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Source: Huawei. Huawei AI Fabric and Cisco's networking solutions in the AI/ML scenario (Based on the Tolly test report). Huawei has announced at the Huawei China Eco-Partner Conference 2019 that its AI Fabric Intelligent and Lossless Data Center Network solution has undergone comparison test and verification by the Tolly Group. The test results showed that, in typical service scenarios for data centres that are oriented to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, Huawei AI Fabric has superior performance to competitive networking solutions. Huawei's Global Industry Vision (GIV) predicts the AI adoption rates will reach 86% by 2025 — and that leveraging AI to make decisions, reshape business models and ecosystems, and rebuild customer experiences will be a key driving force for adoption. Additionally, AI will also drive ICT infrastructure transformation. Tolly tested the data centre switch networking solutions from Huawei and ...

SAS announced a partnership with NVIDIA last month to help businesses deploy artificial intelligence (AI). The companies are collaborating across machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing, with NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA-X AI acceleration libraries, to support the core elements of SAS' AI offerings – leading to faster, more accurate insights. "AI is transforming business across industries," said Gavin Day, SAS Senior VP of Technology. "At the heart of AI-based transformation is advanced analytics. Powerful GPUs help speed the analysis and impact of AI by processing millions of mathematical operations very quickly. By partnering with NVIDIA, we combine our strengths to augment human intelligence and realise the true potential of AI." In a discussion on data science at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference 2019 , Day said SAS is talking to customers around the world in major industries, trying to get AI and machine learning out ...