CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Big Data collection at scale is increasing across industries, presenting opportunities for companies to develop AI models and leverage insights from that data. Blockchain Opportunities Decentralization: Blockchain advocates hope to realign control of the Internet by taking away the power held by big technology companies seen as gatekeepers.

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Artificial Intelligence Virtualization Research Industry 82

GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2023

Energy generation and storage, food production, climate modeling, disease treatment and genetic repair are all potential targets for quantum supremacy. ” Tech titans haven’t yet settled on the best basis for quantum computing: Amazon, Google and IBM use superconducting circuits in their hardware. Why is that?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Cloud Computing » IBM. IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry. IBM, Pivotal Team to Boost CloudFoundry. IBM Pledges Full Support for CloudFoundry. We look forward to growing and expanding an open Cloud Foundry community together with IBM.”. By: Rich Miller July 24th, 2013.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

I wrote device drivers for the IBM PC, as well as Apple Mac IIs and SEs.”. Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”.

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Dataconomy

JULY 25, 2023

1990s – Wearable assistants The 1990s witnessed significant advancements in wearable technology, with devices like the MIT Media Lab’s “Personal Information Environments” (PIE) and the IBM “WristPad” showcasing wearable computing concepts.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2018

Transformation requires a new approach that balances cost and technology choices with company direction and client consumption models. Morgan Chase and Worldwide Sales Executive at IBM. Organizations must align modern technology and current economic models to business strategy. Scott's perspectives combine many real-world experiences.

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Disaster Recovery Cloud CTO Hire Architecture 79

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Cloud Computing » IBM. IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z. IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z. IBM acquires CSL International. As a strategic investment to further its System z portfolio, IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire CSL International.

Data Center 190

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Why do we have data networks, storage networks and management networks (all distinct, I might add). Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact. an audio jack to a cassette tape for storage.). Why is clustering inherently so complex?

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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. Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). It may be difficult to determine the exact point at which you should leverage one over the other.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

True, both have made huge strides in the hardware world to allow for blade repurposing, I/O, address, and storage naming portability, etc. Planning and managing cabling from a traditional blade solution to the storage and ethernet networks is a usually a major task. But really, how simple?

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

The company announced the acquisition of the Evocative site on Thursday. SoftLayer Becomes Part of IBM’s SmartCloud - This week IBM closed its acquisition of SoftLayer. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure – in many cases, the storage platform has become the heart of a cloud solution.

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Data Center Data IBM Storage 210

GeekWire

JULY 16, 2020

The company just announced a $125 million funding round that propels its valuation to more than $1.2 Qumulo launched back in 2012 , betting that companies would need help storing and managing large amounts of file data. . Other Qumulo competitors include Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, IBM, and others. Qumulo Photo).

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Storage Cloud Analysis Data 144

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Prior to joining Nlyte, Matt worked at IBM for more than ten years, helping to launch multiple products in their Information Management and SMB groups. For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. By: Industry Perspectives July 19th, 2013.

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Data Center Trends Data Disaster Recovery 247

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

software that adds support for Fibre Channel to its existing iSCSI support, enabling Granite solutions to now support over 90 percent of the current enterprise-class storage array market. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 191

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Award winning visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic is an Australia-based company behind many blockbuster movies. To accomplish rendering on movies and keep pace with rapidly growing compute demands, the company has had to constantly evaluate on-premise equipment upgrades or cloud opportunities. Comments (required).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

I’ve been in the data storage industry for years, and our customers STILL have some sort of tape storage lingering around. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Evolution of Storage and Backup Technology. Yet in 2013, many data centers are still using tape.

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Data Center Data Backup Storage 195

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

DH Capital is well known in the Internet infrastructure space, specializing and advising in some high-profile deals in the space, including SoftLayer’s sale to IBM. Last month it led a Notably, it led a Series D Funding round for FireHost, a company known for providing ultra-secure cloud. Comments (required). White Papers.

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Data Center Internet Data Groups 178

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

The company says that unlike many DCIM solutions, Romonet’s Portal 2.0 can be deployed and delivering value in days without disruptive and costly hardware or software agents. IBM Targets Cloud Services Market. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Romonet: Using Blueprints to Predict Performance.

Data Center 185

Data Center Disaster Recovery Data Storage 185

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Private equity firm GI Partners has acquired One Wilshire, the leading carrier hotel in Los Angeles and one of the most wired buildings in the world, the company confirmed this week. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

Data Center 205

Data Center Real Estate Data Storage 205

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Given that IBM strengthened its position with “born on cloud” companies through its acquisition of SoftLayer , it makes sense that Amazon would continue to try to push upmarket, towards the enterprise, given its strengths with startups. Both companies are targeting one another’s strongholds. Comments (required).

