It’s the holiday season and out of the milling hordes of shoppers at a brick-and-mortar store, an individual consumer approaches the jewelry department. His cell phone is on, releasing data that’s picked up by the retailer’s consumer data analytics system. An in-store camera also spots the shopper and, utilizing advanced image and video processing techniques, ...Full article
Red Hat continues to build up its arsenal of OpenShift application platform capabilities as it adds integration and other middleware capabilities designed to get Docker containers up and running in production. The open-source leader (NYSE: RHT) said Wednesday (Dec. 16) it is rolling out three new services on its OpenShift platform based on its JBoss ...Full article
IBM said it would seek to combine its Watson cognitive computing technology with the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) as another way to boost its cloud platform. The company also announced it would establish a new Watson IoT hub in Germany that will among other things oversee a new effort to deliver Watson APIs on ...Full article
Greater use of open-source software also is increasing security risks. According to the developer of a new DevOps firewall technology, one in 16 third-party components downloaded from public repositories brings with it a known vulnerability. Since open-source software development shows no signs of slowing, something has to give. Enter Sonatype, a Maryland-based startup with a ...Full article
Microsoft's application container ecosystem continues to expand with the announcement this week by a virtualization, container and data management vendor that it would make its container technology available on the Microsoft Azure cloud. San Jose-based Sphere3D Corp. (NASDAQ: ANY) said Thursday (Dec. 10) its Glassware 2.0 application container technology could be used to migrate Windows ...Full article
Facebook continues to pour internet-scale money into Deep Learning and AI, announcing its new “Big Sur” computing platform designed to double the speed for training neural networks of twice the size. NVIDIA’s new Tesla M40 GPU, introduced last month, is the chip of choice to power the Big Sur system, which was designed by Facebook ...Full article
The Open Container Initiative (OCI) launched earlier this year to develop industry standards for Linux-based containers said this week it has established a governing structure to oversee technical details and referee disputes as application containers make their way into production. San Francisco-based Docker Inc. is spearheading the Linux Foundation standards initiative. Patrick Chanezon, Docker's chief ...Full article
Discovering cures for cancer, for Alzheimer's, for multiple sclerosis, for Parkinson’s, for the halting and reversing of aging itself, may not require the development of new drugs. It may mean discovering properties and therapies in drugs already developed and used for other diseases. That's the principle driving bioinformatics start-up Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company utilizing ...Full article
Akin to their cloud deployments, enterprises are hedging their bets on storage by adopting a mix of storage options for virtualized infrastructure in datacenters. Hence, a new vendor survey concludes, flash-based hybrid storage is making inroads in the datacenters. A study on the state of storage in virtualized datacenters found that 61 percent of respondents—nearly ...Full article
Unstructured data in the form of video continues to make inroads in large enterprises as it becomes as a service as well as source of business intelligence. With that in mind, IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Tuesday (Dec. 8) it has acquired cloud-based video provider Clearleap Inc. in an effort to provide video access from more ...Full article
Amid lingering concerns about cloud security, a new survey of IT professional confirms that a hybrid cloud strategy is increasingly the preferred way to exploit the advantages of cloud technology while managing security risks. Netwrix Corp., a change and configuration auditing software specialist based in Irvine, Calif., found that fully 69 percent of respondents to ...Full article
If it’s true that only 10 percent of U.S. manufacturers have adopted advanced scale computing, it’s also true that 100 percent of the C-suite members of those companies are aware that HPC technology can deliver significance product design competitive advantage. They also have the gnawing awareness that some competitors are leveraging this technology – technology ...Full article
A new flavor of DevOps is emerging around the concept of intelligent operations as a way to troubleshoot infrastructure issues arising in web-scale application operations. OpsClarity, Sunnyvale, Calif., said this week its "intelligent operations platform" applies analytics to digest operational data in real time. DevOps teams could then used the resulting insights to monitor and ...Full article
Investment banker Goldman Sachs has been spreading the cash around lately through a series of investments in enterprise technologies ranging from big data to application infrastructure. It's latest foray combines a new datacenter approach with an operational analytics twist. Startup Vapor IO, Austin, Texas, which emerged from stealth mode in March, said Thursday (Dec. 3) ...Full article
A stumbling block to broader adoption of micro-services in general and application containers in particular has been ensuring the overall security of infrastructure while running business-critical applications housed in containers. Hence, there has been an early emphasis on isolating container-based applications as a way to bolster security while scaling the number of containers that can ...Full article
One of the most significant takeaways from SC15 last month was issued by industry watcher IDC: HPC in the cloud is exploding. More than 25 percent of the hundreds of organizations surveyed by IDC use the cloud, a jump of nearly 100 percent in four years. For sites that use clouds, the share of HPC ...Full article
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft are extending their cloud partnership with a hyper-converged platform aimed at capturing a larger share of the market for hybrid cloud computing. Separately, HPE (NYSE: HPE) unveiled a managed cloud brokerage service based on its Helion cloud platform designed to rein in cloud "sprawl." The partners said Tuesday (Dec. ...Full article
In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the “avant-garde” of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts of scalability and elasticity on industry-standard hardware, while retaining the precepts of relational tables and SQL. Over the past 10 years, the traditional relational database management ...Full article
Cisco Systems is taking an infrastructure approach to container-based application deployment via an open source project designed to define operational specifications for networking, storage and computing. Project Contiv unveiled by the networking giant earlier this month is designed to help automate policies for the micro-services used to deliver applications delivered via containers. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) ...Full article
Unless you live under a rock, if you work in IT, you’ve heard of software defined networking (SDN). The question, however, is are you ready for it? If your answer is anything less than yes, it’s time you start preparing. While SDN may still be in its infancy in the grand scheme of things—most companies ...Full article
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