The most interesting thing about Hewlett Packard Enterprise has nothing to do with its many products in compute, storage, and networking, or even its recent $1.3 billion deal to acquire supercomputer maker Cray. …
The thrust of much of the message that Red Hat was putting out last week at the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference in Boston revolved around multicloud and hybrid cloud environments – adopting them, deploying them, and managing them. …
The company best known for its Windows operating systems and related client and server software but also one of the big five cloud players on Earth is getting into the edge computing business with a set of Azure offerings designed to put compute resources a lot closer to the customer’s data. …
As one of the dominant hyperscalers in the world, Microsoft is out there on the cutting edge, driving efficiencies on every front it can in server, storage, switching, software, and datacenter design. …
Going forward, there is little question that containers have become firmly established as the technology of choice for application deployment – at least until such a time as alternative approaches like serverless computing outgrow them in popularity. …
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. …
For any public cloud to succeed, it has to offer best of breed technologies reasonably close to the cutting edge and supporting the wide variety of compute that the enterprises of the world would otherwise acquire and run on premises. …
The increasingly distributed nature of computing and the rapid growth in the number of the small connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) are combining with trends like the rise of silicon-level vulnerabilities highlighted by Spectre, Meltdown, and more recent variants to create an expanding and fluid security landscape that’s difficult for enterprises to navigate. …
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater operational agility, especially in developing customer-facing applications and getting the code into production with greater speed. …
For those who might expect Microsoft to favor its own Windows-centric platforms and tools to power comprehensive infrastructure for serving AI compute and software services for internal R&D groups, plan on being surprised. …
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