News Western Digital’s ActiveScale 5.5 Streamlines Workflows, More By Wendy A. Hernandez 07/31/2019 This week Western Digital Corp. (WDC) announced key enhancements to its ActiveScale cloud object storage family, which include improved scale-out performance, a new Data Pipeline Service, asynchronous Geo-Spread, and improved storage density and economics. For large-scale data workflows, ActiveScale 5.5 coupled with […]
Archives for July 2019
Presentation: Putting the Spark in Functional Fashion Tech Analytics
Gareth Rogers shows how his team used Clojure to provide a solid platform to connect and manage an AWS hosted analytics pipeline and the pitfalls they encountered on the way. By Gareth Rogers
The role of next-gen firewalls in an evolving security architecture
As the commercial enterprise firewall approaches its 30th birthday, it is hard to overstate how dramatically the product has evolved. This 2,700-word research report looks the current state of next-generation firewall technology.
Run Windows Server and SQL Server workloads seamlessly across your hybrid environments
In recent weeks, we’ve been talking about the many reasons why Windows Server and SQL Server customers choose Azure. Security is a major concern when moving to the cloud, and Azure gives you the tools and resources you need to address those concerns. Innovation in data can open new doors as you move to the […]
Atlassian CIO’s Lessons for Better M&As and Divestitures
Is there anything more headache inducing than the idea of IT efforts needed for a merger or acquisition? Here’s a look at one CIO’s journey and lessons learned.
Global IaaS market increased by 31.3% in 2018 to $32.4bn
News 30 Jul, 2019 Daniel Todd Gartner notes that cloud growth favours the dominant players as smaller firms lose market share
VMware strikes public cloud partnership with Google Cloud
News 30 Jul, 2019 Keumars Afifi-Sabet Enterprise customers seeking ways to adopt hybrid configurations will have greater flexibility
VMware Aims To Advance Telco Portfolio with Uhana Acquisition
News VMware Aims To Advance Telco Portfolio with Uhana Acquisition By John K. Waters 07/30/2019 Last week VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire Uhana, “a company that has built a real-time deep learning engine to optimize carrier network operations and application quality experience, deployable in the operator private cloud or public cloud infrastructure,” according […]
Circle CEO, Jeremy Allaire Testifies Ahead Of Today’s Hearing on Blockchain and Crypto
On Monday, Circle co-founder and CEO, Jeremy Allaire, has submitted a document containing his testimony to the U.S Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban affairs. This was in preparation towards the Senate Hearing in which Mr. Jeremy Allaire is the major witness for the topic of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. As the committee now looks […]
China and the US racing for AI supremacy might drag us all to the bottom
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“…. Maybe [deep learning] could help to refine approximate structure predictions; report on how confident the algorithm is in a folding prediction; or model interactions between proteins. And although computational predictions aren’t yet accurate enough to be widely used in drug design, the increasing accuracy allows for other applications, such as understanding how […]