
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
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.
Storage in the ever-expanding HPC space has traditionally been based on temperature. …
Lowering The Temperature Of HPC Storage Tiering was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It was just over a year ago that the RISC-V Foundation, the group shepherding the chip architecture in what over the past decade has become an active and crowded processor market, ratified the base instruction set architecture (ISA) and related specifications. …
Alibaba On The Bleeding Edge Of RISC-V With XT910 was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Raja Koduri has been in the thick of the past two eras of computing, which were marked by – among other things – the ability to architect systems and software that helped to get more performance into the hands into increasing numbers of people. …
Building A Better Machine For An AI World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is easy to understand the lure of the public cloud’s siren call. …
The Style Of Cloud Networking In The Corporate Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Four years ago, VMware and Amazon Web Services announced a partnership in which VMware customers would be able to run their virtualized data center environments on AWS instances. …
The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
To Patricia Harris – like most people in the rapidly changing worlds of IT and business – data is central to what she does. …
Squeezing Every Drop Of Value Out Of Data was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As we’ve talked about in the past, the focus on data – how much is being generated, where it’s being created, the tools needed to take advantage of it, the shortage of skilled talent to manage it, and so on – is rapidly changing the way enterprises are operating both in the datacenter and in the cloud and dictating many of the product roadmaps being developed by tech vendors. …
An Architecture for Artificial Intelligence Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise in January created its Transformation Office with an eye toward accelerating its move to become a platform provider – complete with hardware, software, services and other components – with a reach from the datacenter out through the cloud and to the fast-growing edge computing environment. …
HPE Builds Out GreenLake Utility, Creates Ezmeral Software was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.