IBM Joins Blockchain Push
The launch earlier this year of an open transaction initiative designed to develop industry standards for blockchain technology generated much interest and buzz. For example, the financial and technology ...Full Article
Genomic Sequencing at Children’s Mercy: Saving Time to Save Lives
Genomic sequencing – that is, rapid sequencing – is instrumental to diagnosing and treating critically ill patients, and managing the high data volumes involved in genomics is essential to ...Full Article
IoT, Containers Seen Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Push
The steady, seemingly inexorable, shift to enterprise hybrid cloud infrastructure is being driven by factors ranging from the disaggregation of storage from computing resources in the datacenter to the ...Full Article
eBay’s Liquid Cooled Billion-transactions-a-day Data Center
Water transports heat 25 times more efficiently than air, but water and electronics don’t mix – hence the prevalence of air cooling in the data center. It’s controlling water’s ...Full Article
Intel Launches ‘Knights Landing’ Phi for Machine Learning, HPC
From ISC 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, Intel Corp. launched the second-generation Xeon Phi product family, code-named Knights Landing, aimed at HPC and machine learning workloads. The company had been shipping ...Full Article
World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip Said to Show Promise Across Multiple Workloads
A blindingly fast microchip, the first to contain 1,000 independent processors and said to show promise for digital signal processing, video processing, encryption and datacenter/cloud workloads, has been announced ...Full Article
HPE Debuts Manufacturing Solution and New Advanced Scale Software Environment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), now about eight months into its transition as a separate entity, retained the prestige of fielding the most systems of any vendor on the Top500 ...Full Article
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
