From ransomware to server failures to user errors, the online threat environment is increasingly complex. Outages aren’t a matter of if but when. As IT teams execute their disaster recovery plans to remediate breaches and service failures, there’s still the issue of keeping the business running and data intact. This is where IT resilience comes ...Full article
The energy industry was an early adopter of supercomputing; in fact, energy companies have the most powerful supercomputers in the commercial world. And although HPC in the energy sector is almost exclusively associated with seismic workloads, it also plays a critical role with renewables as well, reflecting the growing maturity of that vertical. The largest ...Full article
Among the complaints of enterprises considering hybrid cloud deployments are integration issues, application incompatibility along with a lack of development tools and common APIs. Hence, vendors of collaborative software development tools and platforms are gaining traction with managed workflows designed to speed the development, testing and deployment of software code. Among them is San Francisco-based ...Full article
While global server shipments remained roughly flat during the second quarter, cloud services are expected to billow this year on the strength of growing infrastructure and application software services. Market tracker Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) forecast this week that public cloud services would grow 17.2 percent this year to more than $208 billion. Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service ...Full article
DataDirect Networks (DDN) today introduced a third member to its WOS object storage product line, the WOS 8460, aimed at active archive and collaboration use cases. Object storage, once mainly restricted to ‘cold’ archives for large quantities of unstructured data – think content delivery networks (CDN) used in conjunction with the web – has been ...Full article
Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. continues to invest in enterprise infrastructure developers, leading an early funding round and forming a partnership with bare metal server automation startup Packet. The partners announced a $9.4 million Series A funding round on Wednesday (Sept. 14) along with a strategic partnership that will bring Packet's bare metal cloud services aimed ...Full article
Brocade, the San Jose-based data and storage networking provider, today announced the SLX 9850 that the company bills as a data center routing solution designed to support exponential growth in network traffic. The new router provides the density, scale and performance for 10/40/100 GbE data center use cases. The SLX 9850 router includes the Brocade’s ...Full article
Despite an alarming increase in the frequency and severity of cyber attacks, enterprises large and small claim they are doing enough to mitigate the effects of a data breach. New data released this week by market analyst Juniper Research indicates that a whopping 86 percent of U.K. enterprises responding to a recent survey believe they ...Full article
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most recent wave of technology disruption, and it’s fundamentally changing how businesses operate, innovate and leverage their resources. While the IoT is most commonly thought of in the context of personal devices, such as wearables, home security and household appliances, commercial applications are increasingly becoming a tool for ...Full article
Already entrenched in the deep learning community for neural net training, Nvidia wants to secure its place as the go-to chipmaker for datacenter inferencing. At the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Beijing today (Tuesday), Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the latest additions to the Tesla line, Pascal-based P4 and P40 GPU accelerators, as well as new software ...Full article
As more vendors unveil their enterprise-grade distributions of OpenStack Mitaka released in the spring, developers are already preparing the launch of the new OpenStack upgrade dubbed Newton. Several vendors including Red Hat and OpenStack cofounder Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) have released cloud distributions based on Mitaka. Rackspace said Monday (Sept. 12) its private cloud based on ...Full article
A retired Air Force General has been tapped to be the nation's first chief information security officer, the Obama administration announced this week. Retired Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill previously served as director of command, control, communications and cyber systems at the U.S. Transportation Command. Touhill currently serves as a deputy in the Department of Homeland ...Full article
It's still early days for the Internet of Things, much in the way of IoT platforms and infrastructure must evolve before “the connected society” encompassing tens of billions of connected devices comes fully into form. But having said that, IoT systems are already in place handling critical workloads. In Alaska, at the state’s Department of ...Full article
Waterfalls are among the most beautiful spectacles in nature – the cascading water, the shimmering spray, the refracted light. “As long as I live,” John Muir wrote, “I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.” The waterfall model of IT delivery, however? Not so nice. The waterfall methodology has been widely discredited in recent years, ...Full article
As at least one competitor gets bigger, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) got smaller this week with an $8.8 billion spinoff and merger of its software unit with staid software vendor Micro Focus. HPE (NYSE: HPE) and Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L) also announced plans this week to form a partnership that will name the U.K.-based vendor's SUSE ...Full article
Not long after revealing more details about its next-gen Power9 chip due in 2017, IBM has rolled out three new Power8-based Linux servers and a new version of its Power8 chip featuring on-chip NVLink interconnect. One of the servers – Power S822LC for High Performance Computing – uses the new chip (Power8 with NVLink) to ...Full article
If bigger is better, the new IT behemoth Dell Technologies Inc. that combines the holdings of Dell and storage leader EMC Corp. fits the bill with the completion a $60 billion merger of cloud, storage, virtualization and hardware components that will seek to be all things to all enterprise IT customers. "We think scale matters," ...Full article
Intel Corp. is acquiring low-power machine vision specialist Movidius in a bid to bolster its embedded visual computing capabilities. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced Tuesday (Sept. 6) it was buying the developer of low power chips to accelerate the integration of machine vision to connected devices. The roster includes drones, robots and virtual reality headsets, the ...Full article
Fans of “The Social Network,” a movie about the early days of Facebook, (and one that, last we heard, Mark Zuckerberg has never seen), will remember the scene when the Eduardo Saverin character intentionally closes a bank account with funds that keep Facebook online. The outraged Zuckerberg character tells him: “Okay, let me tell you ...Full article
An estimated 41 percent of enterprise workloads are currently running in public and private clouds, a total that is expected to rise to 60 percent over the next two years as enterprise embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure for emerging applications such as analytics and distributed business applications. In a survey of cloud deployment models released Thursday ...Full article
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