OpenPower Looks to Accelerate Enterprise, HPC
At SC15 today, IBM provided a glimpse of its broadening vision for accelerator-assisted computing on Monday (Nov. 16) with announcements at the SC15 conference around Watson, a strategic alliance ...Full Article
DDN’s Bouzari on the Spread of Advanced Scale Computing into the Enterprise, and the Object-based ‘Connected Society’ of the Future
The entire HPC world – from traditional HPC research sites to advanced scale computing in the enterprise – is at a crossroads. Then again, has it ever not been? ...Full Article
Startup Floats First Commercial ‘Data Barge’
Datacenter operators have adopted a range of novel approaches to reducing energy consumption while boosting a key industry metric: power usage effectiveness, or PUE. These approaches range from building ...Full Article
SDN Scheme Aims to Cut Capital Markets Client Provisioning Delays
With the expansion of their global software-defined network (SDN) dedicated to the capital markets industry, Lucera Financial Infrastructures and fiber optics vendor Perseus assert they have cracked one of ...Full Article
More Partners Sign On to IBM Cloud
IBM rolled out new cloud developer services and tools this week while announcing a partnership with one of India's largest IT outsourcing vendors as it continues to extend its ...Full Article
The Rise of the Open-Source Platform
The success of closed-source companies (like Microsoft in the early days of the digital revolution) made it easy to write off open source as a niche movement with little real-world ...Full Article
All-Flash Startup Leverages QoS as a ‘Differentiator’
With all-flash arrays making inroads into enterprise storage infrastructure, the growing list of vendors of PCIe flash arrays are looking for ways to differentiate themselves while persuading potential customers ...Full Article
Cloud Vendors Address EU Safe Harbor Ruling
Cloud vendors are responding to last month's data privacy ruling by a European court with security upgrades to cloud storage and orchestration services aimed at helping customers meet stricter ...Full Article
Verizon Survey: Hybrid Cloud Now ‘Mainstream’
Verizon's annual report on enterprise cloud adoption argues that a shift is underway from embracing the cloud for mission-critical workloads to a more aggressive use of cloud platforms to ...Full Article
Red Hat Previews Atomic Container Host
Red Hat launched a lightweight Linux container host initiative last year called "Project Atomic" just as the application container movement was gaining market momentum. The company said this week ...Full Article
