VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds

More than a decade ago, VMware and its new server virtualization technology represented  significant threat to traditional OEMs like Dell, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard (now Hewlett Packard Enterprise) who were selling their boxes to enterprises that had to over-provision the systems they were bringing into make sure there was enough compute capacity to handle the biggest spikes in demand over the course of the year. …

VMware’s Head – And Future – Is In The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

The View From On High On How To Beat Moore’s Law

The rapid changes underway in modern datacenters and HPC environment are demanding more compute power from a tech industry that is running into significant barriers to supplying that capacity. …

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With Rome, AMD Will Build Off Momentum For Naples Epyc Chips

AMD had been down this road before. In 2003, the chip maker launched the “SledgeHammer” Opteron, the first 64-bit X86 server processor with backward compatibility to its 32-bit predecessors that came at a time when much larger rival Intel was still pumping up Itanium as the next-generation architecture – and its only 64-bit option. …

With Rome, AMD Will Build Off Momentum For Naples Epyc Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Paving The Way For Two System Architecture Paths

The IT industry is all about evolution, building on what’s been done in the past to address the demands of the future. …

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Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications

Enterprises are putting a lot of time, money, and resources behind their nascent artificial intelligence efforts, banking on the fact that they can automate the way application leverage the massive amounts of customer and operational data they are keeping. …

Bringing DevOps Control To Bear On AI Applications was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

McLaren Builds Infrastructure And F1 Race Cars For Speed

For The McLaren Group, it’s all about speed.

Born in 1963 as a Formula 1 race car company, it initially was about speed on the track. …

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Data as a Service in a Hybrid, Multicloud World

As it was emerging, cloud computing was seen as a fairly straight-up proposition for enterprises of finding a cloud, putting applications and data into it and running and storing it all on someone else’s infrastructure. …

Data as a Service in a Hybrid, Multicloud World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

A File System for a Changing IT World

Qumulo was born at a time of change. When the company was founded seven years ago, enterprises were still running most of their business on premises, but the cloud was out there now and software-defined was gaining steam. …

A File System for a Changing IT World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Composability Melts Into Rack Servers

For enterprises that want to take their compute, storage and networking, create fluid pools of datacenter resources and then use software to deploy and use them as needed, Hewlett Packard Enterprise for the past few years have offered them its Synergy composable appliances that include all that hardware capabilities as well as software like OneView for IT management. …

Composability Melts Into Rack Servers was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Spreading Artificial Intelligence Across Storage

Over the last couple of years, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added to its already broad portfolio of storage, which includes 3PAR arrays, which HPE bought in 2010, and its homegrown XP7 lineup, aimed at mission-critical workloads that need high availability and uptime. …

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HPE To Sell Every Product As A Service By 2022

The public cloud has given enterprises a taste of infrastructure that is highly agile and scalable, that is deployed and managed by someone else and that can be paid for based on the resources use, and now they increasingly are looking for tech vendors to give them a similar experience with their on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. …

HPE To Sell Every Product As A Service By 2022 was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop?

The big players in the Hadoop data analytics market continue to hit headwinds in a rapidly evolving market that now includes competition from Amazon Web Services and top-tier major cloud providers that offer enterprises services for managing and analyzing the huge amounts of data that they are generating. …

Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop? was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Hadoop Pioneer MapR Faces An Uncertain Future

It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these Hadoop platform providers have spent a lot of money and time to expand their stacks beyond the basic open source Hadoop. …

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Lenovo Puts An Edge On Infrastructure

Five years ago, Lenovo spent almost $4.5 billion to buy IBM’s X86 server business and Google’s Motorola mobile phone unit, moves that instantly made the company a top-tier player in the datacenter and more competitive in the lucrative global smartphone market. …

Lenovo Puts An Edge On Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

The Cloudy Future Of SAP HANA

Sometimes here in the 21st century, cloudy means good.

Like most of its counterparts in the IT industry, SAP sees much of its future and that of its HANA in-memory database platform being in the cloud. …

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Making The OpenShift To The Hybrid Cloud

The thrust of much of the message that Red Hat was putting out last week at the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference in Boston revolved around multicloud and hybrid cloud environments – adopting them, deploying them, and managing them. …

Making The OpenShift To The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

The Tension That Drives Innovation In Linux

With any operating system, there is a tension between leaving something that is stable and that works alone and adding new features to keep it relevant. …

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HPE Starts To Pull AI Levers With BlueData

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has not been a stranger to traditional high performance computing or the emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and data analytics that are driving rapid changes in the datacenter. …

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Dell, VMware Team Up To Tackle The Hybrid Cloud

As enterprises shift more of their workloads into public clouds and grow out their multicloud strategies – many are using three or more public clouds for their applications and data to as much  protect them against problems with the cloud provider as to take advantage of particular strengths that each cloud provider offer – there can be the tendency to think that many will end up putting everything in the cloud. …

Dell, VMware Team Up To Tackle The Hybrid Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

OpenStack Follows The Datacenter Out To The Edge

It is difficult not to be impressed with the rapid adoption of OpenStack since the open source cloud infrastructure software platform was first released almost 10 years ago, and that adoption has accelerated over the past few years. …

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