Getting To The Root Of Security With Trusted Silicon

The increasingly distributed nature of computing and the rapid growth in the number of the small connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) are combining with trends like the rise of silicon-level vulnerabilities highlighted by Spectre, Meltdown, and more recent variants to create an expanding and fluid security landscape that’s difficult for enterprises to navigate. …

Getting To The Root Of Security With Trusted Silicon was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

NREL Set to Soar Higher With Eagle Supercomputer

Five years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise let loose the Peregrine supercomputer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a marriage of performance and power efficiency that is based on HPE’s dense Apollo 8000 system and includes warm liquid cooling. …

NREL Set to Soar Higher With Eagle Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Negotiating The NVM-Express Land Rush

Newisys has been on the NVM-Express for several years, putting the high-profile interface in a growing number of server and storage platforms, including servers with NVM-Express directly attacked to the CPU, a system running NVM-Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and a storage expansion flash array (JBOF, or Just a Bunch of Flash). …

Negotiating The NVM-Express Land Rush was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Intel Pries Open Servers To Squeeze In Persistent Memory

The massive amounts of data being generated in enterprise datacenters and out there on the public clouds and the need to quickly access and analyze that data is putting a strain on traditional storage and memory architectures that typically inhabit these environments. …

Intel Pries Open Servers To Squeeze In Persistent Memory was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Intel Looks Down The Server Chip Road To Ice Lake

Intel continues to pull in massive amounts of money through its portfolio of datacenter wares and to dominate the market for processors in the glass house. …

Intel Looks Down The Server Chip Road To Ice Lake was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

TACC Tapped for NSF’s Next Supercomputer

The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) will house the latest leadership-class supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation, a project that stands as a tribute to the NSF’s continued efforts to push supercomputing projects and the latest indication of the ground the organization is losing to the Department of Energy (DOE) in this effort. …

TACC Tapped for NSF’s Next Supercomputer was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Bringing Machine Learning Within Reach Of Enterprises

Enterprises that want to leverage the huge amounts of data they are generating to gain useful insights and make faster and better business decisions are going to have to use machine learning at scale for modeling and training. …

Bringing Machine Learning Within Reach Of Enterprises was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Cray XC50 Accelerates Astrophysics In Japan

Researchers for centuries have relied on observational and theoretical astronomy for studying the stars, using telescopes and mathematical calculations to view planets and other objects, determine how they relate to each other, delve into mysteries like black holes and dark matter, and put into perspective the Earth’s place in the universe. …

Cray XC50 Accelerates Astrophysics In Japan was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Object Storage Tiering In A Cloudy World

For many enterprises these days, managing data has the feel of a three-ring circus. …

Object Storage Tiering In A Cloudy World was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Quantum Has Its Role, But In-Memory Is the Way To Go

A lot of money and time is being thrown at quantum computing by vendors, including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Intel, and there is the normal competitiveness between the United States and China and Europe as well as work in Japan. …

Quantum Has Its Role, But In-Memory Is the Way To Go was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Putting Enterprise Applications At The Edge

The business of business is continuing to move out of the traditional datacenter. …

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HPE Boots Up Sandbox Of The Machine For Early Users

It has been four years since Kirk Bresniker, HPE Fellow, vice president, and chief architect at Hewlett Packard Labs, stood before a crowd of journalists and analysts at the company’s Discover show and announced plans to create a new computing architecture that puts the focus on memory and will eventually use such technologies as silicon photonics and memristors. …

HPE Boots Up Sandbox Of The Machine For Early Users was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Cisco Twists Open Its Intent Networking

The rise of public clouds, the Internet of Things, greater mobility, and the more devices connecting to corporate networks is creating highly distributed environments for enterprises where applications can come from a variety of places, workloads can run on-premises or somewhere in multiple public clouds and computing resources can be located anywhere from the datacenter through branch offices and the network edge and out in the cloud. …

Cisco Twists Open Its Intent Networking was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Cloud Provider Embraces NVMesh To Lower Storage Latencies

For the past several years, Teuto.net, a small public and private cloud provider in Germany, has used the open source Ceph software as the backbone of its storage infrastructure. …

Cloud Provider Embraces NVMesh To Lower Storage Latencies was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Driving AI At Higher Speed Into The Enterprise

The challenge with many of the complex modern technologies that are coming into datacenters is making them easy and cheap enough for enterprises to use at a their own scale, which is much more limited than that of hyperscalers and cloud builders, and employing their own skillsets, which are also more limited. …

Driving AI At Higher Speed Into The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Cray Spreads The AI Word To The Masses

Like any emerging technology, artificial intelligence and various components like machine learning and deep learning are getting a lot of hype, with a continuous flow of analyst reports and news stories detailing how they all will change how business is done, research is conducted and operations are run. …

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A Private Rackspace Still Embodies The Public Cloud

One cloud was never going to be enough, no matter how much Amazon Web Services wants it to be otherwise. …

A Private Rackspace Still Embodies The Public Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Making AI Users Accountable For Their Algorithms

Any new and powerful technology always cuts both ways.

The rapid rise of the machine learning flavor of artificial intelligence is due to the fact that, unlike prior approaches, it actually works and therefore can be embraced by a wide swath of businesses, research and educational institutions, and technology companies. …

Making AI Users Accountable For Their Algorithms was written by Jeffrey Burt at .

Forging Composable Infrastructure For Memory-Centric Systems

For years, enterprises have wanted to pool and then carve up the myriad resources of the datacenter to enable them to more efficiently run their workloads, reduce power consumption, and improve utilization rates. It takes what seems like an endless series of technologies advances to move towards this goal. But, ever so slowly, we are getting there.

Virtualization that started in the servers flowed into the storage realm and eventually into the network, and converged systems mashing up virtual compute and virtual networking soon begat hyperconverged infrastructure, which added in virtual storage – one of the fastest growing segments …

Forging Composable Infrastructure For Memory-Centric Systems was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

HPE Buys Its Way Into Virtual Networking With Plexxi

It is safe to say that companies that have traditionally built server, storage, and switch hardware have had a tough time finding their place in a world that is increasingly allergic to appliances and wants everything to come as software that customers have more control over. Even those vendors that are innovating at the hardware level have a heavy software hook, and no hardware vendor can leave itself in the position of just shifting boxes if it hopes to have a profitable business.

Hence the recent acquisitions by both Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Dell, of course, shelled out a …

HPE Buys Its Way Into Virtual Networking With Plexxi was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.