Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

IBM Launches All-Flash, Multi-Cloud Storage

July 10th, 2018 (0)

IBM today announced a new all flash-based entry to its storage products portfolio, a fusion of high performance storage technologies that the company said combines low latency IBM FlashCore technology integrated with multi-cloud software-defined IBM Spectrum Storage solutions. The ...

Hitting at the Hidden (and Not So Hidden) Costs of CAE

July 9th, 2018 (0)

Today’s engineers use Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software to solve a range of engineering problems associated with the mass production of products. Yet, many know first-hand that single licenses of advanced CAE multi-physics solvers can easily run in the ...

Bringing AI to Autonomous Centers of Data

July 5th, 2018 (0)

Traditionally, IT’s role included reacting to problems in the data center. This resulted in frustration, headaches and wasted time. After an issue cropped up, staff searched through log files and interpreted graphs to find the cause. IT staff often ...

Oil Exploration at Petascale

July 2nd, 2018 (0)

We’ve been reading about it, researching it and discussing it, maybe even rolling out small implementations for years. Now growing numbers of enterprises across every vertical are adopting data analytics and artificial intelligence technologies as an essential tool for ...

2017: Cloud HPC on a Roll; Pure Play High Performance Storage Dips; End User Unease with ‘Technology Disaggregation’

June 28th, 2018 (0)

HPC in the cloud is one of those “insanely great” ideas that, failing to fire, year after year recedes before our expectations. Until, that is, last year, according to industry watcher Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360, which he said ...

At ISC18: Hyperion Reports Healthy Current & Future HPC Market Growth

June 27th, 2018 (0)

Borne on the rising wave of emerging high performance data analytics (HPDA) and machine learning use cases, along with global government spending on development of exascale-class system the HPC server market grew at a healthy year-over-year rate of just ...

How Microservices and APIs Make Beautiful Music Together

June 26th, 2018 (0)

When I talk to enterprise leaders confused about managing microservices, I sometimes begin by asking them to imagine an evening at the symphony. I love the sound of an orchestra tuning before a performance. That that riot of competing ...

ISC18’s Industrial Day Slate: Digital Twins, CFD for Automotive, HPC for SMEs

June 23rd, 2018 (0)

For enterprise IT strategists, this year’s Industrial Day (Tuesday, June 26) at ISC18 in Frankfurt will cover a range of topics – digital twins, AI and machine learning in automotive design, HPC for SME’s and developments in advanced CFD ...

HPE’s Memory-Driven Vision Takes Tangible Form

June 21st, 2018 (0)

HPE’s ambitious quest to overturn classical computing’s architectural conventions and processor-centric norms, in place for more than 60 years, with what the company calls Memory-Driven Computing (MDC) has taken further steps toward maturation. HPE MDC research and development has ...

Qumulo Launches Nearline Archive Series, Aims to Breathe New Life into Archival Data

June 19th, 2018 (0)

On the heels of an over-subscribed $93M series D funding round announced two weeks ago, high performance file storage specialist Qumulo today launched a new product series that it says breathes new life into what typically is cold, hard-to-access ...