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New Tools Seek to Orchestrate Container Management
Several application container management tools were released this week with the goals of securing the software supply chain while improving orchestration of container clusters as the percentage of production ...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
Survey: Datacenter Optimization Remains Elusive
A new vendor-sponsored survey finds that the vast majority of datacenter operators doubt IT infrastructure matches their digital business strategy while many remain concerned about public cloud security. The ...Full Article
Hyper-Converged IT Making Inroads in Datacenters
Infrastructure refresh projects centering on datacenter hyper-convergence are planned over the next 12 months by nearly half of respondents to an industry survey, underscoring the conclusion that virtualized infrastructure ...Full Article
Treat Your Databases as Cattle, not Pets
Today, databases have to be treated like pets. Each is special and receives individualized care and attention. At scale, and with the need for greater agility, the issue of ...Full Article
HPE Rolls Out ‘Micro’ Datacenter
The evolution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise as an infrastructure software vendor advanced this week with the release of a "micro datacenter" offering that targets exponential data growth and the ...Full Article
Sweden Cuts Tax on Datacenter Power
As the data continues to pile up, so too does the stiffening competition to store and manage it. The latest gambit comes from energy-efficient Sweden, where the Scandinavian nation's ...Full Article
The State of Cybersecurity: Be More Afraid
Looming behind the excitement at SC16 around new digital enterprise strategies is the growing menace of cyber-attacks. But in spite of these worries, the state of cybersecurity readiness at ...Full Article
IBM Eyes Enterprise Workloads With PowerAI
Last year at SC15, IBM offered its vision of an accelerator-assisted computing paradigm enabled by the OpenPOWER ecosystem of diverse partners and focused on cognitive computing as the key ...Full Article
Hyper-scalers Speeding Apps Via FPGAs
Nimbix is the latest HPC cloud vendor to collaborate with FPGA pioneer Xilinx Inc. to accelerate cloud datacenter workflows that increasingly include computing-intensive data analytics, machine learning and video ...Full Article
