Dell Technologies, since its founding 37 years ago, has been about infrastructure, from the servers, networking systems and storage appliances that populate enterprise datacenters to the corporate clients that are designed to make employees more productive. …
Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL relational database. …
We are strong believers in disaggregation and composability here at The Next Platform, and we think that eventually the tyranny of the physical confines and configurations of motherboard will be over. …
Since launching GreenLake in 2018 and promising that all of its portfolio would be available as services by next year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been on a sprint to build up the capabilities of the platform. …
The cloud era started off with the belief that, eventually, enterprises would migrate all of their workloads to the public cloud — drawn by the promises of greater flexibility and agility, cost reductions, manageable OPEX payment models, and the ability to shift responsibility for management of IT environments to the cloud providers themselves. …
There is nothing at all wrong with legacy application and system software as long as it can deliver scalability, reliability, and performance. …
“Ingest it all, keep everything, find that needle in the haystack,” they exclaimed. …
Ever since Nutanix, the first virtualized server-storage smashup, dropped out of stealth in 2011, we have been watching with great interest to see if this hyperconverged infrastructure would take the world by storm. …
Five years ago, Western Digital, known for its hard disk drive (HDD) storage technologies, doled out $19 billion in cash and stock for SanDisk and its solid state drive (SDD) product portfolio, giving it deep expertise in the non-volatile flash memory space at a time when enterprises were looking for expanded storage options in the wake of the rise of the cloud and the edge. …
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia, which handles a large portion of Square Kilometer Array (SKA) workloads in addition to other scientific computing initiatives, is preparing to take on more capability than they’ve ever seen. …
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