Fred Buining

CEO & Managing Director HIRO-MicroDataCenters

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

The #eucommission commitment to Edge computing technology R&D is impressive. Together with their legislative suppor, the EC is providing European industry with the means to achieve digital sovereignty. European OEM’s have now fair opportunities to succeed…https://t.co/vIRYot6Juv

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

The Glaciation project will not only align with the AI act. HIRO being an ‘edge as a service’ provider, we participate in Glaciation because we believe this type of AI driven technology will be instrumental for managing your data across data spaces and ea…https://t.co/ovPvB1VwPu

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

Big Data at the Edge, using an AI enabled knowledge graph to move the data to the best storage places on the edge-to-edge continuum (#Glaciation project). Using AI for network, edge services data management (#Verge project). Happy…https://t.co/ZTdVz0ZeHC https://t.co/06VbqTRKcx

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

Imagine a future world where you are immersed and served by personalised, far reaching, emergent intelligence created from local intelligence in devices, networks and activities surrounding you. 6G will drive this “Internet of Intelligence” and at our EUC…https://t.co/IttxyMLpk3

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

Imagine a future world where you are immersed and served by personalised, far reaching, emergent intelligence created from local intelligence in devices, networks and activities surrounding you. 6G will drive this “Internet of Intelligence” and at our EUC…https://t.co/EET0xMbat0

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

The domino effect of climate change> public opinion>government policies>industries starts to kick in and Industry leaders fear for the profit margins and business models. Right so, the world needs change. https://t.co/6NJOEKHH6W

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

‘A roadmap to responsible AI development’. Beside the global awe over AI, regulation bodies play catch-up and developers and scientists are focussed on the technological progress. I sense there is a large responsibility for system…https://t.co/EBAAoVR5DS https://t.co/Dz4zilkhvO

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

Horizon Europe wants SME’s to join R&D programs, and rebuild Europe’s ICT value chain (#KDTJU), but fails to protect them from the negligence some large corporations have for SME needs. European funding is a crucial lifeline for innovative SME’s, yet a se…https://t.co/KJTJBg2NCo

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

Leaving the cloud, and doing the math. It equires rebuilding some capabilities internally. It not only saves substantially but also creates an opportunity to govern your data, protect your intellectual property, etc. https://t.co/sM1WwuNVsn

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

Special status to hire top talent from outside of Europe ! Happy to announce HIRO today officially (by immigration services IND assisted by RVO) got recognition as ‘erkend referent’ in Holland. This allows HIRO to hire top talent from outside the EU and g…https://t.co/zIcp8PKWwr

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

next-gen data centers are the convergence of network systems and software-defined facilities that are tuned for remote management. As a result, data intelligence and analytics take center stage to make operation, troubleshoot, repair, and maintenance mor…https://t.co/rFkPbdkKwk

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

#SYCLOPS (2023-2026): We start the start the SYCLOPS project, a 3 years and 5M EU funded R&D project. The vision of SYCLOPS project is to enable better solutions for AI/data mining for extremely large and diverse data by democratizing AI acceleration usin…https://t.co/Q5U60i73Gb

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

#VERGE (2023-2026): We start the VERGE project, a 3 years and 6.5M EU funded R&D project, that will tackle evolution of edge computing from three perspectives: “Edge for AI”, “AI for Edge” and security, privacy and trustworthiness of AI for Edge. A flexib…https://t.co/Q5jTPaS12z

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

HIRO-MicroDataCenters innovativeness stretches from chip level to rack level, over hardware and software, directed towards creating a powerful autonomous edge infrastructure able to deliver edge as a service. Our continues appetite…https://t.co/zJrkty2KkJ https://t.co/CCktifkfKh

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

#ACES (2023-2026): We are starting the ACES project, a 3 years and 8M EU funded R&D project, to develop Cognitive Intelligence (AI) that continuously optimises the utilisation of distributed federated edge infrastructures e.g. Edge MicroDataCenters (EMDC'…https://t.co/fVRMp78NGQ

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

The Edge will become much more fine-grained and complex, at levels where the economies-of-scale business models of big datacenters, hyperscalers and large platform providers, are not profitable. Although we are still at the beginni…https://t.co/A3vMg8FETI https://t.co/3jbnLc1YD1

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

The biggest financial game changer for climate change, renewable energies and Industry. Let's hope that Europe is able to keep up with new regulation and incentives, otherwise US based energy intensive Industry (especially Cloud pr…https://t.co/sZ52UX8hYK https://t.co/odpkPgMWUH

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

#Glaciation: We are starting the Glaciation project, a 3 years and 8M EU funded R&D project, to develop a tool that continuously keeps your data at the storage sweet spot between data producers and data consumers. Did you know that of the 79 zettabytes of…https://t.co/6t13ctqMU4

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

Finally we are showing up on the list of solution providers, even though micro servers are not our core business, but are a core technology of our Edge micro data centres. Still important to be mentioned (thank you Subham) since HI…https://t.co/yV53FQqOKu https://t.co/oyMxuUm53K

[Fred Buining @SmallFormFactor]

43% of data centre outages are caused by power failures, causing downtime and financial loss. The single biggest cause of power incidents is uninterruptible power supply (UPS) failures.
(Uptime’s 2022 Data Centre Resiliency Survey)…https://t.co/4oEhiE8NYH https://t.co/zzU2moLpbB