
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Data growth is the one exponential we can all relate to and will continue to grow into the future. …
Getting Unstructured Data Under Control was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The external storage market – like most sectors of the IT industry – took a beating in the first quarter, thanks in large part to the novel coronavirus pandemic. …
Pure Storage’s Strategy Chief Talks Flash, NVMe, And The Competition was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The coronavirus pandemic has obviously had an impact on spending trends in the IT market. …
HPE Further Blurs The Storage Line Between On Premises And The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Every IT supplier has cloudy envy. And not just because utility-style pricing has become normalized by the big public clouds, but because they want to have a more regular, annuity-like revenue stream rather than always chasing the next deal. …
The Pursuit Of Storage That Spans The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Dan Stanzione has a lot of compute power at his fingertips. …
Attacking The Novel Coronavirus With Supercomputing Cycles was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A year ago, Dell Technologies made a significant push deeper into the fast-growing hybrid cloud space, unveiling its Dell Technologies Cloud initiative that includes hybrid cloud platforms that take advantage of the tight integration of technologies from Dell and VMware, which is majority owned by the larger company. …
Google And Dell Pave The Way For File Data In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It seems much longer than just a couple of months ago when the spreading coronavirus outbreak began make its presence felt in the tech industry. …
Pandemic Shows The Value Of The Public Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Kamran Amini was an executive at IBM in the mid-2000s when the company first put AMD’s then-relatively new Opteron processors into some of its System x servers. …
Lenovo Goes Double Barrel With AMD “Rome” Epycs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.