Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan

Timothy Prickett Morgan

Enterprises Gravitate To Amazon’s Cloud

November 12th, 2014 (0)

If there is a consistent message coming out of Amazon Web Services from its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, it is that enterprise adoption of Amazon’s public cloud is on the rise. Private and public organizations are ...

HGST Speeds Disk Design Work By 90X

November 11th, 2014 (0)

HGST, the disk drive business formerly owned by IBM and then Hitachi that is now part of Western Digital, is in a constant battle with Seagate Technology and a slew of upstarts peddling other kinds of storage based on ...

Prodigal Cray CTO Looks Ahead To Converged Analytics

November 10th, 2014 (0)

At the end of the summer, Steve Scott, the chief technology officer who brought many of Cray's interconnects and systems to life in the past several decades, came back to the company after taking key roles at graphics chip ...

AutoTrader.com Shifts Up Automation Gears

November 7th, 2014 (0)

Like many enterprises, AutoTrader.com is on a journey from physical machines running distinct parts of its application stack toward a virtualized and automated cloud that allows for more efficiency and flexibility. It is a long journey, and one that ...

Cramming 220 PB In A Modular Datacenter

November 6th, 2014 (0)

Don't try to lift this by yourself. In the search for ever-cheaper and ever-denser storage, the customers that drive the Data Center Solutions unit at Dell have asked the company to forge a storage-heavy dual-node server that could cram ...

Dell Pushes Up Server Density With FX

November 5th, 2014 (0)

Since founding its Data Center Solutions unit back in May 2006, which began with a custom server drawn on the back of a bar napkin at the Driskell Hotel in Austin, Texas, Dell has learned a lot about the ...

Google Leverages Container Expertise On Its Cloud

November 4th, 2014 (0)

Google may not be the first of the major public cloud operators to support Docker containers, but it aims to provide the best support for the popular container format. Docker, a lightweight virtualization technology that leverages many innovations that ...

New Dell GM Talks System Trends

November 4th, 2014 (0)

It has been a year now since Dell took itself private and removed itself from the prying eyes of Wall Street investors. The company had its share of drama as it went private, and its main rivals in the ...

Private Clone S3 Object Storage On A Massive Scale

November 3rd, 2014 (0)

In the hyperscale world, snippets of data pile up like mountains and a traditional file system that allows data to be updated is not only inappropriate, but too slow to serve up that data. This is precisely why object ...

Benefit From Microsoft’s Open Compute Hyperscale Designs

October 30th, 2014 (0)

All large companies, whether they are hyperscale datacenter operators or cloud providers or they are enterprises supporting a diverse mix of workloads, wrestle with the polar opposites of creating unique systems to run particular applications and offering standard systems ...