An open source option will be combined with flash storage as part of an alliance unveiled this week in a bid to make scale-out storage easier and cheaper. Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) and SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK) said Tuesday (March 29) their alliance would combine the Milpitas, Calif., flash specialist's InfiniFlash with Red Hat ...Full article
IBM is expanding its embrace of Apache Spark with the release of a mainframe platform that would allow the emerging open-source analytics framework to run natively on the company's mainframe operating system. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Tuesday (March 29) its z/OS platform for Apache Spark aims to make it easier to access and analyze data ...Full article
The annual EnterpriseHPC Summit, produced by EnterpriseTech and HPCwire and held in San Diego this week, featured presentations and participation from some of the major thought leaders at the forefront of bringing advanced scale computing into commercial environments. With delegates from leading vendors (Dell, Intel, DDN and EMC, among others) and from end user organizations ...Full article
A series of ransomware attacks directed at U.S. hospitals is highlighting the vulnerability of private health records as hackers prey on healthcare facilities with the ability to pay. The latest example surfaced this week at Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Ky., which declared an "internal state of emergency" after hackers easily penetrated its IT infrastructure. Ransomware ...Full article
Mesosphere, the datacenter operating system startup working at the nexus of hyper-scale application development and cloud-based delivery of micro-services, announced a $73.5 million "strategic" investment round led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and joined by new investor Microsoft Corp. San Francisco-based Mesosphere also on Thursday (March 24) released the latest version of its Marathon container orchestration ...Full article
Intel Corp.'s plan to combine its next Xeon processor with a batch of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) along with ongoing collaboration with Facebook aims to accelerate a growing array of datacenter workloads, the partners said. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced plans during the recent Open Compute Project (OCP) summit to deliver libraries based on the ...Full article
Mellanox Technologies will announce an “important milestone” on the road to high data rate 200Gb/s InfiniBand and Ethernet networks during the Optical Fiber Conference this week in Anaheim, Calif. The company will demonstrate 50 Gb/s silicon photonics optical modulators and detectors, which will comprise key elements of 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s LinkX cables and transceivers. ...Full article
Getting enterprise applications out the door faster and into production is becoming a key task for harried DevOps teams. The barrier to faster deployment, according to an emerging group of tool vendors, is the inability to quickly scale applications once they gain traction and demand for them grows across networks. The latest attempt to speed ...Full article
Application container pioneers continue to roll out new security features as micro-services shift to primetime. The latest comes from upstart CoreOS, which introduced a new container image analyzer designed to provide developers with greater visibility into vulnerabilities that could undermine container security. San Francisco-based CoreOS, which launched an early version of its image security tool ...Full article
Short of shooting three-pointers and grabbing rebounds, advanced data analytics has taken on a pivotal role for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association, driving nearly every aspect of the organization’s relationship with its fans in one of the most sophisticated data-driven marketing and operations strategies in professional sports. The Magic partnered last year ...Full article
Black Friday is now a distant memory. But the next one is never less than 356 days away, so pundits are analyzing the results of shopper habits during the last holiday buying season and what they ultimately mean for the future of retail. Here’s one key example: This was the first year online shoppers outnumbered ...Full article
Most observers agree that enterprises must brace for the expected onslaught of unstructured data to be generated by the Internet of Things (IoT). The problem, according to a recent study, is that most of the proposed solutions for handling the data flood won't work. A recent Gartner report exploring the impact of IoT on enterprise ...Full article
ARM Ltd., the U.K. chip design and licensing vendor, is targeting datacenters and processors intended for high-performance computing in a chip process technology deal with the world's largest chip foundry. ARM (LSE: ARM, NASDAQ: ARMH) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (NYSE: TSM) announced a multiyear agreement this week to collaborate on leading-edge 7-nanometer FinFET process ...Full article
DataDirect Networks (DDN), the advanced scale storage market leader, this morning announced a high-performance network attached storage (NAS) solution designed to keep pace with the data onslaught in the financial services, life sciences, web/cloud services and manufacturing industries. The GS14K is part of DDN’s GRIDScaler product line and delivers the industry’s fastest NAS performance, according ...Full article
Storage specialist Pivot3, which recently acquired flash array startup NexGen Storage Inc., said this week it has completed a $55 million funding round as it rolls out an expanded portfolio of hyper-converged and flash storage options. Pivot3 said Tuesday (March 15) that Argonaut Private Equity and S3 Ventures provided equity financing. As part of the ...Full article
The ability to sweep up, store and organize vast amounts of data, then turn the connections among data points into insights and strategies is creating new revenue streams for enterprises. But what happens when stored data reaches its freshness "expiration date"? As more enterprises look to get a handle on storage and other costs via ...Full article
Across the technology industry it is a shared value that workforce diversity is a good thing – morally good and good for business. Yet most companies remain tenaciously male. Airbnb was one of those companies, despite its recognition that gender uniformity could limit its ability to relate to its two-sided market (rentees and renters) and ...Full article
The basis for an application container scheme continues to evolve as a group seeking to align competing technologies announced acceptance of a container orchestration platform developed by Google. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation said its technical oversight panel has accepted the Kubernetes container orchestrator. Intellectual property underlying the orchestration system also has been transferred to ...Full article
The stampede to the cloud is on. Renting cycles if only for workload bursts is by now commonplace. Statistical and anecdotal evidence validates that at least partial adoption of the cloud has become so widespread that it doesn’t takes great powers of extrapolation to wonder: How long before nearly everything is run in the cloud? ...Full article
Facebook executives touted the advantages of its datacenter "building blocks" approach during the Open Compute Project (OCP) summit as a way to achieve flexibility and faster scaling. Meanwhile, it also detailed datacenter processing and storage projects with chipmaker Intel Corp. Jay Parikh, Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) vice president of engineering and infrastructure, noted during the OCP ...Full article
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