Not all cloud providers are the same, and even among the three cloud giants – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – there is some measure of differentiation. …
For the past decade or so, unless enterprises wanted to build more of their own datacenters, the cloud providers were the only game in town to tackle new workloads at massive scale. …
For most enterprises, the future of IT is infrastructure and systems software that spans multiple clouds, a combination of both disparate public clouds and their own private clouds. …
To Gerrit Kazmaier, the distinction between managed databases and data lakes has never made much sense, and it makes even less sense today as data is piling up like soaring mountains being pushed up by tectonic forces. …
For those looking to try out Fujitsu’s Arm-based PRIMEHPC FX1000 system, the company is opening up the same capabilities via its own cloud service. …
At some point, if Microsoft has its way, a substantial amount of computing that enterprise end users do on PCs could end up running in the cloud, and that could have a dramatic effect on the depth and breadth of the Azure cloud. …
Hewlett Packard Enterprise was a bit ahead of the curve when it announced in 2019 that by this year it would be offering its entire product portfolio as a service and that its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform would be the foundation of the effort. …
Google and VMware have announced a new element to their partnership that the two companies said will simplify cloud migrations, provide more flexibility, and help companies modernize their enterprise applications with a minimum amount of pain. …
Creating a platform is a massive technical challenge. We have seen many technically elegant ones in recent years – Cloud Foundry, Engine Yard, the original OpenShift, Photon Platform, Mesos, OpenStack come immediately to mind – that didn’t quite make it, and importantly did not rise to the economic challenge of making enough money to sustain the continued development and support of that platform to have to reach tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands, to millions of customers. …
Some of the most important luminaries in the HPC sector have spoken from on high, and their conclusions about the future of the HPC market are probably going to shock a lot of people. …
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