HPC shops are used to doing math – it is what they do for a living, after all – and as they evaluate their hybrid computing and storage strategies, they will be doing a lot of math. …
The center of gravity for data is continuing to shift from core datacenters to other parts well beyond the walls of those facilities. …
We predict new enterprise application development will pass a tipping point in 2019 and shift away from legacy virtual machines (VMs) and strongly toward containers and Kubernetes container orchestration. …
HPC and the cloud have an uneasy, lukewarm relationship. Some corporations running HPC environments take the view that they have the infrastructure and software capabilities they need to run their own often massive workloads and taking on the networking costs, security concerns and management hassles of running applications and keep data in the cloud doesn’t make sense to them. …
Hybrid clouds may be the direction many enterprises are heading in, but it is a path fraught with challenges. …
Hadoop started out as a batch-oriented system for chewing through massive amounts of unstructured data on the cheap, enabling all sorts of things such as search engines and advertising systems. …
The Haswell Xeon E5 processor ramp is continuing a-pace, and Amazon Web Services is putting out a new variant of its EC2 compute instances that employ custom versions of these Intel processors. …
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