A contrarian view of the conceptual framework known as the Internet to Things asserts that it should really be called the Internet of Sensors. "Companies that embrace the IoS and not the IoT will be the winners in the connected world," claims the U.K.-based technology and development organization called The Technology Partnership. TTP's argument in ...Full article
Traditional spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) have dominated datacenters since their inception, primarily due to lower upfront cost per gigabytes ($/GB) and the lack of other feasible storage options. This has begun to change in the last decade, since the cost of solid state drives (SSDs) started dropping. Considering the demands of modern datacenters, which ...Full article
Anthem is perhaps as well known for its acquisitive nature as its health insurance offerings. Like many in its industry, Anthem grows partially through consolidation, purchasing both national and regional players to increase its marketshare. And each time the company buys another business, its IT department must audit, assess, discard, and integrate thousands of duplicate, ...Full article
With parts of the emerging application container infrastructure moving ahead on separate tracks, a key player is reiterating its support for a set of open standards for packaging, orchestration and distribution of application containers. The goal of the container open standards push, Red Hat said in a blog post, is avoiding fragmentation, which the company ...Full article
As many enterprises grapple with the influx of big data they're collecting about customers' spending habits, credit histories, online preferences, and social media posts, a start-up expects its ability to provide even more information about the physical world will increase business insight and streamline processes, not add to the data chaos. About six months since ...Full article
Along with most everything else in the datacenter, networks, including hybrid wide-area networks, are increasingly being managed by software. That software-defined approach has attracted the attention of investors who this week poured another $25 million into CloudGenix, one of a growing list of software-defined WAN vendors. CloudGenix, Santa Clara, Calif., said Tuesday (May 5) that ...Full article
Dell hopes to address enterprises' current and future storage needs with a flurry of new products, ranging from high-performance data repositories to entry-level arrays. Businesses typically have a mix of traditional architectures and software-defined storage co-existing in the same datacenter, said Alan Atkinson, vice president and general manager of Dell Storage in a press conference ...Full article
Computer scientists worried about the end of computing as we know it have been banging heads for several years looking for ways to return to the historical exponential scaling of computer performance. What is needed, say the proponents of an initiative called "Rebooting Computing," is nothing less than a radical rethinking of how computers are ...Full article
EMC this week expanded the capacity of its XtremIO all-flash storage array in a free upgrade to existing customers, and launched a 40TB X-Brick building block to scale all-flash clusters. During a presentation at EMC World 2015, the developer presented its new flash offerings as a way for enterprises to consolidate more common workloads on ...Full article
Intel wants to address enterprises' mission-critical, analytics, and big data processing needs with the advent of its new Xeon E7-4800 v3 and E7-8800 v3 x86 chips. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer designed the Xeon E7 v3 family to tap into the burgeoning market for speedy in-memory computing, used increasingly to enable digital business strategies and ...Full article
Today, the United States Postal Service is on its third generation of supercomputers, with each generation more capable than its predecessor. IDC believes the USPS embrace of HPC exemplifies an important, accelerating IT trend: Leading organizations in the private and public sectors are increasingly turning to high-performance computing to tackle challenging big data analytics workloads ...Full article
Rather than invent new applications for existing processes, internal Hadoop developers typically try to use pre-existing programs but Apache Hadoop's complexities may prevent these professionals from empowering their enterprises to rapidly reap big data opportunities. This challenge is growing as the number of pre-existing applications and data grow and the availability of well-qualified Hadoop developers ...Full article
Chuck Robbins, a 17-year veteran of Cisco Systems, was named Monday (May 4) to succeed Silicon Valley icon John Chambers as CEO of the global networking giant. Robbins' ascension to the top post at Cisco comes as the networking giants looks for ways to leverage its installed base of routers, switches and other Internet hardware ...Full article
An application container specification that defines how to build and run pre-packaged apps has gained some big-name backing as an ecosystem emerges to "secure the backend of the Internet," roll out distributed systems and bring web-like scaling to the enterprise. CoreOS, which is staging a community event this week to promote distributed systems and the ...Full article
EMC division VCE took the spotlight at EMC World 2015's opening keynote when it introduced a family of hyper-converged rackscale systems designed to simplify the deployment of next-generation scale-out mobile, cloud, and distributed tier 2 applications. Targeting the decentralization trend affecting many enterprise IT departments courtesy of cloud, the consumerization of IT, and mobility, VCE's ...Full article
The release of OpenStack Kilo this week, the foundation's 11th offering, includes a batch of compute, storage, networking and provisioning features intended to extend the platform to fit workloads with bare metal and application containers. In releasing Kilo Thursday (April 30), the OpenStack Foundation noted that production deployments make up half of OpenStack deployments while ...Full article
Facebook reported progress this week toward integrating its open source osquery tool with the open source RocksDB that serves as an embedded database to store and speed up access to data. Facebook opened up osquery late last year. The social media giant describes the open source project as an operating system instrumentation framework for OS ...Full article
With 100 million members, dating site PlentyOfFish wants to make sure technological bottlenecks don't stand in the way of true love. So when SanDisk began field-testing its recently announced Fusion ioMemory PCIe application accelerators, PlentyOfFish took the next-generation cards for a spin, Owen Morley, director of infrastructure at the free online site told Enterprise Technology. ...Full article
Visual Studio took center stage at Build 2015, Microsoft's annual conference for software and web developers. For the first time, Microsoft has extended Visual Studio beyond Windows, with the introduction of Visual Studio Code that offers some capabilities on Windows, Linux, and Apple OS X. Unveiled at Build 2015, Visual Studio Code is "a lightweight ...Full article
Cloud computing is increasingly being used for intelligence-gathering and "threat analysis" as government vendors like Amazon Web Services join forces with analytics outfits that are meshing cognitive computing and other forms of data analysis with cloud computing horsepower. Among the initial platforms for much of this intelligence activity is the AWS "GovCloud," which went live ...Full article
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