Pure Storage Breaks into Storage-as-Code, Data Services

The cloud era started off with the belief that, eventually, enterprises would migrate all of their workloads to the public cloud — drawn by the promises of greater flexibility and agility, cost reductions, manageable OPEX payment models, and the ability to shift responsibility for management of IT environments to the cloud providers themselves. …

Pure Storage Breaks into Storage-as-Code, Data Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Arrcus Brings Network Automation and API Accessibility to the Edge

Arrcus, a well-funded edge network software startup that is working to make a name for itself in the expanding multicloud arena. But even as enterprise adoption of multicloud and hybrid cloud strategies continues to rise, he sees the future being at the network and compute edge. “Everybody talks about how you can get benefits from large pools of centralized capacity in the public cloud,” said Ayyar, whose was announced as chairman and CEO on Sept. 15. “What I feel very, very confident about is that this action is almost passé in terms of the clouds, and it’s moving a lot more into the edge. The pendulum is swinging from consolidated and large data centers doing everything to highly distributed and disaggregated infrastructures doing things that are point of consumption, point of sale, Continue reading

RISC-V Upstart Targets ML Inference Performance, Power Efficiency

There is a growing number of vendors big and small going hard to the hoop to make processors for artificial intelligence workloads. …

RISC-V Upstart Targets ML Inference Performance, Power Efficiency was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Lenovo Bundles VMware Stack At The Edge

Enterprises and tech vendors alike for the past few years have been talking about the growing importance of the edge in the increasingly distributed IT environment. …

Lenovo Bundles VMware Stack At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Hybrid Disk/Flash Storage Isn’t New, But It Is Getting Better

Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving it deep expertise in the non-volatile flash memory space at a time when enterprises were looking for expanded storage options in the wake of the rise of the cloud and the edge. …

Hybrid Disk/Flash Storage Isn’t New, But It Is Getting Better was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

DOE AI Expert Says New HPC Architecture Is Needed

Artificial intelligence is taking center stage in the IT industry, fueled by the massive growth in the data being generated and the increasing need in HPC and mainstream enterprises for capabilities ranging from analytics and automation. …

DOE AI Expert Says New HPC Architecture Is Needed was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Rambus Gets On The CXL Gravy Train

For much the three decades that Rambus has existed, it has largely focused on its patent portfolio and licensing its designs of memory interface technologies for a broad array of computer products. …

Rambus Gets On The CXL Gravy Train was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Pushing Cloud MySQL Performance The Oracle Way

Managing MySQL databases in the cloud is no easy chore, according to Steve Zivanic, vice president of database and autonomous services at Oracle. …

Pushing Cloud MySQL Performance The Oracle Way was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Kubernetes Expands From Containers To Infrastructure Management

Software – and the data it produces – is the engine that is driving IT these days. …

Kubernetes Expands From Containers To Infrastructure Management was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Stepping On The Gas For Flash Performance

Steve Fingerhut looks to the GPU when explaining what his company, Pliops, is working to achieve. …

Stepping On The Gas For Flash Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Intel Sees Path Back To Chip Process Performance Leadership

For decades, Intel leaned heavily on its manufacturing prowess as a key advantage over its various competitors like AMD, which had its own chip foundry that it spun off in 2009 and which became Globalfoundries. …

Intel Sees Path Back To Chip Process Performance Leadership was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Getting Industrial About The Hybrid Computing And AI Revolution

For oil and gas companies looking at drilling wells in a new field, the issue becomes one of return vs. …

Getting Industrial About The Hybrid Computing And AI Revolution was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Dell’s Omnia HPC Software Play

Almost three years ago, we wrote about Dell Technologies’ efforts to reassert itself into the HPC and supercomputing arena in a big way. …

Dell’s Omnia HPC Software Play was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

HPE Builds Lighthouse Platform On GreenLake Services

The hybrid cloud is convincing established players that they need to play on both sides of the net, in the cloud (as well as the edge) and on premises. …

HPE Builds Lighthouse Platform On GreenLake Services was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Lenovo Gives SuperMUC-NG Supercomputer An Upgrade

Lenovo became a powerhouse in the HPC and supercomputer spaces back in 2014, when it bought IBM’s System x server division for $2.1 billion in a deal that also saw it license storage and system management software from Big Blue. …

Lenovo Gives SuperMUC-NG Supercomputer An Upgrade was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Think Locally About Data Management, But Act Globally

The amount of data being created is continuing to rise exponentially and it’s coming in all shapes and sizes and from myriad locations. …

Think Locally About Data Management, But Act Globally was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Dell: Living On The Edge With Its Head In The Clouds

Deepak Patil knows all about the cloud. For the last third of his more than 15 years with Microsoft, Patil was one of the key figures behind the launch of Azure, the enterprise software giant’s public cloud. …

Dell: Living On The Edge With Its Head In The Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Pulling All The Pieces Together at Hitachi Vantara

When Gajen Kandiah took over as CEO of Hitachi Vantara a year ago after almost 15 years with IT services company Cognizant, he found a company with a deep history in the data storage space, growing strength in services and a presence in the fast-growing edge computing realm. …

Pulling All The Pieces Together at Hitachi Vantara was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Separating Compute And Storage In Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Back in its earliest days, hyperconverged infrastructure was seen primarily as a consolidation play, a way to bring together compute, storage, networking and management together into a single package and offset some of the rising costs and complexities in enterprise datacenters. …

Separating Compute And Storage In Hyperconverged Infrastructure was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Google Cloud Mainstreams AI With Vertex Platform

For the past several years, tech giants have been trying to make artificial intelligence in its many guises HPC, data analytics, and other advanced workloads more available and easier to use for enterprises. …

Google Cloud Mainstreams AI With Vertex Platform was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.