MS-GitHub Deal: Open Source Moves Center Stage
Microsoft’s reassurances notwithstanding, the software giant’s acquisition of GitHub, the project collaboration platform, has raised concerns about the future direction of open-source software development. Skeptics are taking a wait-and-see ...Full Article
How to Boost Confidence in Data Analytics
Ideally, data would be the foundation of every business decision: for optimizing operational processes, for analytical insights and for competitive advantage. But a recent TDWI survey exposes a very ...Full Article
Penguin Computing in $85M Acquisition Deal
If another indication were needed of the explosive growth in cloud services, AI-based workloads and Linux in the enterprise - along with their attractiveness to investors - it’s the ...Full Article
Low Code App Modernization Renews Software Running out of Steam
Any enterprise that got its start before the dawn of the internet era comes equipped with a legacy in its systems of records that are several decades old. These ...Full Article
Microsoft Launches Submersible Datacenter
The hotspots and energy hogs that are enterprise datacenters are increasingly located in northern climes. As demand for cooling intensifies, and datacenter power usage maxes out, some have even ...Full Article
HPE’s New Round of Multi-Platform Storage Networking Products
HPE announced several storage networking-related products today, along with the global expansion of its “Complete” reseller model for virtually engineered third-party solutions. Designed to support multiple network protocols and ...Full Article
Machine Learning: Scaling Past the Pilot Phase
In a world of cars that drive themselves and robots that do back flips, the fully automated industrial operation remains an aspiration. Limitations in real-time computing, AI and robotics ...Full Article
Microsoft ‘All In’ For Open Source with GitHub Deal
GitHub, the well-heeled and vibrant project collaboration platform for programmers, is being acquired by Microsoft as the software giant seeks to push deeper into enterprise software development. Microsoft said ...Full Article
Facebook to Build 970,000 Square Foot, 100% Energy Renewable Data Center
Pop Quiz: What type of building is essential to the daily operations of a global business, is nearly a million square feet in size, but has only a few ...Full Article
Exascale for the Rest of Us: exaFLOPS Systems Capable for Industry
Enterprise advanced scale computing – or HPC in the enterprise – is an entity unto itself, situated between (and with characteristics of) conventional enterprise IT, on one side, and ...Full Article