Dell Ties Storage To Kubernetes, Sharpens Edge Strategy

Dell Technologies, since its founding 37 years ago, has been about infrastructure, from the servers, networking systems and storage appliances that populate enterprise datacenters to the corporate clients that are designed to make employees more productive. …

Dell Ties Storage To Kubernetes, Sharpens Edge Strategy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Google Muscles Its Way Into Datacenters, Attacks From The Edge

Thomas Kurian’s arrival at Google Cloud in early 2019 after more than 22 years at Oracle marked a significant shift in Google’s thinking, putting an emphasis on expanding its cloud’s business use by enterprises as the key to making up ground on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in the booming global cloud market. …

Google Muscles Its Way Into Datacenters, Attacks From The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI

Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …

VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

HPE Converts Analytics, Storage, Data Protection To GreenLake

Since launching GreenLake in 2018 and promising that all of its portfolio would be available as services by next year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been on a sprint to build up the capabilities of the platform. …

HPE Converts Analytics, Storage, Data Protection To GreenLake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

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.