Avoiding the Nightmare of Network Downtime in the Cloud
When I think about network downtime, many words come to mind. Among them: panic, fear, Armageddon. Perhaps that last one is a bit dramatic, but as IT functions and ...Full Article
Study: Flash Going Mainstream, Driving Adoption of Big Data Analytics
The rapid emergence of Flash-based storage into the mainstream technology is a primary factor in the embrace of advanced scale computing in the enterprise – particularly big data analytics ...Full Article
Mellanox Advances ‘In-Network Computing’ with ConnectX-5 Adapter
Networking specialist Mellanox has announced ConnectX-5, the next-generation of its 100G InfiniBand and Ethernet adapter line. The company says the new device will help organizations take advantage of real-time ...Full Article
Heading into ISC16, OpenHPC Releases Latest Stack with 60-plus Package
SC15 was sort of a muted launch party for OpenHPC – the nascent effort to develop a ‘plug-and-play’ software framework for HPC. There seemed to be widespread agreement the ...Full Article
As Containers Catch On, So Too Do Storage Concerns
Persistent storage requirements have overtaken security as the top barrier to adoption of application containers in production, according to a new adoption survey. The container market adoption survey released ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
