Datanami - No matter how sophisticated information technology gets – and who can deny that IT is evolving exceptionally fast these days – there’s nothing that can replicate the combination of two unique pieces of data: Time and place.

IBM Cloud computing news - When you look at the rapidly evolving infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market, you might get the impression that it’s a race to the bottom with commodity hardware, inexpensive storage options, ongoing price cuts and the like.

The Next Platform - It is not news that offloading work from CPUs to GPUs can grant radical speedups, but what can come as a surprise is that scaling of these workloads doesn’t change just because they run faster.

RTInsights - The GPU has been around since “Space Invaders” — but it’s now capable of visualizing billions of data points in real time.

The Next Platform - Todd Mostak, the creator of the MapD GPU-accelerated database and visualization system, made that database because he was a frustrated user of other database technologies, and as a user, he is adamant that accelerating databases and making visualization of queried data is about more than just being a speed freak.

datanami - The availability of Nvidia K80s on AWS will be a turning point, MapD founder Todd Mostak wrote in a blog post last week.

Mapbox Blog - MapD, a GPU-powered database that uses Mapbox for its visualization layer, made it possible to quickly and easily interact with the data

Business Wire - New GPU instance type offers the most processing power available in the cloud for artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and big data processing

InfoWorld - Tired of slow joins and poky graph analytics? These database solutions use GPU acceleration for faster answers

Business Insider - The common narrative when it comes to financial technology startups is that they pose an existential threat to established players.