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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Tag, You’re Not It: Why Tagging Kills Cloud Cost Management
May 1st, 2018 Comments Off on Tag, You’re Not It: Why Tagging Kills Cloud Cost Management
Tagging is a major part of pretty much any cloud deployment. It’s commonly used to assign some piece of useful information to a cloud resource. Most IT teams rely on tagging for cost control. They tag servers, storage volumes, ...
See it Now: Streaming Analytics Visualization on Kafka
April 25th, 2018 Comments Off on See it Now: Streaming Analytics Visualization on Kafka
In traditional IT, data’s gathered up, stored and analyzed in batch. But in our new, digitally transformed world, we want everything converted to data and analyzed – including reality. If you’re in retail, you want to know which products ...
Cryptojacking: Cryptocurrency Mining Meets Malicious Intentions
April 25th, 2018 Comments Off on Cryptojacking: Cryptocurrency Mining Meets Malicious Intentions
With data center technology evolving relentlessly, IT professionals must grapple with a dynamic security landscape, as malicious actors leverage new capabilities to launch even more sophisticated cyberattacks, particularly in the ransomware genre. One such example is the recent intersection ...
Serverless Computing: Big Potential – with a Few ‘If’s’
April 17th, 2018 Comments Off on Serverless Computing: Big Potential – with a Few ‘If’s’
Serverless computing has become one of enterprise technology’s hottest buzzwords, even though the term is a bit of a misnomer. No, servers aren’t going away. But serverless computing, also known as Function as a Service (FaaS), represents a dramatic ...
A Cloud-Based Marketplace Designed to Ease FPGA Workload Acceleration
April 12th, 2018 Comments Off on A Cloud-Based Marketplace Designed to Ease FPGA Workload Acceleration
A French “acceleration-as-a-service” company has joined the array of companies forming partnerships and ecosystems that push FPGA technology into the data center mainstream with the launch of a cloud-based marketplace that it says makes FPGA workload speed-ups more accessible ...
C3 IoT Win Streak Continues with Microsoft Partnership
April 11th, 2018 Comments Off on C3 IoT Win Streak Continues with Microsoft Partnership
In the wake of winning a major deal with 3M, C3 IoT – the IoT analytics company with hundreds of millions of sensors under management – has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft intended to accelerate enterprise AI and ...
Intel Accelerates FPGAs into Server Mainstream with Dell EMC, Fujitsu
April 11th, 2018 Comments Off on Intel Accelerates FPGAs into Server Mainstream with Dell EMC, Fujitsu
The rapid emergence of heterogeneous, accelerated computing in the advanced scale computing market took a step forward this week with two significant announcements designed to broaden adoption of lightning-quick FPGAs within mainstream x86 computing infrastructures. The news comes on ...
Bots: An Investment in Technology or People?
April 9th, 2018 Comments Off on Bots: An Investment in Technology or People?
Fears about automation, its transformation of the workplace and effects on employment date back several decades. Fast forward to rapid recent advances in automation technologies, including AI, autonomous systems and robotics, and concerns are being raised anew — and ...
Generating Electricity with Bladeless Wind Turbines – One Household at a Time
April 6th, 2018 Comments Off on Generating Electricity with Bladeless Wind Turbines – One Household at a Time
An innovative wind turbine design from a small company based in Madrid and Ávila, Spain, started with a radical idea derived from a 75-year old catastrophe. Engineer, inventor, and co-founder David Yáñez encountered film footage of the infamous Tacoma-Narrows ...
Qumulo’s QF2 NVMe All-Flash File Storage: 4GBs/Second Per Node
April 5th, 2018 Comments Off on Qumulo’s QF2 NVMe All-Flash File Storage: 4GBs/Second Per Node
Claiming for itself the title of the world’s highest performance file storage system, Qumulo this week announced a new “enterprise-ready and cloud integrated” NVMe all-flash solution that the company said delivers 16GBs/second in a minimum configuration four-node system. The ...