Doug Black

Gartner: Virtualization, Slack Value Props put Server Sales in Funk

November 30th, 2016 (0)

Citing conservative global spending, easy access to virtual machines and a need for reinvigorated vendor value propositions, industry watcher Gartner Group reported today that worldwide server revenues declined 5.8 percent in the third quarter of 2016 year over year, ...

American Airlines Tabs IBM for 1st Public Cloud PCI-Compliant System

November 29th, 2016 (0)

American Airlines has selected IBM Cloud as its public cloud services provider to develop, among other enterprise systems, what IBM said will be the industry’s first PCI-compliant ecommerce solution on a shared cloud platform. The multi-year deal builds on ...

Container Security and the Multi-cloud Control Plane: More than Just the Image

November 29th, 2016 (0)

A cynic might conclude that “image” has more than a little to do with the phenomenal interest in containers and microservices right now. But just like the security required beyond the “image,” container technology is now beginning to offer ...

HPE Announces Flash Price Buster Initiative; Demos “The Machine”

November 28th, 2016 (0)

Coming in at less than half the price that it says public clouds charge for flash storage, HPE today announced a new initiative that delivers all-flash HPE 3PAR StoreServ starting at $0.03 per usable GB per month. HPE also ...

Disney and the Details: 400,000 Hairs on a Field Mouse

November 23rd, 2016 (0)

Creating the make-believe world of Disney Animation is no doubt the result of arduous work. Still, it’s harder than you might think, consuming Top500-class supercomputing resources that produce an eye popping level of detail (400,000 hairs on the rendering ...

Intel Details AI Hardware Strategy for Post-GPU Age

November 22nd, 2016 (0)

Last week at SC16, Intel revealed its product roadmap for embedding its processors with key capabilities and attributes needed to take artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. It also used its Intel AI Day event in San Francisco on ...

Like Water from the Tap: Allocating Storage with a Composable Data Fabric

November 22nd, 2016 (0)

I live in Colorado, where our water comes mostly from snow melt. We see a lot of snow, which means water is plentiful. When I turn on the tap, I don’t think about where it comes from or what ...

The State of Cybersecurity: Be More Afraid

November 18th, 2016 (0)

Looming behind the excitement at SC16 around new digital enterprise strategies is the growing menace of cyber-attacks. But in spite of these worries, the state of cybersecurity readiness at too many companies is woefully inadequate. That’s the finding of Bob ...

Four Must-Knows Before Adopting Cloud Technology

November 17th, 2016 (0)

The cloud is the future of enterprise IT. According to a study by Rightscale, 88 percent of enterprise organizations are using public cloud and 63 percent are using private cloud – and estimates show that these numbers will continue ...

IDC at SC16: AI, HPDA Driving HPC into High Growth Markets

November 16th, 2016 (0)

The rapid growth in technology that can be trained, that infers, that continually learns from information contained in enormous data sets, all the while generating strong ROI on strategic initiatives, dominated ICD’s annual HPC market report presented yesterday at ...

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