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Hard Drives Are The Mark Twain Of Technology
After almost two years with data storage giant Western Digital, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla is getting used to the questions. …
Articles by Jeffrey Burt
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Project Arctic Means VMware Doesn’t Get Left Out In the Hybrid Cold
Enterprises have been shifting many of their workloads into the cloud to take advantage of the scalability, efficiencies, and economics those environments offer. …
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Apache Druid Takes Its Place In The Pantheon Of Databases
A decade ago, Fangjin “FJ” Yang was a software architect at startup Metamarkets, a company that was building a user-facing analytics engine that a lot of developers simultaneously could go to, click on a UI, and very quickly get answers to their questions. …
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Controlling The Network When You Don’t Own All Of It
Like others in the datacenter infrastructure space, Cisco Systems has had a front-row seat to the rapid changes in enterprise tech, from the accelerating adoption of the multicloud model to the increasing decentralization of the IT environment, rippling out to the network edge. …
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Putting More Flex Into Flash Storage Arrays
In a cloud-based, highly distributed, and data-centric world, flexibility in what a piece of hardware and its systems software can do, where it can run, and how it can be configured is a critical differentiator for picky enterprises. …
AI
Neural Networks Are Only As Good As The Data They Are Fed
Like other kinds of computing, if you put garbage data into a machine learning training run and then pour new data through it, what comes out as the answer is puréed garbage. …
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Switchless Network Steers COSMA7 Supercomputer Down Congested Pathways
Scientists at the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) in England spend most of their time trying to unravel the secrets held in the deepest parts of space, from the Big Bang and the origins of the universe to mysteries like dark matter. …
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Panasas Adapts To The Ebbs And Flows Of Enterprise HPC
With enterprises increasing embracing HPC environments to help manage the tidal wave of data that’s washing over them and the rise of AI and machine learning workloads, tech vendors selling into the market need to demonstrate both flexibility and adaptability. …
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Automagically Moving Legacy Hadoop To The Cloud
Always on the lookout for the kernel of a new platform, we chronicled the steady rise and sharp fall of Hadoop as the go-to open source analytics platform. …
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Neuromorphic Computing Will Need Partners To Break Into The Datacenter
The emerging field of neuromorphic processing isn’t an easy one to navigate. …