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Author Archives: Doug Black
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AWS Offers HPC-on-Demand from Alces Flight
June 14th, 2016 Comments Off on AWS Offers HPC-on-Demand from Alces Flight
Today, the community of HPC-in-the-cloud solution providers is fairly limited for commercial organizations. Giant hyperscalers – notably Amazon (AWS), Google (GCP) and Microsoft (Azure) – remain at the core and keep expanding their HPC resources. Circling around them are ...
Protection in the ‘Data Path’ for Security across Hybrid Environments
June 14th, 2016 Comments Off on Protection in the ‘Data Path’ for Security across Hybrid Environments
Bracket Computing, the hot, highly funded hybrid cloud security platform company, today announced extensions to its “Computing Cell” cloud workload protection platform, a container-like “bubble” that enables “fluid” data security stretching across multiple computing environments – be it on-prem, ...
Onset of AI Prompts New Security Concerns
June 10th, 2016 Comments Off on Onset of AI Prompts New Security Concerns
Intelligent, often autonomous, systems are making headway in the datacenter as developers, struggling to keep up, seek to offload manual processes by adopting new approaches, such as prescriptive IT automation. That’s the conclusion of a vendor-backed survey of IT ...
HPE Claims Industry-1st ‘Converged IoT System’ for OT, IT and Analytics at the Edge
June 8th, 2016 Comments Off on HPE Claims Industry-1st ‘Converged IoT System’ for OT, IT and Analytics at the Edge
HPE today announced not only a new IIoT platform but also what it calls a new product category, the “converged IoT system,” that places compute power, data ingest and data analytics at the edge of industrial settings where sensored ...
Intel Xeon E7 Balloons In-memory Capacity, Targets Real-Time Analytics
June 7th, 2016 Comments Off on Intel Xeon E7 Balloons In-memory Capacity, Targets Real-Time Analytics
Who crunches more data faster, wins. It’s this drive that cuts through and clarifies the essence of the evolutionary spirit in the computer industry, the dual desire to get to real time with bigger and bigger chunks of data. ...
Overcoming the 3 Key Barriers to Industrial IoT
June 6th, 2016 Comments Off on Overcoming the 3 Key Barriers to Industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers exciting possibilities for transforming industrial automation. Having the ability to capture data at the industrial edge—from the manufacturing shop floor to natural gas compression stations in the field—offers the ability to leverage ...
New Data Analytics Benchmark Puts Stopwatch to Hadoop-based Systems
June 3rd, 2016 Comments Off on New Data Analytics Benchmark Puts Stopwatch to Hadoop-based Systems
Ladies and gentlemen, start your clusters. A new data analytics and machine learning benchmark has been released by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) measuring real-world performance of Hadoop-based systems, including MapReduce, Apache Hive, and Apache Spark Machine Learning ...
New IBM Data Analytics Software Targets Workload Management, Spark Adoption
June 2nd, 2016 Comments Off on New IBM Data Analytics Software Targets Workload Management, Spark Adoption
IBM announced additions today to the infrastructure layer of its high performance data analytics software portfolio, including “cognitive features,” such as scheduling and resource management, and capabilities aimed at easing adoption of Spark. The new software-defined infrastructure products – ...
IoT Urgently Needs to Increase Collaboration
June 1st, 2016 Comments Off on IoT Urgently Needs to Increase Collaboration
When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT) there is one thing we can be sure of – the number of online products and consumer goods will increase exponentially as 2016 continues. According to Gartner Inc. forecasts, the ...
Tech Giants Ally to Bring Coherence to Data Center Workloads
May 27th, 2016 Comments Off on Tech Giants Ally to Bring Coherence to Data Center Workloads
Overcoming one of the most vexing technical problems hampering performance in the data center - “cache incoherence,” the inability of different devices (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs) to work together without copying data back and forth – is the target of ...