With all-flash arrays making inroads into enterprise storage infrastructure, the growing list of vendors of PCIe flash arrays are looking for ways to differentiate themselves while persuading potential customers that they can reap a quick return on a still pricey investment. The latest gambit comes from flash array startup NextGen Storage Inc. that is promoting ...Full article
Cloud vendors are responding to last month's data privacy ruling by a European court with security upgrades to cloud storage and orchestration services aimed at helping customers meet stricter EU data protection requirements. Among the first out of the gate in response to the Oct. 6 ruling by the European Court of Justice invalidating a ...Full article
Verizon's annual report on enterprise cloud adoption argues that a shift is underway from embracing the cloud for mission-critical workloads to a more aggressive use of cloud platforms to develop new customer-facing use cases and other revenue generators. The transition is accelerating as workloads are steadily moved to hybrid cloud infrastructure. For enterprises, the transformation ...Full article
Red Hat launched a lightweight Linux container host initiative last year called "Project Atomic" just as the application container movement was gaining market momentum. The company said this week it is finally offering a "preview" of its Atomic Enterprise Platform container infrastructure in connection with the latest release of its OpenShift Enterprise platform. Red Hat ...Full article
Cloud security technology providers Palerra and Okta have joined forces on what they call a scalable “360-degree” cloud data protection offering that guards data from without and within. The partnership starts with Okta’s user credentials capabilities that act as a gatekeeper, protecting access to data in the cloud from outside attacks. Then, after users pass ...Full article
As they seek to develop and implement big data strategies, companies are increasingly nervous about the inability of their existing IT infrastructure to handle huge increases in data from emerging sources like the Internet of Things and sensor data. A vendor-sponsored study of U.K. and U.S. business executives by Researchscape International found that 43 percent ...Full article
New fabric interconnect technology could be “a game changer,” according to market watcher International Data Corp. (IDC), with the potential to break the price/performance mold established by interconnects based on Infiniband and Ethernet. IDC Research Vice President Steve Conway fleshed out the emerging interconnect approach during a recent webinar, focusing on Intel’s Omni-Path architecture (OPA) ...Full article
A new open source initiative backed by application and service vendors as well as enterprise users aims to extend an emerging development framework to become an open API industry standard. The Linux Foundation unveiled its Open API Initiative on Thursday (Nov. 5) focusing on the emerging Swagger specification and format used to provide metadata for ...Full article
Public cloud adoption continues to surge, but not all adopters are seeing an immediate return on the investment, an industry survey concludes. In a survey of more than 1,600 IT professionals designed to discern public cloud adoption trends, cloud monitoring software vendor ScienceLogic found that 83 percent of organizations polled in late September said they ...Full article
Perhaps self-evident but among the benefits flowing from National Strategic Computing Initiative discussions are clarification of specific obstacles in the path to exascale and the forcing of specific choices to take to advance extreme scale computing. Doug Burger, director of hardware and devices at Microsoft Research (NASDAQ: MSFT), contributed an insightful blog with his takeaways ...Full article
The folks at Docker Inc. continue to push out new releases of their application container platform with the overriding goal of making key components "production-ready." The latest version, Docker 1.9, released this week focuses on multi-host networking that enables the creation of virtual networks in Docker Engine along with a "hardened" Docker Swarm clustering tool ...Full article
IBM expanded its cloud and enterprise services offerings this week with the latest in a series of acquisitions designed to propel its hybrid cloud strategy. IBM (NYSE: IBM) said Tuesday (Nov. 3) it has acquired privately held Gravitant Inc., a developer of hybrid cloud "brokerage" software that allows customers to buy software and computing services ...Full article
The networking branch of the Open Compute Project announced a pair of new standard switches this week along with plans in the upcoming year to focus on faster networking hardware and moving software development beyond lower layers while expanding testing. The networking group announced on Monday (Nov. 2) two new OCP switches from member Mellanox ...Full article
Hewlett-Packard, HP, the iconic company often credited with laying the foundation for Silicon Valley and, with it, an unprecedented burst of technological creativity, attempts to reinvent itself beginning today as HPE, or Hewlett Packard Enterprise. As with many technology giants currently struggling to evolve, HP moved last year to transform itself by announcing it would ...Full article
Cloud vendors continue to add a range of open-source development tools to their platforms. The latest example comes from IBM, which has steadily been building up the toolbox on its Bluemix development platform. The company said Friday (Oct. 30) it is adding two new services based on Apache Kafka, the real-time distributed messaging system, to ...Full article
Rackspace used this week's OpenStack Summit in Tokyo to jump on the application container bandwagon with a native container environment. Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) said its Carina container environment combines bare-metal performance with native container tooling and orchestration to help create and deploy clusters in the cloud for application containers. Carina also uses Docker Engine native ...Full article
Accelerating genomics analysis remains one of the toughest challenges in life science research. All manner of optimizations are in use – disk streaming, optimized parallel files systems, algorithm tweaks, faster processors, and hardware accelerators, to name a few – all with varying results. TGAC, the U.K. genomics analysis center, this week reported implementation of the first ...Full article
As OpenStack cloud deployments slowly grow, so too do nagging concerns about complexity and the persistent difficulty of installing the open source platform, including much configuring and customizing. As they say, the first step toward solving a problem is admitting you have one. As the growing OpenStack user community meets this week in Tokyo, a ...Full article
As technology reshapes industry, female engineers and computer scientists are reshaping their companies and the world. From leading advanced scale computing initiatives to heading digital startups and everything in between, women technologists are increasingly welcome and comfortable across the breadth of organizations describing themselves as technology-centric. A background in STEM doesn't limit women to success ...Full article
Whether they're looking to better serve multi-national conglomerates or reach new customers abroad, makers of advanced scale systems are expanding their efforts to reach customers across the world. Recognizing the importance of these technologies, local governments and regional partnerships are investing heavily in high performance computing – a move that experts see trickling down to area ...Full article
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