
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
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 .
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. …
The Tension That Drives Innovation In Linux was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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. …
HPE Starts To Pull AI Levers With BlueData was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
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 .
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. …
OpenStack Follows The Datacenter Out To The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Given its checkered history with acquisitions like the deal to buy the ill-fated Autonomy for its data analytics software, there was a bit of apprehension in 2015 when the pre-breakup Hewlett-Packard announced it was buying wireless networking vendor Aruba Networks for $3 billion. …
Applications Will Drive Infrastructure At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Google hiring of longtime Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to take over for Diane Greene as the head its cloud unit was a signal that the hyperscale company was serious about generating more enterprise businesses in hopes of better competing with larger public cloud providers Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. …
Google Turns To Partners In Cloud Tangle was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The promise of edge computing is to better deal with the massive amounts of data that are being created by the rapidly growing numbers of mobile devices, remote systems, and sensors that are connecting into the network and that are critical to the business. … “Getting A Handle On Data At The Edge”
Getting A Handle On Data At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The edge is getting a lot of attention these days, given the fast-growing amount of data that is being generated by the proliferation of devices and systems located outside of the traditional core datacenter. …
The Evolving Infrastructure at the Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
NVM-Express has been on a steady roll for the past several years, a hot technology in a storage industry that is looking for ways to best address the insatiable demand for higher performance and throughput and lower latency driven by the need to process data faster and more securely. …
Bringing NVMe Over Fabrics Into The Storage Big Tent was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
As enterprises continue to embrace hybrid and multicloud models, they are looking for fast access to the data that can be stored both on-premises or in public clouds, and often in more than one cloud. …
Unifying On Premises And Clouds With Flash And NVM-Express was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Hyperconverged infrastructure has grown up quite a bit from its early days, when it was seen primarily as a way of supplying an affordable and easy-to-deploy solution for supporting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. …
Getting Edgy About Hyperconverged Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The center of gravity for data is continuing to shift from core datacenters to other parts well beyond the walls of those facilities. …
Staking A Claim In The Cloud And At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Enterprises that are betting the massive amounts of data that they are collecting will deliver the insights they need to make better and faster businesses are finding that they could just as easily be overwhelmed by them. …
AI And The Further Automation Of IT was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Cloud providers can be like sharks in that they have to keep moving forward – in their case, growing the number of services they can offer enterprises – or be overtaken by competitors. …
Battle Of The Document Databases was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
The history of digital computing is to provide increasing levels of abstraction to get programmers further and further away from directly manipulating the ones and zeros. …
Red Hat, Google, IBM, And SAP Go Knative For Serverless was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
For more than a decade, datacenter system administrators have been trying to figure out how to get their increasingly complex infrastructure under control and to manage them in a way that allows them to keep up with, adapt to, and scale with the rapid changes that are the new norm. …
Pulling The Puppet Strings In HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Proctor & Gamble, the massive multinational conglomerate and the world’s largest seller of consumer goods, has long been an advocate of computer modeling and simulation running atop HPC clusters. …
The Critical And Pervasive Role HPC Plays At Proctor & Gamble was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
HPC and the cloud have an uneasy, lukewarm relationship. Some corporations running HPC environments take the view that they have the infrastructure and software capabilities they need to run their own often massive workloads and taking on the networking costs, security concerns and management hassles of running applications and keep data in the cloud doesn’t make sense to them. …
Pratt & Whitney Launches HPC to The Cloud To Push Jet Engine Design was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Emerging technologies like machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing can promise significant improvements in an array of industries, including the healthcare field. …
Machine Learning Sharpens Medical Imaging was written by Jeffrey Burt at .