In a potential blow to IBM’s efforts to carve out a major share of the intensely competitive public cloud services market, Facebook is reportedly in the process of moving its chat platform off IBM's SoftLayer cloud. Cable network CNBC cited a source "close to the company" as saying Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) intends shift its WhatsApp ...Full article
Cross project integration is not exactly prevalent in today’s open source ecosystem, and it’s a problem. Open source projects that enable large scale collaboration and are built on a layered and modular architecture – such as Linux – have proven their success time and again. But the Linux ideology stands in stark contrast to the ...Full article
For each front-line combat soldier there are 10 soldiers laboring behind the lines on logistics and supplies, so goes the military axiom; similarly, it’s been observed that for every salesperson pushing product for a manufacturing company there’s a field service technician maintaining those products in the field. For “asset intensive” industries, maintaining equipment is a ...Full article
An ambitious astronomy effort designed to peer back to the origins of the universe and map the formation of galaxies is underpinned by an emerging memory technology that seeks to move computing resources closer to huge astronomy data sets. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is an international initiative to build the world's largest radio telescope. ...Full article
As deputy chair of Industrial Day at ISC next week, my goal is to help bring clarity to the key opportunities and challenges afforded by HPC-scale technologies, including the specific barriers commercial companies are likely to encounter as they deploy new solutions or upgrade existing ones. Our Industrial Day agenda will focus on choosing infrastructure ...Full article
Docker is expanding it presence in China. The application container leader said June 9 it has launched a cloud-based registry providing local access to Docker images as well as other open source content. Docker will manage the image repository that will be hosted in China by the Alibaba cloud service. Local access is expected ...Full article
Billed as one of the largest national genome medical research projects in the world, Sidra Medical and Research Center in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, in partnership with IBM, has embarked on the Qatar Genome Program (QGP), an effort to collect and perform analytics on genomic profiles of hundreds of thousands of Qatari citizens. ...Full article
The downside to the vibrant open source software sector is a supply chain rife with security vulnerabilities and clogged with outdated versions of widely used software components, a new report warns. The survey released Friday (June 9) by chip design specialist Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) found that widely publicized vulnerabilities such as the Heartbleed bug ...Full article
The ways that advanced computing performance depends on more – much more – than the processor take many forms. Regardless of Moore’s Law's validity, it’s indisputable that other aspects of the computing ecosystem must keep pace with the processor if the system is to deliver the results everyone’s after. One aspect is the performance of ...Full article
Amazon Web Services has extended its Internet of Things offerings with the launch a new platform designed to boost computing power for devices at the network edge via its public cloud. AWS Greengrass unveiled on Wednesday (June 7) aims to connect local devices to the public cloud service via its Lambda software to provide local ...Full article
New data points emerged this week indicating that all-flash storage arrays are beginning to make headway in datacenters as server sales continue to decline. Market researcher Dell'Oro Group reported that all-flash array market revenue grew a healthy 48 percent on an annual basis during the first quarter to more than $1.3 billion. All-flash arrays were ...Full article
As storage costs decline on a Moore's Law curve, technology vendors seeking to drive storage capacity and enterprises leveraging that stored data for new applications agree that we have plenty of data available but remain woefully short on wisdom. As more connected devices fuel the data explosion, a growing problem for storage and analytics providers ...Full article
MapR Technologies today announced a major rebranding and repositioning of the data storage layer of its converged data platform. MapR-XD, as the data store is now known, provides the mechanism for customers to build a unified data fabric that stretches from edge devices, into the data center, and out to public clouds. The San Jose ...Full article
After eight years in quiet development under the stewardship of Silicon Valley veteran and CRM pioneer Tom Siebel, C3 IoT’s “full stack” IoT Platform-as-a-Service has created a stir since coming out of stealth earlier this year. In fact, it’s a company that industry analysts say may have stolen a march on competitors in the nascent ...Full article
A day after announcing lackluster quarterly results as IT hardware demand declines, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and software-defined storage startup Hedvig Inc. announced a hybrid cloud storage platform customized for HPE servers. The partners said Thursday (June 1) they have initially bundled Hedvig's software-defined storage with HPE's Apollo 4200 servers to create a distributed storage platform aimed ...Full article
Slowing demand for servers and related networking hardware cut deeply into Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's quarterly revenues, the company reported this week. The 13 percent decline in revenues for the second quarter ending April 30 was the steepest for the company's enterprise group since its launch in November 2015. Overall, HPE's quarterly revenue totaled $9.9 billion. HPE ...Full article
It is human nature to hold on to things after they’ve outlived their usefulness. The history of IT and technology is replete with similar examples of technologies that just won’t die. Analytic is no different. Organizations cling to old technologies that reflect an old way of doing business, and this is holding them back. Here ...Full article
The growing number of hybrid cloud deployments is accelerating demand for enterprise container infrastructure as companies seek a consistent application development environment across on-premise infrastructure to the cloud, a new survey finds. The study also found a substantial jump in the use of container orchestration tools in production. The container adoption survey released Wednesday (May ...Full article
In March, Nvidia revealed blueprints for a new open source Tesla GPU-based accelerator – HGX-1 – developed for clouds with Microsoft under its Project Olympus. Turns out HGX-1 was actually the first embodiment of Nvidia’s HGX reference architecture and partner program. Today Nvidia announced that is partnering with major ODMs — Foxconn, Inventec, Quanta and Wistron ...Full article
ARM Ltd. joined a growing roster of processor specialists zeroing in on artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with the introduction of two new processor cores, one emphasizing performance, and the other efficiency. The chip intellectual property vendor unveiled its high-end Cortex-A75 paired with its "high-efficiency" Cortex A-55 processors during this week's Computex 2017 event ...Full article
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