This year, at the smallest VMware conference in many years, Broadcom made some important announcements. As we’ve previously discussed, VMware Cloud Foundation 9 was detailed, along with Tanzu Platform 10, an enhanced Edge Orchestrator platform, VeloCloud Software-Defined Edge, and more. Although we miss the community coming together at VMworld every year, this smaller VMware Explore conference is very much in line with the direction taken by Broadcom since their acquisition of the company. This and more on The Rundown.
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1:40 – AnandTech Shuts its Doors
After 27 years setting the standard for online tech journalism, AnandTech has published its last article. The popular tech news site, which was revered by industry insiders and tech enthusiasts, was known for impartiality, depth, and never sensationalizing the news. Although some were worried when founder and namesake Anand Lal Shimpi left for Apple, the site just continued to deliver excellent news coverage for decades. But it appears that the current owner, Future LLC (no relation to Gestalt IT parent Futurum) will cease publishing new articles on the site, thankfully keeping existing articles and forums online. The company also owns Tom’s Hardware, which will continue.
Read More: End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell
3:02 – Rumors Fly that Intel is Changing Course
The rumor mill is going wild that Intel’s financial troubles are about to knock the chipmaker off of Pat Gelsinger’s intended course. We’ve heard that next-generation chip fabrication isn’t going well, leading to an executive’s departure. Others say Intel is looking to spin off the fab business altogether, or perhaps sell the Altera FPGA business. All of this would be a significant departure from the plans set in motion by Pat Gelsinger.
Read More: Exclusive: Intel CEO to pitch board on plans to shed assets, cut costs, source says
6:43 – Cloud providers consuming all the GPUs for AI
While Dell, like other server vendors has experienced a huge growth in dedicated AI server sales there is a scarcity of Nvidia GPUs that is making delivering these servers hard. NVIDIA GPUs are being gobbled up by hyperscalers before they reach Dell and other OEMs. It may still be some time before we see the racks full of Dell PowerEdge XE9680L servers with Blackwell GPUs that Michael Dell mentioned at Dell Technologies world.
Read More: Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger than VMware Used to Be
9:54 – Hammerspace Pulls Out a Server
Hammerspace produces a respected data virtualization platform, enabling applications like AI training to access any data anywhere. One of the strengths of Hammerspace is that it is pure software, and can run just about anywhere. But now the company is announcing a partnership with reseller Arrow to ship a storage virtualization appliance based on Dell hardware.
Read More: Hammerspace Expands Global Data Platform with New Appliances
12:25 – AMD Is Ready to Take On NVIDIA
The latest MLCommons results just came out, and they sure make AMD look great! We have long speculated that AMD’s Instinct series is competitive with Nvidia’s best AI processing GPUs, and now there’s data that says exactly that. But Nvidia still has an incredible market share lead over the competition.
Read More: The First AI Benchmarks Pitting AMD Against NVIDIA
15:13 – California Readies an AI Kill Switch
The state of California is awfully worried about AI! The state legislature has overwhelmingly passed a bill requiring a so-called kill switch to all AI systems in case they get out of hand. Now it’s on to Governor Gavin Newsom, who is under pressure to veto the bill. But even if he does, there appears to be support in the state legislature to override his veto and make it law.
Read More: California legislature passes controversial “kill switch” AI safety bill
18:05 – A Smaller VMware Explore Still Delivers News
This year, at the smallest VMware conference in many years, Broadcom made some important announcements. As we’ve previously discussed, VMware Cloud Foundation 9 was detailed, along with Tanzu Platform 10, an enhanced Edge Orchestrator platform, VeloCloud Software-Defined Edge, and more. Although we miss the community coming together at VMworld every year, this smaller VMware Explore conference is very much in line with the direction taken by Broadcom since their acquisition of the company.
Read More: What’s Happened at VMware Explore 2024 Las Vegas?
28:02 – The Weeks Ahead
AI Field Day 5 – September 11 – 12
Edge Field Day 3 – September 18 – 19
Networking Field Day Exclusive with Nokia – September 24
AI Data Infrastructure Field Day 1 – October 2 – 3
Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day are now part of The Futurum Group.
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