The steady shift toward purchasing IT "as a service" is accelerating the decentralization of infrastructure management, fostering growing security concerns as more enterprises shift operations to the cloud, according to study commissioned by VMware Inc. The company (NYSE: VMW) pointed to growing concerns about IT fragmentation and the resulting security gaps to pitch its "cross-cloud ...Full article
The cloud is the future of enterprise IT. According to a study by Rightscale, 88 percent of enterprise organizations are using public cloud and 63 percent are using private cloud – and estimates show that these numbers will continue to grow larger every year. But with so many companies ready to invest, there is still ...Full article
Add machine-learning specialist Wise.io and data ingestion platform vendor Bit Stew Systems to the list of acquisitions by GE Digital, which also this week released an operating system for the industrial Internet designed to extend its Predix technology stack. For starters, the industrial giant (NYSE: GE) announced it was buying Wise.io, the machine learning algorithm ...Full article
The rapid growth in technology that can be trained, that infers, that continually learns from information contained in enormous data sets, all the while generating strong ROI on strategic initiatives, dominated ICD’s annual HPC market report presented yesterday at SC16 in Salt Lake City. “High performance data analytics (HPDA) is where Big Data and HPC ...Full article
A range of object and software-defined storage options are emerging to tackle soaring data volumes driven by mobile devices at the network edge along with the movement of data among multiple clouds. For starters, the Hitachi Data Systems unit of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501) rolled out a new object storage platform on Tuesday (Nov. 15) ...Full article
Last year at SC15, IBM offered its vision of an accelerator-assisted computing paradigm enabled by the OpenPOWER ecosystem of diverse partners and focused on cognitive computing as the key application driver. Since then, Big Blue has been busily productizing the vision and today announced PowerAI, a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) tools optimized for IBM’s ...Full article
Nimbix is the latest HPC cloud vendor to collaborate with FPGA pioneer Xilinx Inc. to accelerate cloud datacenter workflows that increasingly include computing-intensive data analytics, machine learning and video processing workloads. The partners announced the availability Monday (Nov. 14) of a software-defined Xilinx development platform for deploying workflows accelerated by FPGAs in the Nimbix cloud. ...Full article
The rapid emergence AI and machine learning within the HPC and advance scale computing industries looks to be a dominant topic – from vendor product announcements to analyst market forecasts to end user presentations – at next week’s SC16 conference in Salt Lake City. The AI theme starts with the keynote address from former IBM ...Full article
There’s Big Data, and then there’s the oceanic volume of external and machine data processed to generate a weather forecast of, let’s say, the upcoming 30 years. In such an at-scale environment, it’s doubly difficult to get insights about usage patterns and which users or workloads are impacting performance and capacity. But this is the ...Full article
The intersection of HPC and AI is creating a vibrant new market: “High Performance Artificial Intelligence” (HPAI) that is fueling the growth of AI platforms and products. After decades of slow progress, HPC has given AI the boost it needed to be taken seriously. Enabled by supercomputing technologies, HPC techniques such as deep learning are ...Full article
The European Union is expanding its efforts to promote energy-efficient computing with funding for hardware research aimed at next-generation high-end processors. "The European Commission wants Europe to avail of a new family of processors with a significantly better energy/performance ratio compared to current offerings, specifically tailored for high-performance, low-power server-side applications," Sandro D’Elia of ...Full article
In 2016, the cyber landscape shifted dramatically – at least on the adversary side. In the last few months alone, we’ve seen hackers penetrate organizations from the DNC to WADA and gain access to sensitive documents, which were weaponized through strategic leaks aimed at embarrassing specific individuals. While some may believe this trend starts and ...Full article
Perhaps stealing a bit of OpenHPC’s SC16 thunder, ARM announced today that ARMv8-A will be the first alternative architecture with OpenHPC support and part of OpenHPC version 1.2 released at SC16. The announcement came in a blog by Darren Cepulis of ARM. Late last month Figen Ulgen, of Intel and an OpenHPC board member, suggested ...Full article
Weeks after forging a Linux partnership with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), OpenStack and Linux specialist SUSE said it is acquiring the software-defined storage management framework of German technology firm IT-Novum that includes an open-source Ceph storage project. SUSE, Nuremberg, Germany, said this week the deal is its first acquisition since the enterprise software company was founded ...Full article
In an attempt to rise above the hype and examine the hard economic and technical data about the Internet of Things (IoT), a new study released by a venture capital firm finds that "grassroots entrepreneurial activity still appears moderately healthy" despite signs of a slowdown while the industrial IoT continues to forge ahead. The IoT ...Full article
The second generation of SAP's HANA platform jumps on the micro-services bandwagon by emphasizing upgrades to the in-memory platform that speed development and deployment of distributed applications while adding data and workload management tools to streamline IT operations. In a twist, the company also said it would work with a European reinsurer to leverage satellite ...Full article
Ahead of next week’s SC16 conference, high end storage vendor DataDirect Networks today announced a raft of product line updates, including a new burst buffer appliance and updates to its block and file storage appliances, along with what DDN says is the fastest multi-level security solution for Lustre aimed at HPC-level performance in markets with ...Full article
Microsoft moved this week to expand its Azure cloud container service with the release of extended native support for the Kubernetes cloud orchestrator along with upgraded support for Mesosphere datacenter operating system (DC/OS). The software giant (NASDAQ: MSFT) rolled out the cloud-native container initiatives during a conference in Seattle this week sponsored by the Cloud ...Full article
HPC has always been a fountain of innovations that eventually become mainstream. These innovations have been both technological as well as in business models. HPC’s long history of fostering entrepreneurship and creating new markets is well established. What we see now is a growing opportunity for HPC practitioners to lead the new wave of products, ...Full article
Another batch of management tools targeting application containers emerged this week as vendors continue to plug holes in the emerging micro-services ecosystem while extending the capabilities of leading container platforms. For starters, ClusterHQ said it would beta release a pair of container management tools next week: the first to share and store Docker container volumes; ...Full article
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