Cloud
Rethinking The Edge In A Multicloud World
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. …
Dell
Enterprise
Embracing The Inevitable Move From Hardware To Services
When Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and other hyperscale public cloud providers started becoming a force in IT almost a decade ago, questions arose about what the future looked like for traditional datacenter hardware providers like Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Compute
Decentralized Compute Is The Foundation Of The Metaverse
The metaverse is still a thing, an experience, a service in the making, an envisioned 3D world fueled in large part by artificial intelligence and immersive graphics that will, many hope, be a place where consumers can play games and interact with others and companies can do business in ways that can’t be done today. …
Edge
Dell Ties Storage To Kubernetes, Sharpens Edge Strategy
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. …
HPC
NSF Puts $10 Million Into Composable Supercomputer
If they are doing their jobs right, the high performance computing centers around the world in academic and government institutions are supposed to be on the cutting edge of any new technology that boosts the performance of simulation, modeling, analytics, and artificial intelligence. …
HPC
Dell’s Omnia HPC Software Play
Almost three years ago, we wrote about Dell Technologies’ efforts to reassert itself into the HPC and supercomputing arena in a big way. …
Cloud
Dell: Living On The Edge With Its Head In The Clouds
Deepak Patil knows all about the cloud. For the last third of his more than 15 years with Microsoft, Patil was one of the key figures behind the launch of Azure, the enterprise software giant’s public cloud. …
Compute
Server Budgets On The Mend As Pandemic Tries To End
Businesses are judged quarter on quarter and year on year, but you have to look at the long haul and the flow of all business over time to really judge properly. …
Store
Separating Compute And Storage In Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Back in its earliest days, hyperconverged infrastructure was seen primarily as a consolidation play, a way to bring together compute, storage, networking and management together into a single package and offset some of the rising costs and complexities in enterprise datacenters. …
Compute
A Tale Of Two Enterprise IT Beasties
The so-called “Magnificent 7” or “Super 8” hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world may comprise a substantial slice of worldwide sales of servers, storage, and networking, and the cloud capacity and hyperscale services they provide may in turn represent a significant – but nowhere near dominant – chunk of overall IT spending. …