VAST Data allies with Nvidia on reference storage architecture for AI
Venture Beast
JANUARY 21, 2021
VAST Data collaborates with Nvidia to create reference architecture for attaching its storage systems to GPU servers. Read More.
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Accelerating generative AI requires the right storage
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 9, 2023
Generative AI “fuel” and the right “fuel tank” Enterprises are in their own race, hastening to embrace generative AI ( another CIO.com article talks more about this). In generative AI, data is the fuel, storage is the fuel tank and compute is the engine. What does this have to do with technology?
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The blueprint for success: Demystifying enterprise architecture
Dataconomy
MARCH 6, 2023
What is enterprise architecture? This includes its business processes, technology infrastructure, and data architecture. This includes its business processes, technology infrastructure, and data architecture. This helps ensure that technology investments are focused on achieving business objectives.
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Data warehouse architecture
Dataconomy
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Want to create a robust data warehouse architecture for your business? In this blog post, we’ll examine what is data warehouse architecture and what exactly constitutes good data warehouse architecture as well as how you can implement one successfully without needing some kind of computer science degree!
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ASUS unveils powerful, cost-effective AI servers based on modular design
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 18, 2024
That means hardware designed from the ground up for maximum performance, data center integration, AI development support, optimal cooling, and easy vertical and horizontal scaling. That architecture lets ASUS servers exploit the latest NVIDIA advances in GPUs, CPUs, NVME storage, and PCIe Gen5 interfaces.
Avoid generative AI malaise to innovate and build business value
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 1, 2024
Next craft a “to-be” blueprint of what you need to support your strategic vision, including targeted capabilities, future IT architecture, and talent required to facilitate the work. On-premises will allow you to customize your model and support it with hardware optimized to handle heavy compute and storage loads.
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Addressing cloud waste: 4 steps to cloud computing cost optimization
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
By: Scott Sellers , Co-Founder and CEO, Azul From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage
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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 23, 2023
And the importance of energy efficiency for enterprise IT cannot be overstated. With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.
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Mastercard preps for the post-quantum cybersecurity threat
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Other enterprises in the financial sector are also exploring QKD. The final ones are expected to be available in the first half of 2024 and NIST has established a quantum-readiness roadmap for enterprises to follow. Not many hardware vendors have features available that can integrate with the QKD systems.” Miller agrees.
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Finally leverage edge by adopting an as-a-service approach
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 7, 2022
However, many organizations simply don’t have the resources or the expertise to build or manage the complex distributed systems required for effective edge computing delivery, a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data.
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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 16, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).
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Everything-as-a-Service: Huawei Brings the Cloud Ecosystem Within Reach at MWC 2023
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
and how every industry and enterprise stand to benefit from these immense opportunities in the digital space within a global digital ecosystem. Unleashing the Potential of the Cloud through Ecosystem Building Cloud adoption is booming as enterprises identify technology as a key driver of business success.
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Your New Cloud for AI May Be Inside a Colo
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2022
Enterprises moving their artificial intelligence projects into full scale development are discovering escalating costs based on initial infrastructure choices. Cloud Architecture, IT Leadership The reality is that the cloud is not a hammer that should be used to hit every AI nail.
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).
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Multicloud by design approach simplifies the cloud experience
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 20, 2023
This approach brings widely used enterprise management tools and user interfaces to public cloud environments, enabling consistency of management and smoother data mobility. It offers a unified cloud experience while retaining the flexibility to run workloads separately, optimised for the preferred environment.
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Finally leverage edge by adopting an as-a-service approach
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 6, 2022
However, many organizations simply don’t have the resources or the expertise to build or manage the complex distributed systems required for effective edge computing delivery, a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data.
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Nvidia speeds AI, climate modeling
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 22, 2022
Nvidia is hoping to make it easier for CIOs building digital twins and machine learning models to secure enterprise computing, and even to speed the adoption of quantum computing with a range of new hardware and software.
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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia
CTOvision
FEBRUARY 18, 2015
Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera , a leader in enterprise analytic data management. Eddie helps Cloudera enterprise customers reduce security and compliance risks associated with sensitive data sets stored and accessed in Apache Hadoop environments. This creates the most secure Hadoop distribution on the market.
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Convergence presents org-chart challenges
Virtualized Greek
MARCH 25, 2014
The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. These converged solutions allow for simplified infrastructures that scale by just adding additional blocks of integrated storage and compute.
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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud
All Things Distributed
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously. and many, many more.
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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 16, 2023
To gain perspective, Iron Mountain sponsored research by Quadrant Strategies, which used digital listening technologies to study public online conversation trends among enterprise decision-makers. It surpasses blockchain and metaverse projects, which are viewed as experimental or in the pilot stage, especially by established enterprises.
HPE—Taking an award-winning approach to overcome customer modernization challenges
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 7, 2023
And for over 20 years, HPE and VMware have partnered to help more than 200,000 customers overcome their obstacles with digital transformation in enterprises worldwide. Enterprises are now thinking about where they want applications and data to reside—on the edge, in the public cloud, in data centers, or in multiple clouds.
