As vice president and general manager of high performance computing and big data for Hewlett Packard Enterprise for almost a year, Bill Mannel oversees two fast-growing and complementary areas within both HP and industry at large. In July, HP and Intel announced they were partnering to help propel HPC into mainstream enterprise usage. By leveraging ...Full article
Querying real-time data on a massive scale remains a huge infrastructure hurdle that is increasingly being addressed by in-memory data grids. Hazelcast Inc., an in-memory computing vendor and partner C24 Technologies have rolled out an in-memory approach that promises to reduce enterprise data storage by as much as half. The partners said Wednesday (Sept. 9) ...Full article
A proposed open-source framework for the Internet of Things released this week is being positioned as the first cloud-native architecture to be documented as an industry specification. The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) formed last July said Thursday (Sept. 10) its proposed 1.0 IoT specification would offer maximum flexibility to developers, emphasizing that "cloud-native design is ...Full article
With the pressure to gain and maintain competitive advantage, companies in various industries improve a growing array of business processes with RPA.Full article
A consistent, growing challenge enterprises face in the big data age revolves around decreasing the total cost of ownership for storage while simultaneously providing ready access to petabytes of data for the expanding number of employees involved in analytics. Caringo intends FileFly for Swarm, released today, to address both these concerns. While FileFly installs on ...Full article
Chef Software said it has closed a $40 million funding round as traditional hyperscale datacenter infrastructure development continues to shift to the enterprise. The Seattle-based DevOps automation specialist said Wednesday (Sept. 9) that the latest funding round led by DFJ Growth also included Hewlett Packard Ventures. Also joining in the Series E funding round were ...Full article
Containers have made quite the splash of late, with the rising popularity of Docker, the formation of the Open Container Initiative, and the launch of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. However, with alternative options like virtual machines dominating the cloud industry, the landscape of what technology should be used when and in partnership with what ...Full article
With its release of the Predictive Cloud, InsideSales.com hopes to expand beyond its traditional sales market into numerous horizontal and vertical areas that increasingly demand big data, predictive analytics, and machine learning to fuel growth and revenue. The platform leverages InsideSales.com's Neuralytics self-learning predictive engine to analyze intelligence from more than 100 billion data points, ...Full article
With today's release of JFrog Artifactory 4.0, JFrog is targeting DevOps' need to manage all software applications, regardless of the language or technology in which they were created. The developer's universal artifact repository manager provides clustered and cloud high availability, support for multi-site teams, and supports both development and operations teams, said Adam Frankl, vice president of ...Full article
Automation and planning empower enterprises to reap cost savings, innovation from investment in solutions from Docker and CoreOS in advanced scale computing environments.Full article
IBM and processor intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. have joined forces on an Internet of Things platform that will integrate ARM devices with analytics services. The partners said this week the collaboration through IBM's IoT Foundation would use ARM devices based on its "mbed" chips to collect and analyze data from intelligent devices like industrial ...Full article
Like America's love of tennis, the cloud economy is growing exponentially. As organizations aggressively push cloud adoption, more sensitive and regulated data ends up in the hands of outside service providers and solutions like SaaS application systems. As a result, recent survey findings show most IT security professionals believe they don’t have full visibility into ...Full article
VMware's expansion beyond the virtualized server to the "software-defined datacenter" reached a crescendo at a company event in San Francisco this week, highlighted by a slew of announcements around the goal of extending server virtualization across the datacenter and the services they deliver. The foundation of its software-defined datacenter at scale strategy is a unified ...Full article
Security breaches are on the rise, and it’s become not a question of if, but when, an organization will be hacked. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, citing a study by Kaiser Permanente in California and Stanford University, breaches in data security exposed more than 29 million health records to potential ...Full article
IBM and SAP have joined forces to add the HANA database to IBM's Power platform upgraded specifically to run in-memory analytics. The partners said SAP HANA would run across the entire Power8 processor line. IBM's E880 server based on the Power8 processor brings with it 200-Gb/sec memory bandwidth, "intelligent" data caching and 16 TB of ...Full article
Seagate targeted hyperscale and cloud datacenters -- as well as mobile devices – with its flurry of new product announcements at VMworld today. Continuing adoption of cloud for primary storage, as well as backup and recovery, will expand this market to $65.41 billion by 2020, increasing at a compound annual growth rate of 28.2 percent ...Full article
The outlines of an open source hardware platform continue to come into focus with the introduction of what is claimed by university researchers to be the first general purpose graphics processor design. In a white paper released during a semiconductor design conference last week in Silicon Valley, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison outlined the ...Full article
VMware unveiled its "unified hybrid cloud platform" this week, stressing "tighter integration" of new public cloud services with a software-defined datacenter approach designed to speed the building and delivery of business applications at scale. "Applications are a key differentiator in every business sector," Mark Chuang, VMware's senior director of product marketing and management, stressed in ...Full article
Days after unveiling its DataSphere data virtualization platform, Primary Data announced the technology act as a Universal VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness storage provider for the Virtual Volumes feature in VMare vSphere 6. This capability is part of Primary Data's focus on eliminating silos by allowing organizations to access data, regardless of vendor ...Full article
High performance computers do not necessarily require their own specially designed datacenters, yet even when design, cooling, or other concessions are necessary, benefits far outweigh any upheaval. "There is a lot of misinformation out there that prevents folks from acting. It costs too much. It takes up lots of space. It needs its own climate-controlled room. It ...Full article
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