
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Over the past several years, VMware has developed a sprawling portfolio of cloud capabilities that stretch from on-premises datacenters and private clouds out to the public cloud and increasingly into the edge environment. …
VMware Unifies Its Cloud Front was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first top-tier tech vendor to make the plunge, announcing that it planned to make its entire portfolio – all of its hardware as well as software – available as a service by 2022, leveraging its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform to answer the call to make the on-premises datacenter experience as cloud-like as possible. …
Why Not Networking As A Service? But How? was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When chip makers launch the latest additions of their datacenter processors, server OEMs have historically immediately or soon after followed with a rollout of the latest new or enhanced systems based on those offerings. …
Designing Servers In Rapidly Changing Times was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It has been a long time – more than 15 years – since AMD has been in a position to pressure larger rival Intel in supplying processors to server OEMs and ODMs for the datacenter. …
AMD’s Top Brass Take Another Swing At Intel With Milan Epycs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Managing infrastructure at Google is a lot more than just putting stuff into containers and letting Borg push it around. …
Keeping Infrastructure And Applications Humming Along Like Google was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Cybersecurity has never been easy. As the amount of business being done on the internet has grown, enterprises, smaller businesses, HPC institutions and other organizations have had to develop and embrace technologies designed to protect mission-critical data and applications from an increasingly sophisticated underworld of hackers, nation-states and other cyber-criminals. …
Taking On DARPA’s FHE Security Challenge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Having to install a new kind of systems software stack and create applications is hard enough. …
Tuning Up Nvidia’s AI Stack To Run On Virtual Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The promises of the cloud – from agility and scalability to reduced costs and easier access to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics – have been out there for more than a decade and enterprises are continuing to push more of their operations to such hyperscale providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. …
The Expedient Way To Build An Enterprise Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It was only two years ago that Cloudera, once one of the top vendors in what had been a white-hot Hadoop market, found itself fighting for survival. …
Cloudera Pivots To Data Management As Hadoop Fades was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The rapid adoption by enterprises of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments along with the rise of the Internet of Things, a much more remote workforce and other trends that have contributed to the increasingly distributed nature of modern IT has put the vast amounts of data that is being generated in a precarious position. …
IBM Leverages Cloud To Push The Encryption Envelope was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Intel in October clarified its memory plans moving forward when it announced it is selling its NAND memory business to SK Hynix in a two-step acquisition that is worth $9 billion and will take until 2025 to be completed. …
Being Persistent With Persistent Memory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
IBM knows how to adapt to an ever-changing enterprise tech landscape. …
Big Blue Shines A Light On The Future Of Tape Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
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.