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Author Archives: Doug Black
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Big Data at Netflix: Testing, Testing, Testing…
May 13th, 2016 Comments Off on Big Data at Netflix: Testing, Testing, Testing…
Netflix is a company riding, you could say driving, the streaming internet video wave. Much of that wave is founded on Open Source big data analytics in the cloud at scale – at extreme scale. Five years ago, when ...
AgriGenomics: A Hungry World and the Hunt for Higher Yield Wheat
May 12th, 2016 Comments Off on AgriGenomics: A Hungry World and the Hunt for Higher Yield Wheat
With global wheat production down and human populations up, better insight into wheat - improving yields along with drought and pathogen resistance - is critical to meeting future global food demand. Key to this is utilizing supercomputers to provide ...
IBM Launches 2nd Cognitive Computing Center in a Month
May 10th, 2016 Comments Off on IBM Launches 2nd Cognitive Computing Center in a Month
IBM today announced a multi-year, cognitive computing collaboration with the University of Maryland in Baltimore on an Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Laboratory (ACCL). It’s the second such move in a month. In mid-April Big Blue announced plans for the Center ...
The Network Is Evolving. Are Your NetAdmin Skills?
May 9th, 2016 Comments Off on The Network Is Evolving. Are Your NetAdmin Skills?
With advancements like SDN, the Internet of Things, BYOD, telepresence, SaaS, cloud, Big Data and dozens more disrupting what was once a simple environment, it’s safe to say that today’s networks are more dynamic than ever. Every day, we ...
Healthcare Conundrum Overcome: Protecting and Sharing Patient Data
May 6th, 2016 Comments Off on Healthcare Conundrum Overcome: Protecting and Sharing Patient Data
The healthcare industry wrestles with a perennial dilemma: protecting sensitive patient data versus the need to amass and distribute patient datasets at scale among multiple hospitals to enhance medical research and treatment using advanced data analytics. Intel’s Collaborative Cancer ...
Hiring Managers Worldwide Desperately Seeking Open Source Pros
May 5th, 2016 Comments Off on Hiring Managers Worldwide Desperately Seeking Open Source Pros
It’s an open secret: if you have open source development skills the world is your oyster. The 2016 Open Source Jobs Report, released today by The Linux Foundation and Dice, a career site for technology professionals, paints a picture ...
Trim Cloud Fat to Reduce Your ‘Waste Line’
May 2nd, 2016 Comments Off on Trim Cloud Fat to Reduce Your ‘Waste Line’
Who doesn’t love the cloud? You have to enjoy the agility and ability to spin up resources at the drop of a credit card, as well as the way you can easily scale resources up and down, at will ...
Trio of New Systems Expands IBM All-Flash Storage Portfolio for Hyperscale and Cloud
April 27th, 2016 Comments Off on Trio of New Systems Expands IBM All-Flash Storage Portfolio for Hyperscale and Cloud
Calling it the foundation of its cloud and cognitive computing strategy, IBM has significantly expanded its all-flash storage platform portfolio with the announcement today of three new array products aimed at managing massive amounts of data associated with cloud-based, ...
Orchestrating Simulations on a Formula 1 CFD Cluster with Grid Engine
April 27th, 2016 Comments Off on Orchestrating Simulations on a Formula 1 CFD Cluster with Grid Engine
Sports and advanced scale computing have teamed up for well over a decade, but in possibly no sport does HPC play a more central, competitive role than in the potboiler world of Formula One auto racing. CFD simulations are ...
Fighting the Cloud Vendor Lock-In Headache
April 25th, 2016 Comments Off on Fighting the Cloud Vendor Lock-In Headache
Vendor lock-in is one of the biggest concerns for enterprises making the move to the public cloud. IT leaders have spent years under the yoke of database giants and hardware vendors, so they are right to be skittish about ...