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Red Hat makes large strides in developer experience and supply chain security

Victor Dabrinze — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:40:48 +0000

Several announcements headlined this week’s Red Hat Summit event, one of which was Ansible Lightspeed, an offshoot of last year’s Project Wisdom, geared toward the artificial intelligence-driven automation of IT workloads. On the backend, Red Hat Inc. has also invested in improving the overall experience for Ansible developers, in addition to securing critical software supply chains. “I […]

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Elevance Health’s bottom-up modernization leverages Red Hat/IBM combo

Victor Dabrinze — Thu, 25 May 2023 19:13:40 +0000

The world’s future-forward companies share one understanding: the unavoidable need to digitize with purposive business transformation strategies. Different industries have varying transformation needs, and health insurance service provider Elevance Health Inc. (formerly Anthem Inc.) has opted for a purpose-driven approach enabled by IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc. “When we looked at digital experiences as we […]

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Intel, Red Hat weigh in on the OT/IT convergence driving edge transformation

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 24 May 2023 22:20:39 +0000

While edge computing has always presented its set of challenges and security concerns, its ability to create new business profitability avenues is evident. Features such as artificial intelligence are becoming more capable as IT infrastructures meld with operational technology for edge-driven transformation at scale, according to Christine Boles (pictured, right), vice president of the Network and […]

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Infinidat bolsters software capabilities following stellar Q1 performance

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:33:03 +0000

It’s no news that the global economy isn’t particularly strong. In the wake of contracting organizational budgets and mass layoffs, companies have embraced measures such as austerity and operational restructuring to stay competitive. For Infinidat Ltd., however, a combination of technical and financial value delivery through its range of data storage and protection solutions has […]

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HPC and quantitative finance: A new frontier in real-time risk analysis

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 23 May 2023 20:00:15 +0000

High-performance computing comes in especially handy in operations involving the analysis of large datasets. Traditional application areas such as meteorology, research, manufacturing, life sciences and finance all share this trait. With finance, in particular, HPC is being used at the quantitative level to perform activities ranging from credit valuation adjustment to risk analysis and trading […]

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Composable computing: Pioneering the future of high-performance computing

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 23 May 2023 19:00:54 +0000

Networks are critical as they interlink systems such as servers and storage hardware within high-performance computing systems. But as the demands of organizations from their HPC systems continue to expand, composable technology allows them to retool the entire architecture as required. “In the old days when you wanted to build a cluster and you wanted, say, […]

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Ansible Lightspeed taps LLMs and foundation models for AI-powered IT automation

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 23 May 2023 18:43:51 +0000

Open source has been a boon for the digital enterprise. For one, it birthed the Ansible Automation Platform for software provisioning, configuration management and application deployment — among other things. But as it evolves with the times, what other capabilities are being worked into the Ansible suite? And which technologies will spearhead them? “Lightspeed is […]

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Unleashing the power of generative AI to create value in the enterprise

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 23 May 2023 18:30:01 +0000

The steady trudge of artificial intelligence isn’t stopping anytime soon. From synthesizing human voice and speech to creating unique art, music, prose and poetry, generative AI is opening up new avenues for scholastic and artistic pursuits. But what about its use for businesses? With generative AI being a vast knowledge trove, organizations stand to open […]

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AI’s impact on high-performance computing and how the Omnia project fits in

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 23 May 2023 17:55:25 +0000

Last year, the discourse about high-performance computing trends focused on the increasing importance of software, as opposed to hardware, in steering innovation there. Now, a new factor is at play. Since its recent explosion, artificial intelligence has begun to cut across several HPC operations within the enterprise. “I think there is an intersection between HPC and […]

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How advanced GPUs are shaping AI, as Dell and Scalers AI push boundaries

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:40:29 +0000

Years after artificial intelligence tools like Siri and voice-controlled appliances, ChatGPT showed the world AI’s true breadth of capabilities. Generative AI and large language models aren’t showing any innovation slowdowns. Rather, they will only get more advanced as graphics processing units become more capable, according to Steen Graham (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer of […]

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NVMe and cloud charting the storage path for HPC

