Doug Black

Latest DDN Launch Fills out its WOS Object Storage Line

September 14th, 2016 (0)

DataDirect Networks (DDN) today introduced a third member to its WOS object storage product line, the WOS 8460, aimed at active archive and collaboration use cases. Object storage, once mainly restricted to ‘cold’ archives for large quantities of unstructured ...

Brocade ‘Data Center Router’ Aimed at Future Network Traffic

September 13th, 2016 (0)

Brocade, the San Jose-based data and storage networking provider, today announced the SLX 9850 that the company bills as a data center routing solution designed to support exponential growth in network traffic. The new router provides the density, scale ...

Four Big IoT Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

September 13th, 2016 (0)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most recent wave of technology disruption, and it’s fundamentally changing how businesses operate, innovate and leverage their resources. While the IoT is most commonly thought of in the context of personal devices, ...

IoT at Alaska’s DoT: To De-ice or Not to De-Ice?

September 9th, 2016 (0)

It's still early days for the Internet of Things, much in the way of IoT platforms and infrastructure must evolve before “the connected society” encompassing tens of billions of connected devices comes fully into form. But having said that, ...

It’s Time to Dry Up the (IT) Waterfalls for Good

September 8th, 2016 (0)

Waterfalls are among the most beautiful spectacles in nature – the cascading water, the shimmering spray, the refracted light. “As long as I live,” John Muir wrote, “I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.” The waterfall model of ...

Facebook and Natural Disasters: Extreme Scale Data Center Resiliency

September 2nd, 2016 (0)

Fans of “The Social Network,” a movie about the early days of Facebook, (and one that, last we heard, Mark Zuckerberg has never seen), will remember the scene when the Eduardo Saverin character intentionally closes a bank account with ...

FinServe Big Data Analytics and the Cloud: Strategies and How To’s

August 31st, 2016 (0)

The future isn’t what it used to be in the financial services industry. The present isn’t, either. The past, for that matter, wasn’t as tranquil as might be thought. Roughly since the invention of the telegraph 175 years ago, ...

Nvidia Adds ‘Parker’ CPU to ‘Brain of Autonomous Vehicles’

August 25th, 2016 (0)

Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle strategy took a step forward this week with the announcement of a new mobile CPU, called “Parker,” offered to automakers as a single unit or integrated into the company’s DRIVE PX 2 platform, announced at CES ...

Data Lakes and Overcoming the Waste of ‘Data Janitor’ Duties

August 23rd, 2016 (0)

Data lakes solve a lot of problems in today's big data world. When properly designed, they serve as an efficient means for storing large volumes and varieties of data. A data lake's efficiency comes from its inverse approach to ...

NVIDIA Cries Foul on Intel Phi AI Benchmarks

August 19th, 2016 (0)

This week saw the eruption of a vendor spat when NVIDIA, developer of GPUs widely used in the AI/machine learning market, alleged foul play against Intel in recent comparative benchmark results involving Intel’s Xeon Phi processors. While NVIDIA makes ...

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