Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

Mind the Gap: Coping with Big Data’s Big Costs

June 18th, 2018 (0)

In an increasingly data-driven world, with flourishing data volumes and improvements to technological infrastructure, big data promises to benefit businesses in nearly every industry. A study conducted by the Harvard Business Review found that companies leveraging advanced analytics will, ...

The Future of Data Center Management: From DCIM to DMaaS

June 15th, 2018 (0)

The parable of the four blind people describing an elephant could be applied to data center management, as can the proverb about divide-and-conquer: too often, disparate data center constituencies monitor performance through the prism of their own operational perspectives. ...

How to Boost Confidence in Data Analytics

June 13th, 2018 (0)

Ideally, data would be the foundation of every business decision: for optimizing operational processes, for analytical insights and for competitive advantage. But a recent TDWI survey exposes a very different reality. According to the report, only 11 percent of ...

Penguin Computing in $85M Acquisition Deal

June 11th, 2018 (0)

If another indication were needed of the explosive growth in cloud services, AI-based workloads and Linux in the enterprise - along with their attractiveness to investors - it’s the acquisition of fast-growth Penguin Computing, announced today by Smart Global ...

Low Code App Modernization Renews Software Running out of Steam

June 7th, 2018 (0)

Any enterprise that got its start before the dawn of the internet era comes equipped with a legacy in its systems of records that are several decades old. These systems have been through multiple patch and upgrade cycles over ...

HPE’s New Round of Multi-Platform Storage Networking Products

June 5th, 2018 (0)

HPE announced several storage networking-related products today, along with the global expansion of its “Complete” reseller model for virtually engineered third-party solutions. Designed to support multiple network protocols and multiple vendor partners, the combined announcements encompass some of the ...

Machine Learning: Scaling Past the Pilot Phase

June 5th, 2018 (0)

In a world of cars that drive themselves and robots that do back flips, the fully automated industrial operation remains an aspiration. Limitations in real-time computing, AI and robotics slow progress, regardless of how advanced a company is or ...

Facebook to Build 970,000 Square Foot, 100% Energy Renewable Data Center

June 1st, 2018 (0)

Pop Quiz: What type of building is essential to the daily operations of a global business, is nearly a million square feet in size, but has only a few dozen cars in its employee parking lot? A data center ...

Exascale for the Rest of Us: exaFLOPS Systems Capable for Industry

May 31st, 2018 (0)

Enterprise advanced scale computing – or HPC in the enterprise – is an entity unto itself, situated between (and with characteristics of) conventional enterprise IT, on one side, and traditional HPC at supercomputing centers, on the other. When these ...

Cyber Insurance, Security and the Enterprise Challenge

May 30th, 2018 (0)

In the evolving world of cybersecurity, enterprises need access to cyber insurance that accurately reflects their current security posture and that covers both direct and indirect expenses. The same challenge, of course, applies to the insurers issuing the policies. ...