Data center outsourcing means forecasting power requirements for the duration of a contract, which typically lasts five to 10 years. With the pace of change in IT, changing business conditions for individual companies and the overall economy, the volatility of energy prices, and the fact that power comprises the majority of data center fees, this ...Full article
Two thousand and fifteen was a banner year for technology mergers and acquisitions, and market watchers predict that trend will accelerate in 2016 as buyers look beyond consolidation to expansion as technologies converge. Driving the M&A frenzy is technology giants like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sitting on large piles of cash along ...Full article
Perhaps not surprisingly hardware still accounts for the lion’s share (48%) of HPC budgets according to Intersect360 Research’s just released 2015 report – HPC Budget Allocation Map: HPC Budget Distribution. Server spending has been the top item the last five years, and edged up about two percent over 2014. Storage was second, again a repeat. ...Full article
We live in a time when a developer can build an app in six hours, release it to the world, do little to no marketing and still get 2.3 million downloads. We also live in a world where a network-centric app like Slack can go from zero to over 1.1 million daily users and $300 ...Full article
Shadow IT, the systems and solutions used inside organizations without explicit approval, are becoming a fact of life for most organizations. Indeed, industry studies estimate that nearly 30 percent of IT spending occurs outside the IT department, a total that is expected to rise by an estimated 5 percent over the next several years. Given ...Full article
As companies increasingly move portions of their advanced scale computing workloads to the cloud, at least one industry watcher warns that the lure of an instant, scalable virtual infrastructure with utility billing comes with plenty of caveat emptor price/performance variables. In an update to its public cloud benchmark released today, Cloud Spectator, a Boston-based IaaS watcher, ...Full article
Intellectual property has become the coin of the realm for technology enterprises. Hence, companies like IBM and high-flying global competitors like Samsung tout their growing patent portfolios as market indicators of unrelenting innovation—and future technology licensing deals. About this time each year, IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) reminds us of its long run as the undisputed ...Full article
New approaches to automating the management of open source software, especially emerging Linux-based application containers, are arriving at a steady pace from key open-source players and startups formed over the last several years to make enterprise DevOps teams' task a little less onerous. Among them are new security tools from Black Duck Software designed to ...Full article
The case is being made for applying big data technologies to the management of IT infrastructure, especially DevOps and cloud deployments. The concept, also known as "advanced operations analytics," is being used to boost service performance, improve security and elevate IT to the point where it becomes more than just a cost center in an ...Full article
A new report issued this week by the Federal Trade Commission applauds big data practitioners for helping to increase access to goods, services, healthcare, education, and employment. But the FTC also warned businesses and organizations to be aware of “hidden biases” that may creep into their calculations. In “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or ...Full article
Chances are, if you’re reading this article, you’re one of the many IT leaders looking at how hyper-convergence can help you better manage your enterprise data center infrastructure. Hyper-convergence is catching on in organizations of all sizes and across industries because it allows IT teams to simplify the deployment and management of virtualized resources. It ...Full article
Amazon.com crashed the semiconductor sector this week, announcing that its Annapurna Labs Inc. subsidiary would offer an ARM-based platform-on-a-chip targeting network-attached storage and networking applications. The new chips dubbed Alpine are based on 32-bit ARMv7 and 64-bit ARMv8 architectures. While the new chips are aimed primary at home gateways and Wi-Fi routers, the leading public ...Full article
We recently sat down with Fremont, Calif.-based Penguin Computing to learn about the Linux cluster specialist’s unique approach to the enterprise advanced scale computing, HPC and hyperscale markets, and how this privately owned company has managed to hold its own and then some against much larger competitors such as Dell and HP on the hardware side and ...Full article
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 a relatively small elite crowd, not easily accessible by the large majority. In this article, however, we argue that – despite the ever increasing complexity of ...Full article
None of us is getting any younger, and the same is true of the Internet. Experts who track major outages are warning that the Internet is not aging well, and that the network architecture of a decade ago is not built to handle the growing volumes of data and streaming video. Add to that growing ...Full article
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 is bringing about profound technological change, much of that change focused on easing implementation and providing the enhanced reliability, resilience and quality of service that businesses ...Full article
Now that most enterprises have been convinced they need a cloud strategy that frequently begins with the embrace of public cloud, a services sector has emerged to help companies manage cloud computing infrastructure and costs. That cloud sector is beginning to see some merger and acquisition activity with a deal this week between a cost ...Full article
Rambus Inc., the chip technology intellectual property vendor, is working with Microsoft Research on future memory requirements for quantum computing. Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS), Sunnyvale, Calif., confirmed just before the holidays it is collaborating with the software giant (NASDAQ: MSFT) on memory systems for next-generation quantum computing. The promising but largely untested technology is slowly gaining ...Full article
The consolidation of the storage sector gained momentum at the end of 2015 with NetApp Inc.'s deal to acquire all-flash startup SolidFire for $870 million in cash. The deal announced just before the holidays also accelerates efforts by NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) to push all-flash arrays into datacenters and other enterprise infrastructure. NetApp, Sunnyvale, Calif., noted ...Full article
In April 1956 the SS Ideal X set sail from Newark carrying 58 large metal boxes then known as “Trailer Vans.” The Ideal X was a modified World War II-era T2 tanker, and became the initial member of the world’s most successful container fleet. Soon the intermodal shipping container was standardized and purpose-built vessels—what we ...Full article
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