Doug Black

BSC Presents Plan to Energize Europe’s Big Data Efforts

October 5th, 2016 (0)

Researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputer Center today presented the big data roadmap commissioned by the EU as part of the RETHINK big project intended to identify technology goals, obstacles and actions for developing a more effective big data infrastructure ...

So Long Single-Protocol Storage Network; Hello Intelligent Storage Infrastructure

October 5th, 2016 (0)

IT departments everywhere are looking for new ways to improve the business impact of their storage networks — such as adopting cloud or hyper-converged architectures. This has been translated by some industry watchers as marking the end of dedicated ...

The ‘Insight-Driven Business’: How to Become a Master of the Data Universe

October 3rd, 2016 (0)

Masters of the Data Universe: Uber, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Google. We know who they are. They hire genius data scientists who wrestle data into submission, building elite analytics superstructures that light up their data and reveal insights about their ...

IBM Project DataWorks: Joining Multi-Sourced Data for AI-based Analytics

September 27th, 2016 (0)

IBM’s aggressive push into the data analytics market continued today with the announcement of Project DataWorks, a Watson initiative that IBM said is the first cloud-based data and analytics platform to integrate all types of data and enable AI-powered ...

New Commercial CAE Code Scaling Record Claimed

September 27th, 2016 (0)

SGI, the old-line supercomputing vendor recently acquired by HPE, has teamed with ANSYS, the product engineering and simulation software company, to set a new world record for scaling commercial CAE code. According to SGI, the two companies broke a ...

The Capital Markets Industry’s ‘Unsustainable Cost Model’: A Technology Strategy

September 24th, 2016 (0)

Greed, fear and regulations have historically driven the capital markets industry. But with today’s rising regulatory regime and its attendant costs, the driving factors have boiled down to fear and regulations. Greed has been swamped by compliance requirements that, ...

Composable Infrastructure: Equal Treatment for Modern and Traditional Apps

September 22nd, 2016 (0)

Most enterprises have a mix of modern apps that need adaptable infrastructure support and traditional software supported by old school IT. CIOs tend to solve this problem by focusing all internal development on traditional IT needs and writing checks ...

Shedding Light on Dark Data in the IoT Era

September 21st, 2016 (0)

Gartner Group forecasts that nearly 26 billion devices, from sensors, to medical diagnostic to tools, thermostats and cars, will be connected to the Internet by 2020. In this era of the Internet of Things (IoT), the enormous amounts of ...

Why Disaster Recovery Isn’t Resilience

September 19th, 2016 (0)

From ransomware to server failures to user errors, the online threat environment is increasingly complex. Outages aren’t a matter of if but when. As IT teams execute their disaster recovery plans to remediate breaches and service failures, there’s still ...

Wind Turbines and Democratized Data Analytics: Turning Chaos into Order

September 17th, 2016 (0)

The energy industry was an early adopter of supercomputing; in fact, energy companies have the most powerful supercomputers in the commercial world. And although HPC in the energy sector is almost exclusively associated with seismic workloads, it also plays ...

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