Rob Enderle

This week AMD released its latest Epyc 7Fx2 Processors, and they are performance beasts (with 50% lower cost of ownership). The Cloud companies mainly took interest because they focus on performance over almost everything else, and in AMD, they appear to recognize the performance value these processors represent.  Participating in the launch were the who’s […]

We are awash with fake news, and it is adversely impacting elections and people ranging from politicians to executives, to everyday people.  But the growing concern is what it will do to our increasing population of ever more capable artificial intelligence deployments.  Because these AIs are increasingly controlling the world around us. And while humans […]

I was going through my news this morning, and an alert caught my eye. According to the folks at Atlas VPN who have been monitoring the web, there are some terrifying statistics.  As is sadly always the case when a disaster happens, bad people move to take advantage of the related fear. Statistics For instance, […]

IBM had earlier announced they were pivoting the most potent Supercomputer in the world, Summit, to fight Covid-19. The result was that they have been able, with Oak Ridge Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, to screen 8,000 compounds to find out which ones were likely to mitigate Covid-19.  They were looking to see which […]

While we call our personal assistants, which are cloud-connected, a form of AI, in fact these AIs aren’t really “intelligent.”  They are scripted systems tied to the web with decent speech to text interfaces. The responses they provide, with some exceptions (like Amazon’s experimental conversation feature), are identical to what you would typically get if […]

I had an update from IBM’s AI Research unit spokesperson Lisa Amini this week, and she walked me through some of their work on automating AI creation.  This technology is under development, and it doesn’t yet have an announced date, but it could have a massive impact on being able to research significant scale problems […]

It is often hard to describe the importance of supercomputers.  We don’t touch them; the work they do often seems obscure and unimportant, like calculating the results of a galaxy collision billions of years in the future or understanding the Galaxy’s creation billions of years in the past.  These are essential machines for scientists trying […]

Qualcomm had a 5G update this month, and things appear to be going very well.  With over 45 OEMs launching phones and over 50 operators having already deployed 5G technology, things seem to be moving far faster than 4G did. Driving this rapid move is the fact that 5G is a bundle of technologies that […]

One of the most amazing products I’ve ever covered was EMC’s old VCE platform.  This platform resulted from a partnership between VMware, Cisco, EMC, and Intel (as a silent partner).  What made the platform amazing was that it was so good no one, other than those that deployed it, believed how good it was. It […]

While GeForce Now is a Cloud gaming platform, it has a secondary benefit to the market because it showcases the current performance limitations for a pure Cloud desktop service.   These limits are important because Enterprise Technology tends to move very slowly in comparison to consumer-focused technology, and for a good reason. But if that part […]