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Enterprise Enterprise Data Center Storage 207

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc., An alternative model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

That way the group that added too many fancy features that need too much storage and server time will have to account for their profligacy. Smaller teams with simple configurations can probably get by with the stock services of the cloud companies. Cost containment is a big issue for many CIOs now and the cloud companies know it.

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Tools Cloud Budget Artificial Intelligence 116

CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2017

PKWARE ’s Smartcrypt is a revolution in enterprise data centric security management enabling companies to maintain complete control over their protected data. Takes advantage of IBM and Intel hardware encryption accelerators. Data compressed up to 95% before encryption, resulting in significant storage/transit savings.

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Data Policies Security Applications 150

Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Note that the author apparently works for Mirantis, which is a company that provides OpenStack consulting services.

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Virtualization Storage Vmware Network 101

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

According to this Gartner report, two of the leading providers in the sector, IBM and BMC, did show modest year-on-year growth in 2012 of 0.8 In contrast, a group of the fastest-growing companies mustered growth rates ranging from 84.4 Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. percent and 0.9 percent and 4.3

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Data Center Big Data Data Analysis 209

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 21, 2013

A mix of private and public cloud services is a great compromise for companies who are worried about security issues, writes Alan McMahon of Dell. In the past, linear storage media was used as the first line of defense to restore lost data. Industry Perspectives: IBM, iTRACS, Plixer. RELATED POSTS: Industry Insights Wanted.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

While players like IBM may or may not use the code to provide a Cloud service but will take every consulting opportunity as a result of the project. They brought a virtual network company and got rid of their PaaS solutions. With all of the major hardware vendors onboard, why not strike and try to leverage your position.

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Vmware Open Source Virtualization Cloud 72

The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

An outdoor cooking company with an influencer staff and a Roku app If your TikTok algorithm is anything like mine, you know that Weber and Traeger are not necessarily the hottest thing in cooking outside. And the company behind the griddle revolution is called Blackstone Products and they make the Blackstone griddle.

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Retail Advertising Social Media 96

Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Right-on… Then there is a report by Gartner Research on fabric-based computing… which estimated that by the end of 2012, roughly 30% of the world’s top 2000 companies would have some form of fabric-based computing architecture. As physical/virtual servers move, migrate and scale, storage simply follows. Ken Oestreich.

Data Center 138

Data Center Virtualization HP Cloud 138

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Hardware consolidation. When most IT professionals think "virtualization" they are mostly wanting to consolidate/reduce hardware. But essentially its about converging data, storage, and even out-of-band management information along a single (high bandwidth, low-latency) wire. and its very different from Hardware consolidation.

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Virtualization Software Software Data Center 124

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Truth-be told, Egeneras own BladeFrame hardware already supports 128GB of memory, on 6-core, 4-way boards. These connections also give the blades very fast Ethernet access to both the network and storage devices and eliminate the need for a storage-area network (SAN). More about IBM, Cisco, Juniper, and Clouds.

Data Center 100

Data Center Dell Virtualization Storage 100

Cloud Musings

JUNE 7, 2016

Dwight Bu e s & Kevin Jackson This is Part 1 of a three part series that addresses the need for a systems engineering approach to IoT and cloud network design: The “Internet of Things” depends on the “Cloud” for the processing and storage of data. The Cloud’s backbone, however, is the network.

Government 70

Government Network Cloud Engineering 70

Dataconomy

APRIL 4, 2023

From software and hardware to data and security, XaaS solutions provide businesses with a flexible and scalable platform to meet their technology needs without the need for significant capital investments or in-house expertise. This allows businesses to access the hardware they need without the high upfront costs associated with ownership.

Backup 31

Backup Devops Resources Network 31

Dataconomy

APRIL 4, 2023

From software and hardware to data and security, XaaS solutions provide businesses with a flexible and scalable platform to meet their technology needs without the need for significant capital investments or in-house expertise. This allows businesses to access the hardware they need without the high upfront costs associated with ownership.

Backup 28

Backup Devops Resources Network 28

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Keeping on top of activity in this area can help your company make the most of emerging opportunities and steer clear of issues that often arise when vendors combine. The appetite of Indian IT service companies for European acquisitions is still unsated. Equinix buys West African data center company for $320 million.

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Enterprise Enterprise Oracle SAP 141