In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. …
If there is anything the hyperscalers have taught us, it is the value of homogeneity and scale in an enterprise. …
As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply believes that all applications should, in the fullness of time, move to the public cloud. …
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
“Death and taxes” is a phrase that is usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin from a quote in a 1789 letter: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Public cloud computing providers didn’t exist back in the days of Franklin, but if they did, they would have no doubt made the list. …
Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. …
Sometimes you can beat them, and sometimes you can join them. …
Google laid down its path forward in the machine learning and cloud computing arenas when it first unveiled plans for its tensor processing unit (TPU), an accelerator designed by the hyperscaler to speeding up machine learning workloads that are programmed using its TensorFlow framework. …
Here at The Next Platform, we’ve touched on the convergence of machine learning, HPC, and enterprise requirements looking at ways that vendors are trying to reduce the barriers to enable enterprises to leverage AI and machine learning to better address the rapid changes brought about by such emerging trends as the cloud, edge computing and mobility. …
It has been a long time coming, but hyperconverged storage pioneer Nutanix is finally letting go of hardware, shifting from being an a server-storage hybrid appliance maker to a company that sells software that provides hyperconverged functionality on whatever hardware large enterprises typically buy. …
All Content Copyright 2017 The Next Platform
