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OpenStack Caracal Delivers Substantial New Capabilities as OpenStack Demand Skyrockets, Driven by AI Workloads and Users Seeking VMware Alternatives

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The OpenStack community today released Caracal ('keh•ruh•kal), the 29th version of the world's most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software. OpenStack is deployed globally by organizations comprising a multitude of sizes and industries, with more than 45 million cores in production. Recently, OpenStack has seen increasing demand among users who are hosting demanding artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, as well as by users who want to run virtualized workloads at a massive scale while avoiding the vendor lock-in nature of proprietary solutions.

Key Points: 
  • Currently, the big drivers of OpenStack demand are AI workloads and VMware users looking for alternative virtualization solutions, and the Caracal release includes improvements that will help in both of those areas.
  • OpenStack enables users to make great leaps in productivity through its support of AI and HPC workloads.
  • For example, Nova now supports vGPU live migrations, a big win for hardware enablement and accelerated workloads.
  • OpenStack Caracal makes several improvements in agility and performance, including the following:
    Designate now supports Catalog Zones (RFC 9432).

SUSE Strengthens Container Management Portfolio to Help Platform Engineering Teams Manage at Scale, Support AI/ML Workloads

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

"At SUSE, our commercial and open source users are equally important," said Peter Smails, general manager of the SUSE Enterprise Container Management business unit.

Key Points: 
  • "At SUSE, our commercial and open source users are equally important," said Peter Smails, general manager of the SUSE Enterprise Container Management business unit.
  • New capabilities in Rancher Prime 3.0 help platform engineering teams deliver self-service Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to their developer communities, and enhanced support for AI workloads.
  • SUSE is also introducing Rancher Enterprise, a single package and price for the entire portfolio of Rancher Prime including multi-cluster management, OS management, VM management, persistent storage, and SUSE's certified Linux OS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro.
  • SUSE continues to invest in open source innovation across its entire cloud native portfolio to support its large community of users.

SUSE Strengthens Container Management Portfolio to Help Platform Engineering Teams Manage at Scale, Support AI/ML Workloads

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

"At SUSE, our commercial and open source users are equally important," said Peter Smails, general manager of the SUSE Enterprise Container Management business unit.

Key Points: 
  • "At SUSE, our commercial and open source users are equally important," said Peter Smails, general manager of the SUSE Enterprise Container Management business unit.
  • New capabilities in Rancher Prime 3.0 help platform engineering teams deliver self-service Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to their developer communities, and enhanced support for AI workloads.
  • SUSE is also introducing Rancher Enterprise, a single package and price for the entire portfolio of Rancher Prime including multi-cluster management, OS management, VM management, persistent storage, and SUSE's certified Linux OS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro.
  • SUSE continues to invest in open source innovation across its entire cloud native portfolio to support its large community of users.

Global and China Automotive RISC-V Chip Industry Research Report 2024: Customized Chips May Become the Future Trend, and RISC-V will Challenge ARM

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Friday, March 15, 2024

DUBLIN, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Automotive RISC-V Chip Industry Research Report, 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • DUBLIN, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Automotive RISC-V Chip Industry Research Report, 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • In contrast, ARM and X86 are not only complicated in instruction set development, but also difficult to obtain authorization to modify instruction sets.
  • In terms of customization, it enables designers to create thousands of potential customized processors, thus speeding up the time to market.
  • In the past, automotive chips were mainly based on ARM or private architectures of some European chip companies.

Red Sift Doubles Down on Mission to Help Safeguard Retail and Hospitality Organizations from Brand Abuse

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Red Sift today announced that it has extended its partnership with The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC), doubling down on its mission to safeguard retail and hospitality organizations.

Key Points: 
  • Red Sift today announced that it has extended its partnership with The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC), doubling down on its mission to safeguard retail and hospitality organizations.
  • The shift to eCommerce has clear benefits for retail and hospitality businesses in today’s digital-first world, but it also expands their digital footprint.
  • Domain impersonation is one of the primary and most powerful techniques that bad actors leverage to abuse a brand.
  • “Red Sift’s collaboration with the RH-ISAC has significantly advanced our role in improving cybersecurity and protecting the retail and hospitality industry as a whole,” said Rahul Powar, CEO of Red Sift.

Intel Launches World’s First Systems Foundry Designed for the AI Era

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Intel Corp. (INTC) today launched Intel Foundry as a more sustainable systems foundry business designed for the AI era and announced an expanded process roadmap designed to establish leadership into the latter part of this decade.

