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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.
Minding The Gaps Between Software Development And Production
People in cities around the world who use subways to move around will often see or hear the warning to “mind the gap” – or something similar – a caution to riders to be aware of the space between the doors of the train and the station platform. …
Minding The Gaps Between Software Development And Production was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Getting The Cloud But Keeping Control
The public cloud for years has tempted enterprises with the promise of much-needed agility and scalability that come with an elastic IT environment and of cost savings from not having to invest a lot of money upfront to buy a lot of infrastructure, adopting instead more flexible consumption models that allow organizations to pay only for what they use. …
Getting The Cloud But Keeping Control was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Now Storage Jumps Into HPE’s GreenLake
There has been a land rush of sorts by storage OEMs over the past few weeks to roll out systems and services designed to help enterprises manage and process the huge amounts of data that is being created and stored throughout their widely distributed IT environments. …
Now Storage Jumps Into HPE’s GreenLake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Object Storage Makes A Push Into HPC
Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers desperate for a storage architecture that only could scale to meet the demands of their rapidly growing datacenters, the massive amounts of data that was being generated and the need to be able to more easily move it between core on-premises datacenters and multiple cloud environments – and in the coming years the edge. …
Object Storage Makes A Push Into HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
OpenShifting The Hybrid Cloud Into High Gear
The cloud and the related edge already are rapidly influencing almost every aspect of IT, from the technology that is being adapted and created to how that technology is being consumed, as illustrated by the growing numbers of established hardware vendors – including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell, and Cisco Systems – that now are offering more of their portfolio as services. …
OpenShifting The Hybrid Cloud Into High Gear was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
IBM Views Enterprise Storage Through Hybrid Cloud Glasses
For the past couple of decades, IBM’s Spectrum Scale – formerly known as General Parallel File System –has had a solid standing as one of the two go-to file systems for HPC. …
IBM Views Enterprise Storage Through Hybrid Cloud Glasses was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For CPU Makers and OEMs Alike, It’s A Platform View
Dell took a look at the two weeks between the rollouts by AMD and Intel of their latest server processors and, after some debate, decided to unveil its entire portfolio of new and enhanced systems – featuring the new chips from both vendors – at the launch of AMD’s latest Epyc silicon rather than announce servers in line with the chip makers’ timing. …
For CPU Makers and OEMs Alike, It’s A Platform View was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Gelsinger Leads Emboldened Intel With Ice Lake Launch
The past several years haven’t been easy on Intel. The world’s top processor maker stumbled on its transition from 14 nanometer to 10 nanometer manufacturing and still finds itself behind rivals like AMD and Arm, which have made the move to 7 nanometer processes and which have line of sight on 5 nanometer. …
Gelsinger Leads Emboldened Intel With Ice Lake Launch was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.