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Microsoft vet and ex-Beats by Dre CEO lead new hardware-focused Seattle startup studio

GeekWire

Amish Patel, left, and Susan Paley recently launched Conduit Venture Labs, a new startup studio for hardware companies. Conduit Venture Labs Photo) Key Takeaways Conduit Venture Labs is a new startup studio in Seattle that aims to create a portfolio of hardware companies.

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Docker for Smarties (e.g. non-dummies) from VMworld 2014

Storage IO Blog

Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.

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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley It is time we all began to focus more on the coming age of a totally networked, software-enhanced, continually enhancing, device enabled world. “You’ll see demonstrations of real networked products and participate in intensive colloquies with those leading us into this new era.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading: Deep learning in neural networks

All Things Distributed

In the past few years, we have seen an explosion in the use of Deep Learning as its software platforms mature and the supporting hardware, especially GPUs with larger memories, become widely available. Instead, we will be reading an excellent overview paper by Jürgen Schmidhuber of IDSIA from 2014. 2014.09.003).

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IDF 2014 Day 2 Recap

Scott Lowe

Following on from my IDF 2014 Day 1 recap , here’s a quick recap of day 2. First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Overall, another solid day at IDF 2014.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Day 1 Keynote.

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IDF 2014: Data Center Mega-Session

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the Data Center Mega-Session from day 2 of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 in San Francisco. Bryant then introduces Karl Triebes, EVP and CTO of F5 Networks, who takes the stage to talk about FPGAs in F5 and how the joint Xeon/FPGA integrated solution from Intel plays into that role. IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap.