Store
Enterprise Storage Has To Evolve In A Changing Data Landscape
Enterprises continue to be inundated with data that needs to be collected, stored, moved, processed and analyzed, and the view down the road shows no let up. …
Articles by Jeffrey Burt
Store
Forging Industrial Grade, Scale Out Ceph Storage
As tens of millions of Americans who have received their $1,400 Covid relief checks in recent weeks can attest, getting a little financial boost during stressful and difficult times can go a long way in helping to separate themselves from day-to-day survival and turn some of their attention to longer term plans. …
Compute
For CPU Makers and OEMs Alike, It’s A Platform View
Dell took a look at the two weeks between the rollouts by AMD and Intel of their latest server processors and, after some debate, decided to unveil its entire portfolio of new and enhanced systems – featuring the new chips from both vendors – at the launch of AMD’s latest Epyc silicon rather than announce servers in line with the chip makers’ timing. …
Compute
Gelsinger Leads Emboldened Intel With Ice Lake Launch
The past several years haven’t been easy on Intel. The world’s top processor maker stumbled on its transition from 14 nanometer to 10 nanometer manufacturing and still finds itself behind rivals like AMD and Arm, which have made the move to 7 nanometer processes and which have line of sight on 5 nanometer. …
Cloud
VMware Unifies Its Cloud Front
Over the past several years, VMware has developed a sprawling portfolio of cloud capabilities that stretch from on-premises datacenters and private clouds out to the public cloud and increasingly into the edge environment. …
Connect
Why Not Networking As A Service? But How?
In 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first top-tier tech vendor to make the plunge, announcing that it planned to make its entire portfolio – all of its hardware as well as software – available as a service by 2022, leveraging its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform to answer the call to make the on-premises datacenter experience as cloud-like as possible. …
Compute
Designing Servers In Rapidly Changing Times
When chip makers launch the latest additions of their datacenter processors, server OEMs have historically immediately or soon after followed with a rollout of the latest new or enhanced systems based on those offerings. …
Compute
AMD’s Top Brass Take Another Swing At Intel With Milan Epycs
It has been a long time – more than 15 years – since AMD has been in a position to pressure larger rival Intel in supplying processors to server OEMs and ODMs for the datacenter. …
Control
Keeping Infrastructure And Applications Humming Along Like Google
Managing infrastructure at Google is a lot more than just putting stuff into containers and letting Borg push it around. …
Control
Taking On DARPA’s FHE Security Challenge
Cybersecurity has never been easy. As the amount of business being done on the internet has grown, enterprises, smaller businesses, HPC institutions and other organizations have had to develop and embrace technologies designed to protect mission-critical data and applications from an increasingly sophisticated underworld of hackers, nation-states and other cyber-criminals. …