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Resolving the Confusion of HCI and Hybrid Cloud
Once a term gets pegged as trendy in enterprise IT, its actual meaning quickly goes out the window. It becomes less about what that word represents, and more about how you can skew your existing...
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Datrium’s Open Convergence, Big Data, and Hybrid Cloud Disambiguation in...
Where Do You Want to Go Today? Here’s your regular look at what’s happening in servers. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter and never miss an update, sign up here! Featured Stories Datrium and...
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NetApp Announces HCI
Hyperconverged infrastructure has been around for a while. We’ve seen companies go public on the strength of the market, and companies get acquired for the same reason. It’s a way to simply the often...
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Caching vs Tiering – The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Caching and tiering have been abused by marketing in enterprise IT, often used interchangeably, or simply when not applicable. Luckily, we’ve got a table, it’s round, and surrounded by storage experts....
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HyperGrid: On-Demand & On-Site
In enterprise IT, there are pretty clear dividing lines between on-site and cloud infrastructure. The benefits and draw backs of each are numerous. If I wanted to be grossly simplistic, I’d say on-site...
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Datera Elastic Data Fabric
Public clouds represent two changes. One is easy to appreciate, the actual location of data has changed from on-site to the remote compute and storage of the public cloud providers. This is easy to...
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QNX Gets Containers
An old dog is learning some new tricks. QNX has been around since the 80s, and the OS is getting a big update from BlackBerry. For those not familiar, QNX began as one of the first OS’s using a...
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Advice to Vendors: Know Your Identity
If I had to guess what the next buzzword was going to be in enterprise IT, “intent driven” seems to be the new hotness. For one, it sounds a lot more humanistic than saying automation. But it also...
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PCIe versus Ethernet in a Composable System
In response to a reader question on his look at Liqid’s composable infrastructure, Russ White frames an interesting question: is it easier to extend PCIe to support switching, and longer runs, or is it...
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AMD’s Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis
AMD finally released it’s initial batch of server CPU’s, under the regretful name EPYC. As promised in their announcement, the chips truly offer some interesting capabilities. No matter which EPYC...
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Windows 10 S and Ransomware
I’ve made no bones about my skepticism about Windows 10 S. It seems to fall into the uncanny valley between a locked down mobile OS versus the full power and vulnerability of regular old Windows. But...
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AMD Attempts Epyc Return to the Data Center
Howard Marks is excited about AMD’s new Epyc server CPU’s: With up to 32 cores, 2TB of RAM, and 128 lanes of PCIe Epyc puts the power of today’s dual socket servers into a single socket. That’s pretty...
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HyperThreading Bug in Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs
Intel’s been having a tough go of it lately with some of their silicon. First their Atom SoCs were causing some Cisco gear to brick back in February. Now comes this news of issues with HyperThreading...
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Is Kubernetes a Flash in the Pan? The On-Premise IT Roundtable
Is Kubernetes simply benefiting from the first mover advantage, or does it have the force to stay the dominant container orchestrator in the enterprise for years to come? The roundtable discusses....
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ASUS Launches NBASE-T Adapter At Just $99
Thanks to Tech Field Day, I’ve become really familiar with NBASE-T, the new standard that promises to add 2.5 and 5 gigabit Ethernet as stepping stones to 10 GBase-T. At Interop this year, Peter Jones...
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What Are ASICs? A Human Example
If you’ve worked in technology for any length of time, you’ve probably come across the term ASIC, which stands for Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. These are specialized chips that you find in...
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Intel Goes Metal With Xeon Scalable Processor Launch
This week, Intel kicked off their next-generation “Xeon Scalable” server CPU line, abandoning the old E5 and E7 names for a “metal” theme. Unlike AMD’s Threadripper and Epyc launches, there are no...
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Changes in AI: Solving Checkers
For me, checkers was always a game to pass time. An innocuous diversion while I waited for something else to do. More than a few restaurants I frequented in my childhood had games setup as a diversion...
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Automation Empowered Backups with Rubrik
This is post 7 of 7 in the series “Rubrik Tech Talk Summer 2017” I longingly remember being a Systems Administrator configuring all my infrastructure through a variety of consoles. Those days are far...
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Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now: Software Lifecycles in the Enterprise
The year is 2017. At this point, whenever Windows Server 2003 provides the inspiration for a blog post, it’s probably not going to be the very salutary. Dan Frith used a recent experience with the...
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