Advanced Scale Computing in the Public Cloud: It’s Exploding, for the Right Workloads
One of the most significant takeaways from SC15 last month was issued by industry watcher IDC: HPC in the cloud is exploding. More than 25 percent of the hundreds ...Full Article
HPE, Microsoft Join Forces on Hybrid Cloud
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft are extending their cloud partnership with a hyper-converged platform aimed at capturing a larger share of the market for hybrid cloud computing. Separately, ...Full Article
Scale, Flexibility Place New Demands on Databases
In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the “avant-garde” of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts ...Full Article
Cisco Expands Container Infrastructure Effort
Cisco Systems is taking an infrastructure approach to container-based application deployment via an open source project designed to define operational specifications for networking, storage and computing. Project Contiv unveiled ...Full Article
Network Management Automation: The First Step Toward SDN
Unless you live under a rock, if you work in IT, you’ve heard of software defined networking (SDN). The question, however, is are you ready for it? If your ...Full Article
On the Front Lines of Advanced Scale Computing: HPC at BP and Rolls-Royce
This is the second of two articles based on the “HPC Impact Showcase” series at SC15 last week in Austin, real-world applications of advanced scale computing to improve business ...Full Article
Windows Server 2016 Adds Hyper-V Container Support
The growing shift toward cloud-native technologies and applications running in "hybrid datacenters" continues with Microsoft's release of more technical details for Windows Server 2016. As EnterpriseTech reported in August, ...Full Article
Towards a ‘Composable Infrastructure’
Composable infrastructure is all about making IT truly programmable in order to get the infrastructure that is needed through a single line of code, the author argues.Full Article
On the Front Lines of Advanced Scale Computing: HPC at Boeing
The Boeing Company has one of the largest corporate IT portfolios in the world, an organization comprised of some 7,500 people, most of them in the United States. Instrumental ...Full Article
IoT Momentum Building From Ground Up
The churn of technology fuels industry consolidation, an inexorable process that includes individual companies as well as industry groups tasked with driving technical standards. The latest example comes from ...Full Article
