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Unveiling The Hidden Costs of HPC Storage
It is no surprise that the key criteria that organizations look for when shopping for high performance computing storage is performance. …
Unveiling The Hidden Costs of HPC Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
HPE’s Ungaro On Delivering Exascale For The Masses
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise finally closed on its $1.3 billion acquisition of supercomputer maker Cray in September, it was just over a month after the US Department of Energy announced Cray had completed a sweep in the country’s initial push into the exascale computing era. …
HPE’s Ungaro On Delivering Exascale For The Masses was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Dell Takes A Clean Sheet Approach To Flash Storage
Dell’s groundbreaking $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 was heralded by the vendor as a way to bring together two top-tier IT vendors with highly complementary parts to create an organization that could essentially provide for whatever technology needs their customers might have. …
Dell Takes A Clean Sheet Approach To Flash Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
OpenShift, Kubernetes, And The Hybrid Cloud
For all the talk of cloud computing for the past decade and a half, for all the growth that the hyperscale public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have undergone in recent years, these are still the early days of the cloud. …
OpenShift, Kubernetes, And The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Locking Down Linux For The Enterprise
Security has always been important for datacenter operators, but the days of putting a ring of protection around the datacenter and then walking away satisfied in the knowledge that the data and applications therein were protected from outside forces are long over. …
Locking Down Linux For The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Graphing The Coronavirus Pandemic
Since late February and early March, when the coronavirus outbreak began to spill out of China in earnest and spread its sickness and death across Europe, throughout the United States, and into other parts of the globe, IT companies have stepped up to lend their technologies to fight the pandemic. …
Graphing The Coronavirus Pandemic was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge
VMware burst onto the datacenter scene a little more than a decade ago, during the last big recession, when server virtualization appeared at exactly the right time when server spending was going to be seriously curtailed by economic forces. …
Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge
In the ever-evolving landscape that is the edge, applications are the driving force. …
Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic
Public-private partnerships are common when responding to national or international crises and the current coronavirus pandemic that is expanding around the globe is no different. …
A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Bringing 330 Petaflops Of Supercomputing To Bear On The Outbreak
IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are teaming with the White House, the US Department of Energy, and other federal agencies to bring a massive amount of supercomputing power and public cloud resources to scientists, engineers and researchers who are working to address the novel coronavirus global pandemic that is expected to bear down hard on the United States in the coming weeks. …
Bringing 330 Petaflops Of Supercomputing To Bear On The Outbreak was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Packet Puts An Edge on Equinix
In the end, what enterprises really want is a way to run any application on any cloud at any time. …
Packet Puts An Edge on Equinix was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Ceph Gets Fit And Finish For Enterprise Storage
Ceph, the open source object storage born from a doctoral dissertation in 2005, has been aimed principally at highly scalable workloads found in HPC environments and, later, with hyperscalers who did not want to create their own storage anymore. …
Ceph Gets Fit And Finish For Enterprise Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity
It’s been just more than a decade since Arm executives began to talk about bringing the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, which has long been the dominant design for processors found in billions of smartphones and other mobile device, into the datacenter. …
Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Bulking Up The File System for A World Of Clouds And Edges
The challenge of managing data is growing faster than the data itself is piling up, and that is bad except for the companies that can create new tools to manage it, either to use internally as the hyperscalers do or to sell to those who cannot fund such development and count on vendors to do it. …
Bulking Up The File System for A World Of Clouds And Edges was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Supermicro Plants A Flag At The Edge
In a short time, the edge has become the crucial third leg holding up the IT stool, joining traditional on-premises datacenters and the public clouds. …
Supermicro Plants A Flag At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sticking With Disks In An Increasingly All-Flash World
The growing number of and installations for all-flash storage arrays is hard to ignore. …
Sticking With Disks In An Increasingly All-Flash World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Continuum From Edges To Datacenters
Enterprise IT continues to cast its attentions – and sometimes its aspersions – out to the edge, that place outside of traditional datacenters and beyond that cloud where data is increasingly being generated and processed. …
The Continuum From Edges To Datacenters was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Softer Side Of Exascale
When talking about high-end HPC systems in the world, much of the attention often is paid to the massive supercomputers that are being developed by the likes of system makers Cray (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the main contractor on two exascale systems), Fujitsu, Atos, IBM, and others along with component makers Intel (which is a primary contractor on one exascale system), AMD, and Nvidia. …
The Softer Side Of Exascale was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Fundamental Disconnect Between Software Pricing And Moore’s Law
There are two major opposing forces in the datacenter that create tension in IT budgets. …
The Fundamental Disconnect Between Software Pricing And Moore’s Law was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sparking The Gap Between AI And DevOps
The term “AIOps” is getting a lot of work these days, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. …
Sparking The Gap Between AI And DevOps was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.