Key Points: 
  • Intel Corp. (INTC) today launched Intel Foundry as a more sustainable systems foundry business designed for the AI era and announced an expanded process roadmap designed to establish leadership into the latter part of this decade.
  • (Credit: Intel Corporation)
    The announcements were made at Intel’s first foundry event, Intel Foundry Direct Connect, where the company gathered customers, ecosystem companies and leaders from across the industry.
  • “This is creating an unprecedented opportunity for the world’s most innovative chip designers and for Intel Foundry, the world’s first systems foundry for the AI era.
  • That’s why we are so excited to work with Intel Foundry, and why we have chosen a chip design that we plan to produce on Intel 18A process.”
    Intel Foundry has design wins across foundry process generations, including Intel 18A, Intel 16 and Intel 3, along with significant customer volume on Intel Foundry ASAT capabilities, including advanced packaging.

Introducing SmartX HCI 5.1, Full Stack HCI for Both Virtualized and Containerized Apps in Production

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

BEIJING, Sept. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartX had announced its upgraded hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio, SmartX HCI 5.1, which can provide unified computing, storage, network, and management support for virtualized and containerized applications in production environments.

Key Points: 
  • BEIJING, Sept. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartX had announced its upgraded hyper-converged infrastructure portfolio, SmartX HCI 5.1, which can provide unified computing, storage, network, and management support for virtualized and containerized applications in production environments.
  • With SmartX HCI 5.1, customers are able to drive IT infrastructure modernization and containerization with just one platform.
  • On top of the existing advantages such as flexibility, lightweight, and freedom of choice, SmartX HCI 5.1 improves on the following capabilities.
  • Unified High Performance and Stability in Production: Support mission critical applications and stateful applications in containers with one platform.

Cadence Digital, Custom/Analog Design Flows Certified and Design IP Available for Intel 16 FinFET Process

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced its digital and custom/analog flows are certified on the Intel 16 FinFET process technology and its design IP supports this node from Intel Foundry Services (IFS).

Key Points: 
  • Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced its digital and custom/analog flows are certified on the Intel 16 FinFET process technology and its design IP supports this node from Intel Foundry Services (IFS).
  • Customers can begin using the production-ready Cadence® design flows and design IP now to achieve design goals and speed time to market.
  • The complete Cadence RTL-to-GDS flow has been certified and optimized for use with Intel 16 technology, allowing customers to meet power, performance and area (PPA) targets.
  • Some of the Cadence flow’s capabilities for Intel 16 process rules have been enhanced, including via insertion and antenna rule support, which ensure high-quality designs.

Synopsys Delivers Certified EDA Flows and High-Quality IP for Intel 16 Process

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Easing the design of chips for power- and space-constrained applications, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its digital and custom design flows, powered by the Synopsys.ai™ full-stack AI-driven EDA suite, are certified for the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Intel 16 process. Used alongside high-quality Synopsys Foundation IP and Interface IP, which have been optimized for the same IFS technology, customers can confidently meet or beat design targets for advanced mobile, RF, IoT, consumer, storage and military, aerospace and government (MAG) systems. 

Key Points: 
  • SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Easing the design of chips for power- and space-constrained applications, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced its digital and custom design flows, powered by the Synopsys.ai™ full-stack AI-driven EDA suite , are certified for the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Intel 16 process.
  • "With our certified EDA flows and silicon-proven IP for the Intel 16 process, we are advancing the smart everything world with greater intelligence and connectivity."
  • "Mutual customers can achieve higher silicon utilization for their consumer, aerospace and government SoC designs using Synopsys EDA flows and IP on our Intel 16 technology."
  • The Synopsys Digital Design Family, Synopsys Custom Design Family and Synopsys Interface and Foundation IP are available now for advanced IFS processes.

Cloudsky Technologies Completes Series C+ Funding, Accelerating the Transformation of Computing into the Energy of the Digital Era

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Cloudsky Technologies is dedicated to becoming the next-generation computing infrastructure and services provider to empower the digital economy.

Key Points: 
  • Cloudsky Technologies is dedicated to becoming the next-generation computing infrastructure and services provider to empower the digital economy.
  • This enables it to meet the on-demand computing power requirements of various applications such as image rendering, AIGC, and autonomous driving.
  • Cloudsky Technologies has already achieved a leading position in GPU cloud computing domestically and is actively expanding its overseas market.
  • With its strong technical capabilities, robust computing network, and extensive deployment experience in the computing field, Cloudsky Technologies is well-positioned to lead the global computing industry.