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Oracle Exadata Exascale: Big architecture shift for small workloads

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Oracle’s recently announced Exadata Database Service on Exascale (ExaDB-XS) aims to improve performance for database workloads and reduce costs. The architecture in Exascale, which is Oracle’s multi-tenant architecture that intelligently allocates pools of compute optimised for its databases, is built on the same appliances – X8M, X9M and X10M – Oracle uses on its Exadata Database…

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Kioxia Demonstrates RAID Offload Scheme for NVMe Drives

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At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by…

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Intel’s next desktop CPU will reportedly be Nova Lake, leaving Panther Lake to mobile

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There have been plenty of rumors surrounding the upcoming Intel Panther Lake processor launch, including that it’s set to arrive in 2025. But now new rumors are painting a different story — one that confirms prior whisperings of Panther Lake being mobile-only and that a new series, the Nova Lake, will be Arrow Lake’s true…

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New version of Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card spotted with slower VRAM – here’s why that might just be a good thing

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Nvidia’s previously rumored new spin on the RTX 4070 – with slightly slower video memory – is apparently real, as a graphics card maker appears to have such a variant in the works.This is Galax which has a new RTX 4070 OC 2X version incoming, or at least that’s what leaked materials obtained by VideoCardz…

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Looking forward to Intel’s budget-minded Battlemage GPUs? They could be launching late 2024

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Rumors and reports for Intel’s upcoming Battlemage graphics cards have been steady since at least 2023, which, if true, could be a boon for gamers looking for more budget-minded components.Now there’s a brand new leak, shared on the Weibo forums by Chinese tech blogger Little Pigeon (reported on by VideoCardz), which alleges the new cards…

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Silicon Motion Demonstrates Flexible Data Placement on MonTitan Gen 5 Enterprise SSD Platform

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At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline – ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized for different stages of the…

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Excited for Intel’s next big chip reveal? Innovation event delay could mean you’ll be waiting for a while

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Intel’s ‘Innovation’ event is one of the cornerstones of the tech industry calendar, as if often sees the launch of upcoming desktop and laptop processors like the upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake chips. Unfortunately, we’ve got bad news: computing enthusiasts will be disappointed to learn that the event has been postponed until September 2025. In…

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Accountants predict AI-driven business surge

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed by many as a threat to white collar jobs, yet research from a UK-based think tank suggests that, used well, AI technologies could bolster both the economy and employment. The research was conducted by Demos, together with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and software supplier Sage.  Although the…

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Intel Postpones Innovation 2024 Event, Cites Poor Finances

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As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as the company looks to cut costs into 2025 – not even Intel’s trade shows. In an unexpected announcement this afternoon, Intel has begun informing attendees of…

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US lawmakers seek to brand ransomware gangs as terrorists

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United States lawmakers are mulling a new proposal to designate countries from which cyber criminal ransomware gangs operate as state sponsors of terrorism. The law forms part of the Intelligence Authorisation Act for the 2025 fiscal year, which is being brought forward by Mark Warner, a Democratic senator for Virginia, and chair of the Senate…

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