahead of NVIDIA conference

VAST Data has revealed a new data centre architecture and partnerships ahead of NVIDIA's GTC conference, setting a new approach to AI cloud architecture and promising improved efficiency, security, and scalability for AI services.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Thu, 14th Mar 2024

Stories from Other Regions

Digital Transformation

BNI collaborates with Cloudera for AI-driven transformation

Bank Negara Indonesia has partnered with Cloudera to revolutionise its operations through generative AI, enhancing productivity and customer experience.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Wed, 26th Jun 2024