At the end of last year, we were approached by Vembu technologies about producing some content for them, now to be honest they are not a company I have had any experience with and I wasn’t aware of their products. So as would any self-respecting admin/Blogger would do, I paid a visit to their…
Predictions for 2019, Part 2
Part 2, continued from here AI/Machine Learning: Alan Conboy, office of the CTO, Scale Computing “In 2019 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will nearly reach its full potential by connecting and processing data faster over a global distribution of edge computing platforms. AI and ML insights have always been available, but possibly leveraged…
Predictions for 2019, Part 1
2018 is coming to a close, and has been a year of continued growth in enterprise computing, with GDPR legistlation causing many to scramble for compliance, security and pricvacy scandles, development of 5G networking, and growth of connected devices and IoT. We have reached out to a few big players in the industry to get…
Cross vCenter vMotion UI from VMware Flings #FreeVMwareStuff
File this under – have you seen it? Cross vCenter vMotion is one of the most useful features that was introduced in recent years. I say that because a lot of times we have consolidation projects in a company that does a lot of mergers and acquisitions. We inherit companies that already have vSphere and…
HPE Discover 2018 – Work with OEMs continues HPE’s tradition of innovation
Hewlett Packard has a tradition of innovation – from its inventions in a Palo Alto, CA, garage to the current iteration of Hewlett Packard Labs. But one area of innovation exists outside of the research labs and it involves collaboration with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). OEMs work with HPE to integrate HPE technology into their…
HPE Discover 2018 – Speed and Intelligence take center stage for 3PAR and Nimble
This week for HPE Discover in Madrid, HPE is talking about Speed and Intelligence within its storage lines. Chiefly, the company’s folks are talking about 3PAR and Nimble and while there are other storage lines in the portfolio – most of the talking is around these two flagship platforms. HPE Nimble is built for use…
HPE Discover 2018 – Nimble storage finally gets sync replication, more
After months of teasing that synchronous replication was coming, Nimble has finally delivered the capabilities to customers. HPE announced the new capability this week during HPE Discover in Madrid, but it went beyond simple replication in the same announcement. HPE also enabled the ability to do metro clustering between Nimble storage arrays in the same…
Repost: E8 Storage and Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC deliver high performance with hardware acceleration
E8 Storage and Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC deliver high performance with hardware acceleration Showcasing a live demo at SuperComputing 2018, the integration optimizes computing resources while accelerating data intensive workloads SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 13, 2018 – E8 Storage today announced it is expanding its technology partnership with Mellanox with an integrated solution built on Mellanox BlueField SmartNICs, which…
Spectra Logic Announces the World’s Largest Data Storage Machine
Spectra Logic Announces the World’s Largest Data Storage Machine Capable of Protecting More than 2,000 Petabytes (2EB) of Digital Assets. Wow, That’s mind-bending ammounts of storage 20TB per tape at 400MB/s ! Congratulations to Spectra Logic on pushing the boundaries and giving us a glimpse of the future! Read more at the official press release…
E8 STORAGE ACCELERATES PERFORMANCE FOR GENOMIC WORKLOADS AT QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
E8 STORAGE ACCELERATES PERFORMANCE FOR GENOMIC WORKLOADS AT QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Having worked both as a researcher in computational chemistry and as IT support for the Department of Chemistry at a major University I understand the demards and inportance of storage in such an environment. I congratulate Queen Mary University of London for…