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AWS Acquires NICE Compute-Intensive Cloud and Visualization Technologies
In announcing its acquisition of NICE, the Italy-based software-as-a-service provider for high performance and technical computing, Amazon and AWS not only acquire technology for optimizing customers’ HPC, cloud and ...Full Article
Software Defined Container Orchestration Accelerates Deployment of Large Docker Container Clusters
Containers have exploded through the bulkheads of market acceptance that most new technologies must slog through, crossing the chasm in only three years and transforming the way applications are ...Full Article
Docker as a High-Performance Enabler for Cloud Storage
The container-based service Docker is gaining massive momentum in the industry, and for many good reasons. The current appeal of Docker stems from issues associated with running VMs, namely ...Full Article
Detecting ‘Multi-Stage’ Cloud Cyber-Attacks from the Start
From small, hardly noticeable beginnings the biggest cloud cyber-attacks grow. Called multi-stage intrusion attacks, it’s how hackers create a virtual machine in a public cloud to penetrate the on-prem ...Full Article
Microsoft Eyes Hybrid Cloud Shift With Azure Stack
Microsoft is zeroing in on the steady shift to hybrid cloud deployments with an Azure cloud-based platform that would allow customers to deliver Azure services from their own datacenters. ...Full Article
New Ranking of Public Cloud Providers Reveals Big Price/Performance Disparities
As companies increasingly move portions of their advanced scale computing workloads to the cloud, at least one industry watcher warns that the lure of an instant, scalable virtual infrastructure ...Full Article
Here’s What 6 Smart People Say Enterprise Technology Managers Should Pay Attention to in 2016
Want a prediction that’s a lock for this, and every, year? The pace of innovation in advanced scale computing will accelerate. The spread of HPC into the commercial realm ...Full Article
IBM Combines Watson With IoT
IBM said it would seek to combine its Watson cognitive computing technology with the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) as another way to boost its cloud platform. The company ...Full Article
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
Google Targets AWS With New Cloud Boss Diane Greene
Google is upping the ante in the cloud, moving beyond incremental tactics like price wars with market leader Amazon Web Services, to develop a long-term enterprise strategy under new ...Full Article
