Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
About 15 years ago, as Swami Sivasubramanian was making his way from grad school back into the working world, he saw that developers and builders at enterprises were being held back not by their skills or their ideas, but by their inability to access the technology needed to bring those ideas to the fore. …
Learning To Make The Machine Part Of AI Invisible And Easy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Peter Ungaro, senior vice president and general manager of HPC and mission critical solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and longtime CEO of supercomputer Cray before HPE bought the company for $1.3 billion in 2019, spoke with The Next Platform earlier this year about the dawning exascale era the world is about to step into. …
HPC Does A Cannonball Into HPE’s GreenLake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In a data-centric tech field that is shaped by emerging trends and technologies like artificial intelligence, analytics, greater mobility, and the Internet of Things (IoT), “optimization” has become a marching order for hardware and software makers. …
Bending The Hardware To Fit The Workload was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Surviving in an ever-evolving and fast-changing industry like IT requires companies to understand the landscape, see where the trends are going, and be willing to adapt to what’s happening in front of them. …
Nutanix Stretches Across The Hybrid Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are foundational to many of the modernization efforts that enterprises are embracing, from leveraging them to more quickly analyze the mountains of data they’re generating and automating operational processes to running the advanced applications – like natural language processing, speech and image recognition, and machine vision – needed by a broad array of industries, from financial services, agriculture, healthcare and automotive. …
Lenovo Spreads The AI Message Far And Wide was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The push by established datacenter tech vendors to get into the as-a-service game has accelerated in recent months, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the need by organizations to more quickly embrace cloud services to help them adapt to the suddenly shifted business model that features a more widely distributed workforce, which brings a truckload of security and management issues. …
Pure Expands Its As-A-Service Playbook was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For more than three decades, researchers have used a particular simulation method for molecular dynamics called Ab initio molecular dynamics, or AIMD, which has proven itself to be the method most accurate for analyzing how atoms and molecules move and interact over a fixed time period. …
Gordon Bell Prize Winners Leverage Machine Learning For Molecular Dynamics was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
From the time Kubernetes was born in the labs at Google by engineers Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie and then contributed to the open source community, it has become the de facto orchestration platform for containers, enabling easier development, scaling and movement of modern applications between on-premises datacenters and the cloud and between the multiple clouds – public and private – that enterprises are embracing. …
Taking Kubernetes Up To The Next Level was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The shift by enterprise IT vendors from hardware box makers to software and services vendors has been ongoing for several years as OEMs have looked to adapt to the rapid changes in a tech world that is becoming application- and data-centric. …
Modern Networks For An Increasingly Distributed IT World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For several years, IBM has been eyeing the hybrid cloud, remaking itself into a provider with the platform that can enable enterprises to more easily move their workloads and data between their on-premises datacenters and the public cloud, and the multiple public clouds they are using. …
OpenShift At The Center Of The Hybrid Cloud Storm was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For more than a decade, as they have watched the amount of data they are generating stack up and technologies like artificial intelligence and analytics come to the forefront, enterprises have turned an eye toward high performance computing equipment and tools to help them get a handle on all of it. …
Making HPC And AI More Accessible To Enterprises was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
If you can’t beat the cloud, you had better steal all of its best ideas. …
Like Other OEM Incumbents, Cisco Steals The Cloud Playbook was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As we at The Next Platform have talked about before, the once-clear line of delineation that has run between the hyperscale cloud services providers and the OEMs that for decades has made the systems for enterprise datacenters has faded. …
Dell Climbs To The Apex Of The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For more than a year, Dell Technologies has been putting together the pieces of its hybrid cloud strategy, a combination of its own hardware – in particular, the VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure appliance – and software and VMware technologies, including its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform and, more recently, the virtualization vendor’s Tanzu, a platform for Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native applications. …
Blurring The Lines Between Your Cloud And Their Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For a long time, datacenter compute has been the very picture of stability – Intel-based servers running enterprise workloads in central facilities. …
Navigating Through The Roiling Datacenter Waters was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AI is too hard for most enterprises to adopt, just like HPC was and continues to be. …
VMware Embraces Nvidia GPUs, DPUs To Drive Enterprise AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For Karan Batta, the much-talked-about wide adoption of cloud computing in the HPC space is really like a game of dominos. …
Oracle Makes Its Prognostications For HPC In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When Arm began its pursuit of the datacenter a decade ago, the idea behind offering a low-power architecture as an alternative to Intel and is Xeon product line made sense. …
Arm Expands Its Server Universe With Updated Neoverse Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For more than two decades, VMware has made its money sensing the direction that enterprise IT is going and getting there before they do with products to addressing their needs. …
VMware Bets On Enterprises Wanting Kubernetes And Virtualization Mashup was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For about a decade, Intel has sold GPUs, in recent years with its integrated CPU-GPU devices used in client and entry servers. …
Intel Puts Its Xe GPU Stakes In The Ground was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.