Enterprise
Red Hat Takes On VMware, Nutanix For Hyperconverged Storage
Hyperconverged infrastructure has been with us for a while now, and it looks like the technology is still a growing market, if analyst figures can be believed. …
Articles by Daniel Robinson
Connect
Broadening The Appeal Of Distributed NVM-Express Storage
NVM-Express has been creating a quiet revolution in servers for several years now, providing a way for flash storage to bypass the traditional storage stack and the limitations of interfaces such as SATA and SAS, and instead pipe data directly into and out of the CPU through the high-speed PCI Express bus. …
HPC
Architecting Storage And Compute At Exascale
When IBM’s Summit supercomputer was officially unveiled in June, some hailed it as the first exascale system because of its peak performance in applications that made heavy use of GPU acceleration at low precision. …
Cloud
VMware Always Sees A Cloudy Future
Over the past two decades, VMware has built an enviable enterprise customer base of half a million unique customers for its technology to virtualize X86 servers. …
Compute
Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices
In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. …
Enterprise
Follow The Yellowbrick Road To An All-Flash Data Warehouse
General purpose computing systems have been seen as the best way of delivering on enterprise data processing needs for decades. …
Compute
Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater operational agility, especially in developing customer-facing applications and getting the code into production with greater speed. …
HPC
DDN Breathes New Life Into Lustre File System
Lustre has been an essential component of HPC systems for a decade and a half, and has experienced a somewhat turbulent history of shifting ownership followed by uncertain support from various backers as an open source project. …
Compute
Crating All Of The Data That The Edge Creates
Edge computing can mean different things to different people, as is the case with any new phenomena in the IT sector. …
Cloud
Canonical Cuts Its Own Path To Put Linux In The Cloud
Linux has gradually grown in importance along with the Internet and now the hyperscalers that define the next generation of experience on that global network. …