Author Archives: Doug Black

Doug Black

New Frontiers in Cyber Security: Locomotives without Wheels, Moats, Deep Learning at the Edge

April 9th, 2017 (0)

Industry analyst Bob Sorensen recently told us something most IT managers already know deep in their apprehensive hearts: cyber security is in a sorry state (see “Be More Afraid,” EnterpriseTech, Nov. 18, 2016). Security at many companies is somewhat ...

Elastifile’s ‘Cross-Cloud Fabric’: Flash-Native Distributed File System for Hybrid IT

April 6th, 2017 (0)

The tidal movement toward hybrid on- and off-prem IT is well underway and well understood. But the data management challenges of multi-site implementations, with data and applications straddling multiple storage and compute environments on-site and in a public cloud, ...

How Agile Teams Make Digital Transformation Happen

April 5th, 2017 (0)

Digital Transformation — the use of such technologies as mobility, analytics, social media and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to improve enterprise effectiveness — is revolutionizing how businesses operate and the ways project teams do their work. In order ...

Autonomous Cars: Google No. 1, Toyota Sees Carbon-free Future, Memory a Speed Bump?

March 30th, 2017 (0)

With billions of dollars at stake in the car market of the future, technology and auto companies are aggressively jockeying for position to deliver self-driving vehicles that could, ultimately, produce no greenhouse gas emissions Regarding autonomous vehicles, projected to ...

Bringing Big Data and HPC Together

March 30th, 2017 (0)

What does the intersection of big data and high performance computing look like? About 50 technology leaders from across industries got an exclusive glimpse during Tabor Communications’ inaugural LBD + EHPC event at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club ...

AI in HPC on Wall Street: Getting Going Is the Hard Part

March 29th, 2017 (0)

IT managers in the financial services industry are fully aware that high performance data analytics, AI and deep learning technologies are plentiful and available, and they know that some FSI companies are already deriving advantage from them. But they ...

AI in the News: Rao in at Intel, Ng out at Baidu, NVIDIA on at Tencent Cloud

March 25th, 2017 (0)

Just as AI has become the leitmotif of the advanced scale computing market, infusing much of the conversation about HPC in commercial and industrial spheres, it also is impacting high-level management changes in the industry. This week saw two ...

Communities of Communities: The Next Era of Open Source Software

March 24th, 2017 (0)

We are now about 20 years into the open source software era. You might think that open source simply means publishing the source code for something useful. While this is correct by definition, the most important component of any ...

Industry Clouds: An At-Scale Grass Roots Movement Changing IT Life within Sectors

March 18th, 2017 (0)

One of life’s hazards is becoming so immersed in our own way of doing business that a major disruptive force develops all around us – a threat to our careers and livelihoods – that we can’t see. For enterprise ...

Making Sense of When to Use FPGAs

March 17th, 2017 (0)

While improvements in processors and software solutions have catalyzed major advances in high performance computing, the need for customizable performance is an ever-present challenge for organizations that rely on HPC systems. The latest generation of HPC-optimized processors have delivered ...