Spreading Spark Enterprise-wide
Spark is in in the spotlight. Companies with big data analytics needs are increasingly looking at the open source framework for lightning quick in-memory performance – reputedly up to ...Full Article
Data Platforms Supplying ‘Smarts’ to the Power Grid
Software is defining and redefining everything from datacenters to the energy infrastructure delivering the power to run IT infrastructure. Software-defined power distribution that also incorporates predictive analytics to forecast ...Full Article
‘Shelfware,’ Software Audit Costs on the Rise
Corporations are often looking for ways to automate their operations to save money as a way to "lower overhead." Software, rather than hiring another worker, is usually seen as ...Full Article
Puppet Labs Secures Rainy Day Loan, Plans Expansion
Global economic turmoil is prompting some IT executives to hedge their bets in the new year as they monitor China's slowdown while trying to divine whether stock markets are ...Full Article
Towards Ubiquitous HPC — Passing HPC into the Hands of Every Engineer and Scientist
Countless case studies demonstrate impressively the importance of HPC for engineering and scientific insight, product innovation, and market competitiveness. But so far HPC was mostly in the hands of ...Full Article
Here’s What 6 Smart People Say Enterprise Technology Managers Should Pay Attention to in 2016
Want a prediction that’s a lock for this, and every, year? The pace of innovation in advanced scale computing will accelerate. The spread of HPC into the commercial realm ...Full Article
Standards Group Eyes Industry Consensus on Containers
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) launched earlier this year to develop industry standards for Linux-based containers said this week it has established a governing structure to oversee technical details ...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
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
‘API Economy’ Gets Boost With Open Spec Initiative
A new open source initiative backed by application and service vendors as well as enterprise users aims to extend an emerging development framework to become an open API industry ...Full Article