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Innovative Manufacturers are Investing in these Advanced Technologies
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 12, 2023
The Lowdown on Edge Computing As new enterprise IT infrastructure deploys at the edge instead of in corporate data centers, there’s one main trigger for this shift. An edge computing architecture can begin to help solve these problems. A lot of it.
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Bringing AI to your organization? Better bring the right database
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 7, 2023
Let’s take a look at why Cassandra is the database of choice for organizations building enterprise-scale, real-time AI applications. You’ve created the right architecture to collect and store your data and the best way to keep costs low is to leverage what you have. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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Fed Forum 2013 Videos and Briefings Posted
CTOvision
AUGUST 16, 2013
Anthony spelled out how much money can be saved in hardware, software and people by modernization. Most communications capabilities in enterprises today are like an old road system that was put in place a long long time ago. In every other area, from servers to operating systems to applications to storage have changed.
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Technology Short Take #70
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 11, 2016
In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Thinking of using a hardware VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Endpoint) with VMware NSX? Servers/Hardware. Welcome to Technology Short Take #70!
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Nvidia points to the future of AI hardware
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 1, 2024
And if the Blackwell specs on paper hold up in reality, the new GPU gives Nvidia AI-focused performance that its competitors can’t match, says Alvin Nguyen, a senior analyst of enterprise architecture at Forrester Research. So far, the costs and power needs of AI don’t incrementally diminish as enterprises add users or workloads.
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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case
CTOvision
JULY 9, 2014
In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. The data is too big, moves too fast, or does not fit the structures of your database architectures. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc).
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Is Cisco’s ACI vaporware?
Virtualized Greek
DECEMBER 30, 2013
By putting this capability in the hardware platform instead of abstracting it via software customers could reap the benefits of SDN such as orchestration without giving up performance. The announced ACI product has some of these earlier traits but has been labeled a hardware (first) & software solution.
January 2017 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter
Storage IO Blog
JANUARY 21, 2017
There is a lot going on, in and around data infrastructure server, storage, and I/O networking connectivity from a hardware, software, and services perceptive.
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40 IDF 2014 Day 2 Recap
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Second, make the hardware programmable, through standard interfaces. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel' Expo Floor.
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Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
F5′s products use Intel CPUs, but they also leverage FPGAs to selectively enable certain functions in hardware for improved performance. The first area of SDI that Bryant focuses upon is storage, where growth is happening rapidly but storage is still siloed. IDF 2013: Rack Scale Architecture for Cloud.
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How the Edge Is Changing Data-First Modernization
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 16, 2022
At the same time, the availability of 5G connectivity and an influx of robust, cost-effective edge processing power have made it possible to decentralize data storage and real-time analytics processing power and position it closer to the actual data source. IDC estimates that there will be 55.7 How edge refines data strategy.
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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 3, 2023
With nearly 140 employees, the high-performance data center provides government agencies with mission-critical compute, storage, and networking solutions needed to provide important services to citizens. Our teams are driven, enterprising and a bit headstrong,” adds Jansma. ODC-Noord’s agile teams are comprised of skilled personnel.
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Technology Short Take #41
Scott Lowe
MAY 9, 2014
Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments).
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Technology Short Take #37
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 6, 2013
A fan of network virtualization might also say that decomposing today’s complex physical networks into multiple simple logical networks on top of a simpler physical transport network—similar to Mike’s suggestion of converging on a smaller set of reference architectures—might also help. (Of Servers/Hardware.
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60 Tulane University SoPA Selects "Architechting Cloud Computing Solutions"
Cloud Musings
FEBRUARY 16, 2019
Jackson and Scott Goessling was selected for use by the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, Applied Computing Systems & Technology Program as the textbook for their mandatory Enterprise Architecture - Hardware course starting Spring Semester 2019. This content is being syndicated through multiple channels.
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Technology Short Take 115
Scott Lowe
JUNE 21, 2019
Although I believe David’s post focuses on Enterprise PKS, it may also apply to NSX-T when integrating with “generic” Kubernetes as well. (I Servers/Hardware. Software company Agile Bits recently announced support for U2F-compatible hardware security keys in their 1Password product. Cool stuff.
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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. Intel announced yesterday that the new XL710 network adapters (which are 40Gbps adapters) will support Geneve hardware offloads. Coffee Chats.
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60 COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. The DPDK contains data plane libraries, optimized NIC poll mode drivers, a runtime environment, a new queuing environment for the Linux kernel, and an Environment Abstraction Layer (EAL) that automatically optimizes for various Intel architectures (Atom, Core, Xeon).
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IDF 2013: Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Bhandaru takes over to provide an overview of the OpenStack architecture. Next, Intel talks about how they have worked to expose hardware features into OpenStack. Gopal now takes over and moves the discussion into storage in OpenStack. Not surprisingly, they use the diagram prepared by Ken Pepple.)
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Vendor Meetings at VMworld 2013
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
Jeda Networks describes themselves as a “software-defined storage networking” company. Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. At that point, the system DRAM almost looks like another level of cache.
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Technology Short Take #39
Scott Lowe
MARCH 7, 2014
Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies. x86 marches on! Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.
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