Jeffrey Burt, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/jeffrey/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:13:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Jeffrey Burt, Author at The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/author/jeffrey/ 32 32 86113652 German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:45:06 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145314 The quantum computing space is replete with big-name companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel touting incremental but important steps they’re taking to bring the long-promised technology to the fore. …

German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/feed/ 0 145314 HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:07:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145300 Hewlett Packard Enterprise last summer introduced the first of its Gen12 ProLiant systems, packed with Nvidia’s latest GPU accelerators and aimed squarely at the rapidly expanding AI space that in less than two years went from prompt-and-respond chatbots to AI agents that can reason, plan, and collaborate on their own. …

HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/feed/ 0 145300 The Coming Age Of The Internet Of Agents https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/28/the-coming-age-of-the-internet-of-agents/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/28/the-coming-age-of-the-internet-of-agents/#comments Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:19:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145227 Almost a year ago, executives, researchers, and developers within the Outshift group of Cisco Systems – an incubation unit focused on such advanced technologies as AI and quantum computing – began batting about the idea of a network infrastructure connecting vast numbers of AI agents from multiple vendors or organizations, allowing those AI agents to automatically communicate, work together, and solve complex problems for enterprises. …

The Coming Age Of The Internet Of Agents was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/28/the-coming-age-of-the-internet-of-agents/feed/ 1 145227 Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/16/using-nim-guardrails-to-keep-agentic-ai-from-jumping-to-wrong-conclusions/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/16/using-nim-guardrails-to-keep-agentic-ai-from-jumping-to-wrong-conclusions/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:31:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145191 AI agents are the latest evolution in the relatively short life span of generative AI, and while some organizations are still trying to figure out how the emerging technology fits in their operations, others are making strides into agentic AI. …

Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/16/using-nim-guardrails-to-keep-agentic-ai-from-jumping-to-wrong-conclusions/feed/ 1 145191 Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:13:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145187 Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023 and the subsequent changes to venerable virtualization company’s business model and pricing have rankled many long-time enterprise users, a situation that has been highly publicized despite assertions by Broadcom and VMware executives that such reports are little than FUD – short for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. …

Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-woos-vmware-shops-with-openshift-virtualization-engine/feed/ 1 145187 A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/a-novel-way-to-compact-data-for-more-efficient-storage-and-transmission/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/a-novel-way-to-compact-data-for-more-efficient-storage-and-transmission/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:16:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145175 IT companies have spent billions of dollars creating ways to move data more efficiently and cheaply in an increasingly distributed world of on-premises datacenters, multiple clouds, and the edge. …

A Novel Way To Compact Data For More Efficient Storage And Transmission was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/10/a-novel-way-to-compact-data-for-more-efficient-storage-and-transmission/feed/ 3 145175 Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/#comments Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:01:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145157 For years, scientists in the field of molecular dynamics have been squeezed in their research. …

Gordon Bell Prize Awarded To Molecular Dynamics-Quantum Mechanics Mashup On “Frontier” Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/19/gordon-bell-prize-awarded-to-molecular-dynamics-quantum-mechanics-mashup-on-frontier-supercomputer/feed/ 2 145157 GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/12/genai-races-ahead-but-enterprises-are-still-at-the-starting-line/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/12/genai-races-ahead-but-enterprises-are-still-at-the-starting-line/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:34:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145129 The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. …

GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/12/genai-races-ahead-but-enterprises-are-still-at-the-starting-line/feed/ 4 145129 Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/09/google-claims-quantum-error-correction-milestone-with-willow-chip/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/09/google-claims-quantum-error-correction-milestone-with-willow-chip/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:00:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145107 There is no shortage of top-name – and even lesser known – companies pursuing the white whale of developing a quantum computer that can run workloads and solve problems that today’s most powerful classical computers simply can’t. …

Google Claims Quantum Error Correction Milestone With “Willow” Chip was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/09/google-claims-quantum-error-correction-milestone-with-willow-chip/feed/ 2 145107 HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/21/hpe-greenlake-platform-gets-expanded-storage-and-custom-kvm-hypervisor/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/11/21/hpe-greenlake-platform-gets-expanded-storage-and-custom-kvm-hypervisor/#respond Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:54:12 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145032 When Fidelma Russo looks at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake, she sees a rapidly expanding platform that like others is trying to keep pace not only with the growing demands of organizations that are continuing to adopt the cloud but also are looking for ways to bring in and deploy emerging AI technologies. …

HPE GreenLake Platform Gets Expanded Storage And Custom KVM Hypervisor was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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