Jeffrey Burt
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Unifying Massive Data at Cloud Scale
June 9, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
Enterprises continue to struggle with the issue of data: how to process and move the massive amounts that are coming in from multiple sources, how to analyze the different types of data to best leverage its capabilities, and how to store and unify it across various environments, including on-premises infrastructure and cloud environments. A broad array of major storage players, such as Dell EMC, NetApp and IBM are building out their offerings to create platforms that can do a lot of those things.
MapR Technologies, which made its bones with its commercial Hadoop distribution, is moving in a similar direction. …
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HPE Looks Ahead To Composable Infrastructure, Persistent Memory
June 6, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
Over the past several years, the server market has been roiled by the rise of cloud computing that run the applications created by companies and by services offered by hyperscalers that augment or replace such applications. This is a tougher and lumpier market, to be sure.
The top tier cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google not only have become key drivers in server sales but also have turned to original design manufacturers (ODMs) from Taiwan and China for lower cost systems to help populate their massive datacenters. Overall, global server shipments have slowed, and top-tier OEMs are working to …
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Unifying Oil and Gas Data at Scale
May 30, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
The oil and gas industry has been among the most aggressive in pursuing internet of things (IoT), cloud and big data technologies to collect, store, sort and analyze massive amounts of data in both the drilling and refining sectors to improve efficiencies and decision-making capabilities. Systems are increasingly becoming automated, and sensors are placed throughout processes to send back data on various the systems and software has been put in place to crunch the data to create useful information.
According to a group of researchers from Turkey, the oil and gas industry is well suited to embrace all the new …
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Logistics in Application Path of Neural Networks
May 25, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
Accurately forecasting resource demand within the supply chain has never been easy, particular given the constantly changing nature of the data over periods of time.
What may have been true in measurements around demand or logistics one minute might be entirely different an hour, day or week later, which can throw off a short-term load forecast (STLF) and lead to costly over- or under-estimations, which in turn can lead to too much or too little supply.
To improve such forecasts, there are multiple efforts underway to create new models that can more accurately predict load needs, and while they have …
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A Health Check For Code And Infrastructure In The Cloud
May 24, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
As businesses continue their migration to the cloud, the issue of monitoring the performance and health of their applications gets more challenging as they try to track them across both on-premises environments and in both private and public clouds. At the same time, as they become more cloud-based, they have to keep an eye on the entire stack, from the customer-facing applications to the underlying infrastructure they run on.
Since its founding eight years ago, New Relic has steadily built upon its first product, a cloud-based application performance management (APM) tool that is designed to assess how well the …
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Dell EMC Upgrades Flash in High-End Storage While Eyeing NVMe
May 9, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
When Dell acquired EMC in its massive $60 billon-plus deal last year, it boasted that Dell was inheriting a boatload of new technologies that would help propel forward its capabilities and ambitions with larger enterprises.
That included offerings ranging from VMware’s NSX software-defined networking (SDN) platform to VirtuStream and its cloud technologies for running mission critical applications from the likes of Oracle, SAP and Microsoft off-premises. In particular, Dell was acquiring EMC’s broad and highly popular storage portfolio, in particular the high-end VMAX, XtremeIO, and newer ScaleIO lineups as well as its Isilon storage arrays for high performance workloads.
Dell …
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Red Hat Is The Gatekeeper For ARM In The Datacenter
May 5, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
If any new hardware technology is going to get traction in the datacenter, it has to have the software behind it. And as the dominant supplier of commercial Linux, Red Hat’s support of ARM-based servers gives the upstart chip makers like Applied Micro, Cavium, and Qualcomm the leverage to help pry the glasshouse doors open and get a slice of the server and storage business that is so utterly dominated by Intel’s Xeon processors today.
It is now or never for ARM in the datacenter, and that means Red Hat has to go all the way and not just support …
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Red Hat Gears Up OpenShift For Developers
May 2, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
During the five years that Red Hat has been building out its OpenShift cloud applications platform, much of the focus has been on making it easier to use by customers looking to adapt to an increasingly cloud-centric world for both new and legacy applications. Just as it did with the Linux operating system through Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related middleware and tools, the vendor has worked to make it easier for enterprises to embrace OpenShift.
That has included a major reworking of the platform with the release of version 3.0 last year, which ditched Red Hat’s in-house technologies for …
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Swiss Army Knife File System Cuts Through Petabytes
May 1, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
Petabytes are in the future of every company, and luckily, the future is always being invented by the IT ecosystem to handle it.
Those wrestling with tens to hundreds of petabytes of data today are constantly challenged to find the best ways to store, search and manage it all. Qumulo was founded in 2012 and came out of the chute two years ago with the idea that a software-based file system that includes built-in analytics that enables the system to increase capacity as the amount of data grows. QSFS, now called Qumulo Core, also does it all: fast with big …
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Machine Learning Storms Into Climate Research
April 18, 2017 Jeffrey Burt
The fields where machine learning and neural networks can have positive impacts seem almost limitless. From healthcare and genomics to pharmaceutical development, oil and gas exploration, retail, smart cities and autonomous vehicles, the ability to rapidly and automatically find patterns in massive amounts of data promises to help solve increasingly complex problems and speed up discoveries that will improve lives, create a heathier world and make businesses more efficient.
Climate science is one of those fields that will see significant benefits from machine learning, and scientists in the field are pushing hard to see how the technology can help them …
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