Google hiring of longtime Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to take over for Diane Greene as the head its cloud unit was a signal that the hyperscale company was serious about generating more enterprise businesses in hopes of better competing with larger public cloud providers Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. …
The promise of edge computing is to better deal with the massive amounts of data that are being created by the rapidly growing numbers of mobile devices, remote systems, and sensors that are connecting into the network and that are critical to the business. …
The edge is getting a lot of attention these days, given the fast-growing amount of data that is being generated by the proliferation of devices and systems located outside of the traditional core datacenter. …
NVM-Express has been on a steady roll for the past several years, a hot technology in a storage industry that is looking for ways to best address the insatiable demand for higher performance and throughput and lower latency driven by the need to process data faster and more securely. …
As enterprises continue to embrace hybrid and multicloud models, they are looking for fast access to the data that can be stored both on-premises or in public clouds, and often in more than one cloud. …
Hyperconverged infrastructure has grown up quite a bit from its early days, when it was seen primarily as a way of supplying an affordable and easy-to-deploy solution for supporting virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. …
The center of gravity for data is continuing to shift from core datacenters to other parts well beyond the walls of those facilities. …
Enterprises that are betting the massive amounts of data that they are collecting will deliver the insights they need to make better and faster businesses are finding that they could just as easily be overwhelmed by them. …
Cloud providers can be like sharks in that they have to keep moving forward – in their case, growing the number of services they can offer enterprises – or be overtaken by competitors. …
The history of digital computing is to provide increasing levels of abstraction to get programmers further and further away from directly manipulating the ones and zeros. …
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