Author Archives: Doug Black
Doug Black
Targeting HPC and AI, ARM Acquires Tools Vendor Allinea
December 16th, 2016
Allinea Software, whose cross-platform development and performance analysis tools are used by 80 percent of the world’s top 25 supercomputers, has been acquired by ARM Ltd., which said the move strengthens its HPC offering for both scientific and business ...
OpenIO Takes on x86-based Object Storage TCO
December 15th, 2016
OpenIO has announced a new object storage appliance that combines its open source storage software with an ARM-based Marvell chassis that OpenIO said is priced at a fraction of x86-based storage technologies. Aimed at cloud and telco service providers, ...
AMD Reveals ‘Instinct’ for Machine Intelligence
December 13th, 2016
At the AMD Tech Summit in Sonoma, Calif., last week (Dec. 7-9), CEO Lisa Su unveiled the company’s vision to accelerate machine intelligence over the next five to ten years with an open and heterogeneous computing approach and a new suite ...
Treat Your Databases as Cattle, not Pets
December 12th, 2016
Today, databases have to be treated like pets. Each is special and receives individualized care and attention. At scale, and with the need for greater agility, the issue of maintaining large numbers of pet databases becomes a problem. This ...
Managing 30B Bid Requests, 1.5B Users per Day in (near) Real Time
December 9th, 2016
At the beating heart of the mobile advertising industry is what Ellen DeGeneres calls “our ADD culture.” It’s predicated on delivering up-to-date content in real time while people are doing, or trying to do, something else: checking a stock ...
Qualcomm Targets Intel Data Center Dominance with 10nm ARM-based Server Processor
December 8th, 2016
Claiming no less than a reshaping of the future of Intel-dominated datacenter computing, Qualcomm Technologies, the market leader in smartphone chips, announced the forthcoming availability of what it says is the world’s first 10nm processor for servers, based on ...
How Retailers Can Fend Off FlokiBot Malware
December 7th, 2016
The holiday shopping season is upon us, and with increased retail activity there is a corresponding increase in security threats. While many are concerned with online shopping, in-store retail sales are just as susceptible to hackers looking to take ...
Yahoo! Japan: 50TB/Day Data Transfer in Trans-Pacific Search for Lower Energy Costs
December 6th, 2016
Transferring data from one data center to another in search of lower regional energy costs isn’t a new concept, but Yahoo! Japan is putting the idea into transcontinental effect with a system that transfers 50TB of data a day ...
Exabytes Hit the Road with AWS Snowmobile
December 1st, 2016
Big data, meet your big rig. Amazon Web Services took containerization technology to new levels yesterday when it unveiled plans to use 45-foot trailers equipped with scads of disk and fast fiber optic connections to help customers upload 100 ...
Amazon Adds AI, SQL to Analytics Arsenal
December 1st, 2016
By any measure, Amazon Web Services is already a monster in the field of analytics via pre-built Hadoop, Redshift, Kinesis, and deep learning services. With today’s unveiling of its new Amazon AI offering and a new ad-hoc query mechanism ...
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