Victor Dabrinze — Mon, 22 May 2023 19:14:41 +0000

Prior to the 2010s, most computing tasks were run through the now-outdated spinning disk storage format. Today, advances such as solid-state drives and the pervasive cloud are expanding the capabilities of high-performance computing to harness the power of artificial intelligence. “Now we are seeing the convergence of AI into HPC, and that brings a challenge […]

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Quantum computing shows vast promise, but early-stage expectations must stay realistic

Victor Dabrinze — Mon, 22 May 2023 18:18:40 +0000

The world of enterprise technology moves notoriously fast. Despite the continuous innovation strides in high-performance computing as it exists today, momentum is occurring in parallel to bring forth its next evolution — quantum computing. Quantum computing, in simpler terms, will be another hardware accelerator purpose-built for certain classes of emerging workloads — at least in the […]

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Navigating the power-hungry realm of high-performance computing: Insight from Dell, AMD and atNorth

Victor Dabrinze — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:50:25 +0000

A lot has been made of the inordinate share of the global power supply being consumed by data centers and other high-performance computing resources. With sustainability being a major topic in the HPC space, it’s worth analyzing the steps being taken at the enterprise level to ensure that rapid innovation doesn’t create more harm than […]

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Sustainability in HPC: Balancing increased power with efficient systems and cooling

Victor Dabrinze — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:20:59 +0000

As high-performance computing components, such as servers and graphical processing units, get more capable, they consume more power. Managing these increasingly power-hungry systems and maintaining sustainability requires a combo of efficient power-draw management and powerful cooling. These improvements are already being delivered in accumulating fractions by the likes of Dell Technologies Inc. and Intel Corp. […]

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Leveraging the cloud for high-performance computing: How Dell and Rescale are simplifying complexity

Victor Dabrinze — Mon, 22 May 2023 16:49:17 +0000

The scalability of the cloud has made it a catalyst for transformation in several advancing technologies, including high-performance computing. What trends are accelerating the merging of cloud and HPC — especially for research and enterprise use cases? “After the pandemic, the complexity of HPC became an important issue,” said Shervin Sammak (pictured, right), product manager at Dell […]

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Kubernetes adoption extends to stateful application use cases

Victor Dabrinze — Fri, 19 May 2023 19:30:32 +0000

Cloud-native tools are seeing steady forward movement, with Kubernetes’ ability to manage application states as a strong example. Organizations are now deploying and managing stateful applications at scale with Kubernetes solutions like Kasten. “It’s definitely gone beyond the early adopters; that’s what I’m seeing,” said Tom Leyden (pictured, right), vice president of marketing, Kasten at Veeam. “If […]

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Spotlight refocused on infrastructure within the cloud-native community

Victor Dabrinze — Fri, 19 May 2023 18:30:54 +0000

C-suite executives, especially those in technical roles, always crave faster solutions that are scalable and cost-effective. While those demands are fair, infrastructural underpinnings, such as storage/database and data protection, must never be overlooked. “I think what’s happened in this community is there’s a momentum that’s been built,” said David Nicholson (pictured, right), chief technology officer of […]

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Analyzing the threat of adversarial AI in the wake of ChatGPT’s explosion

Victor Dabrinze — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:31:24 +0000

Since its unveiling in November 2022, ChatGPT has placed artificial intelligence in its strongest-ever positioning within the tech space. However, the capabilities these AI tools offer can’t all be used positively. That’s where adversarial AI comes in, and it might well pose a significant threat to cybersecurity. “In the industry, we’ve been talking about things like […]

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Nomad platform enriches content through advanced AI and metadata analysis

Victor Dabrinze — Thu, 04 May 2023 20:37:23 +0000

In today’s age of over-the-top platforms and livestreaming, media organizations have to be agile and proactive in delivering fresh content to an ever-changing viewership. Top-notch media supply chain management has moved from a nice-to-have to an absolute necessity. Platforms such as Nomad Technologies LLC’s are answering that requirement with savvy content enrichment, workflow management and […]

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Cloud-native brings flexibility and scalability to the media supply chain

Victor Dabrinze — Thu, 04 May 2023 18:46:47 +0000

The central theme of today’s AWS Industry Technology Partners Showcase is the role of cloud technologies in enterprise media supply chains, covering areas such as the creation, management and multi-channel distribution of valuable content. Cloud-native tools, delivered through conduits such as the Amazon Web Services Inc. Marketplace, are answering the need for accelerated content velocity […]

