In November 2023, the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab announced the deployment of the U.K.’s fastest AI supercomputer: Dawn Phase 1.1 Powered by the latest Intel GPUs and CPUs aboard liquid-cooled Dell servers, the Dawn supercomputer combines breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced high-performance computing (HPC) technology to help researchers solve the world’s most complex challenges…
CIOs and their IT teams — including operations/DevOps, site reliability engineering, and platform engineering — are charged with building and managing IT services that can provide near 100% uptime. When incidents do occur, they need to resolve them quickly. That’s a high bar, since a typical enterprise IT environment spans the cloud, edge, and hosted…
The history of IT operations (ITOps) can pretty much be summed up in one phrase: Do more with less. But for CIOs, additional expectations are often layered on top. While doing more with less, CIOs must also increase the value IT provides to the business, with new capabilities, improved reliability, and increased uptime. This is…
Regulators, investors, customers, and even employees are pushing companies to minimize the climate impact of their AI initiatives. Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. But AI users must also get over the urge to use the biggest, baddest AI models to solve every problem if they truly…
Stockholm-based Munters, founded in 1955, works across a wide range of industries to supply innovative and energy-efficient air treatment and climate solutions. Today, the company, with nearly 4,000 employees in 30 countries and 2022 net sales of SEK10.4 billion [$1 billion], is supplemented with more specific niche systems for data centers and food tech software…
In today’s dynamic, digitally evolving business landscape, establishing a strong foundation of trust within an organization is more vital than ever. In this article, we look at why trust is so critical in an enterprise and offer some key approaches for establishing a solid foundation of trust. Trust is critical and difficult to maintain In…
As Nelson Mandela opined, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Teachers and access to education play a crucial role in our future. Teachers educate the next generation by sharing knowledge, fostering critical thinking skills, managing parents, and developing children. At the same time, teachers face an increasingly difficult…
SAP is offering on-premises S/4HANA users a credit of 60% of their first year’s fees if they migrate to its all-in-one cloud-based offering, Rise with SAP. The credit, to be spent on other SAP services, should be enough to offset around half of the overall cost of a typical migration, according to Jan Gilg, the…
Corporate ESG reporting is getting real for companies around the globe. Enacted and proposed regulations in the EU, US, and beyond are deepening reporting requirements in an effort to change business behavior. What were once theoretical goals around environmental, social, and governance issues are rapidly evolving into mandatory efforts. The foundation for ESG reporting, of…
When we started this century the buzz in IT was “everything is going to have a chip.” Twenty-plus years in, CIOs have discovered that, when it comes to IT, everything is going to need a strategy. As CIO, you need a data strategy. You need a cloud strategy. You need a security strategy. If you…