Rackspace Jumps on Container Bandwagon with Carina
Rackspace used this week's OpenStack Summit in Tokyo to jump on the application container bandwagon with a native container environment. Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) said its Carina container environment combines ...Full Article
Genomics Workflows Get a Boost
Accelerating genomics analysis remains one of the toughest challenges in life science research. All manner of optimizations are in use – disk streaming, optimized parallel files systems, algorithm tweaks, ...Full Article
Filling Storage Gap Could Boost OpenStack Deployments
As OpenStack cloud deployments slowly grow, so too do nagging concerns about complexity and the persistent difficulty of installing the open source platform, including much configuring and customizing. As ...Full Article
Women Technologists Tell How to Succeed at Diversity, Inclusion
As technology reshapes industry, female engineers and computer scientists are reshaping their companies and the world. From leading advanced scale computing initiatives to heading digital startups and everything in ...Full Article
International Markets Beckon HPC Makers
Whether they're looking to better serve multi-national conglomerates or reach new customers abroad, makers of advanced scale systems are expanding their efforts to reach customers across the world. Recognizing the ...Full Article
Survey: Database Shift to Cloud Fuels Competition
As relational and analytic databases move from the datacenter to the cloud, a new survey finds most enterprises are sticking with incumbents as they adopt database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings. In ...Full Article
IronNet, Founded by Ex-NSA Boss, Gains Funding
A cybersecurity startup with a wealth of insider knowledge and a plan to leverage high-performance computing along with advanced visualization techniques has attracted the attention of well-known investors. IronNet ...Full Article
Oracle Cloud Adds Data Visualization
The database giant adds to its growing big data stack with a cloud-based data visualization service.Full Article
Enterprise Apps: Too Complicated for Mobile Workers
Enterprise applications and the IT infrastructure used to deliver them remain too complex, prompting some to bypass sanctioned enterprise tools and instead use consumer applications to get done what ...Full Article
EMC, VMware Raise Eyebrows With Cloud Spinoff
The proposed $67 billion merger of Dell Inc., storage giant EMC Corp. and its VMware Inc. subsidiary got more complicated this week when the future Dell units unexpectedly announced ...Full Article