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Operational efficiency and sustainability key as media supply chains move to cloud

Victor Dabrinze — Thu, 04 May 2023 18:10:26 +0000

The enterprise has already seen cloud technologies power exciting advancements from software delivery to data analytics and beyond. Driven by rising demand from content-hungry users and a growing ecosystem of enabling solutions, companies are also doubling down on cloud-native media production and content delivery models. Therefore, a discussion of current media supply chains — and […]

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Governance as a service has arrived, but why should orgs care?

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 02 May 2023 19:43:06 +0000

Delivering solutions as a managed service is nothing new. It’s already taken over security, cloud and infrastructure. With governance next on the list, what gains can organizations expect from this delivery model as opposed to traditional approaches? “We help organizations manage and reduce their costs and risks,” said Travis Stanfield (pictured, right), co-founder and chief executive officer […]

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F5 takes unified approach to app and API security across infrastructures

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 02 May 2023 19:06:47 +0000

Not only has cybersecurity become a joint public/private sector undertaking, but it’s also setting the pace for developers as they create digital products. With the share of distributed computing companies at around 85%, emerging signals indicate the need for coherent application security across hybrid environments. “The current state of RSA and the customer conversations that we’ve […]

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Breaking the data dilemma: how a unified telemetry standard can revolutionize observability

Victor Dabrinze — Mon, 01 May 2023 19:19:34 +0000

Observability tools allow enterprises to monitor the operating state of their systems in real time. However, value stands to be lost when operations teams rush through the initial telemetry pipelines and focus more on storing and analyzing the expanding data. “Right now, there’s a huge problem where people are generating more data into their system, but the […]

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The cybersecurity conundrum: integrated platforms vs. best-of-breed solutions

Victor Dabrinze — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:11:41 +0000

As the enterprise irons out existing cybersecurity kinks, one topic that continues to split opinion is choosing between versatile integrated platforms and purpose-built, best-of-breed solutions. “I think the point is that if you build out a platform, then you don’t need to be best-of-breed,” said Zeus Kerravala (pictured), founder and principal analyst at ZK Research. “If you’re […]

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Solving the problem of inefficient enterprise penetration testing

Victor Dabrinze — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:37:21 +0000

With business-critical resources more vulnerable than ever, there’s been an equal rise in the popularity of penetration testing. However, given the pen-testing industry’s current pitfalls, Bugcrowd Inc. has responded by taking the entire process online. “Our customers can now go to our website and purchase, configure and deploy a pen test with only a few clicks,” said Casey […]

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CrowdStrike partners with Cribl for seamless data transit

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 20:47:25 +0000

Enterprise solutions companies usually broker partnerships to improve existing products or ease end-user pain points. In keeping with the trend, endpoint security company CrowdStrike Inc. has announced a collaboration to leverage Cribl Inc.’s data streaming expertise moving forward. “What’s going on in the market is a lot of our customers are on this [extended detection and […]

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DXC and Portworx extend reach through strategic partnership

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:00:51 +0000

The Kubernetes orchestration standard was designed to make cloud-native application deployment faster, easier and more flexible. Given its current place as a de-facto enterprise standard, the industry is at an inflection point given Kubernetes’ usefulness to data centers and even the multicloud. “If you’re building or running your infrastructure or app now, and if you’re not running […]

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Kubernetes thriving on the growth of DevOps community

Victor Dabrinze — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:21:36 +0000

As one of the world’s largest open-source projects, Kubernetes expands the possibilities for enterprise app development, deployment and management. One of the key highlights at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event this year was the breadth and scope of new projects currently being built within Kubernetes. While already large, the community is still growing. “It’s […]

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Will AI help or hurt enterprise software security at large?

Victor Dabrinze — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:48:32 +0000

Artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz around securing enterprise software and operations. However, a lingering inability to follow best practices and nail the fundamentals still plagues the industry at large, according to Brian Fox (pictured), chief technology officer of Sonatype Inc. “We have done some studies for years, and I think last year was our […]

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