Google Cloud Adds Skylake, Fueling Performance Wars
As part of an ongoing effort to differentiate its public cloud services, Google made good this week on its intention to bring custom Xeon Skylake chips from Intel Corp. ...Full Article
Drug Developers Enlist Google Cloud HPC in the Fight Against ALS
Within the haystack of a lethal disease such as ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Lou Gehrig's Disease) there exists, somewhere, the molecular needle that will pierce this therapy-resistant affliction. ...Full Article
Public Cloud Adoption Up, Private Cloud Flat
The rise of hybrid cloud adoption among enterprises, powered by a substantial shift to multi-cloud infrastructure designed in part to retain flexibility, has resulted in market gains by rivals ...Full Article
Oracle Fleshes Out Cloud Data Strategy
Oracle has made a lot of noise over the last six months or so intended to challenge public cloud services leaders, especially Amazon Web Services. It is now attempting ...Full Article
Hybrid Cloud Dominates as Storage Challenges Mount
The steady enterprise migration to cloud services has users looking beyond the evident advantages of hybrid cloud approaches to consider the importance of attributes such as cloud storage scaling ...Full Article
Stratoscale Buys Tesora, Accelerating Database Shift to Cloud
The merger of database services with cloud and other datacenter infrastructure continues to accelerate with the latest acquisition of a database-as-a-service vendor by the Israeli cloud infrastructure provider Stratoscale. ...Full Article
No Waiting: ANSYS Adds Cycle Orchestration for Enterprise Cloud HPC
The waiting is the hardest part. When design engineers need to run complex simulations, too often they find that the HPC resources required for those workloads are already taken. ...Full Article
Google Expands Cloud Support For Windows
Google took aim at a cloud rival this week with an announcement it would support Microsoft's database management server and other Microsoft services on Google Cloud Platform. Google (NASDAQ: ...Full Article
Inside H&R Block’s Decision to Augment Tax Intelligence with IBM Watson
As tax season rears its hideous head, the 11 million U.S. taxpayers who annually schlep to an H&R Block office and sit down with an agent to prepare their ...Full Article
Heresies of the New HPC Cloud Universe
Perhaps ‘heresies’ is a bit strong, but HPC in the cloud is a fast-changing domain that’s increasingly governed by a new mindset, says Tim Carroll, head of ecosystem development ...Full Article