The Coming Intersection of HPC and the Enterprise Data Center – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, February 20th 2018

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High Performance Computing (HPC) traditionally exists as a separate and distinct discipline from enterprise data center computing. Both use the same basic components—servers, networks, storage arrays—but are optimized for different types of applications. Those within the data center are largely...

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Recovering from Digital Transformation – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, November 10th 2017

Analyst Blogs

Digital Transformation projects now abound within enterprise IT. Depending on the vertical industry segment we see IoT, Customer 360, Industry 4.0 and Insurtec to say nothing of the multi-cloud architectures cropping up across the IT landscape. As the operational techs now ease these systems into production,...

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Dell Makes a Big Bet on IoT – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, October 20th 2017

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I attended a Dell-hosted, two-day analyst event last week in New York City. The first day focused on IQT—Dell’s “intelligent” approach to the Internet of Things (IoT). Michael Dell was with us for the entire day. During the second day, company...

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What Changed the Data Storage Problem into a Data-Driven Opportunity? – Part 2

By Eric Slack, Tuesday, July 18th 2017

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Read part 1 here. In the last blog we talked about how the (big) data problem companies are facing as their infrastructures explode is being recast as a data opportunity. A number of things are behind this change, including cell...

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What Changed the Data Storage Problem into a Data-Driven Opportunity?

By Eric Slack, Monday, June 26th 2017

Analyst Blogs

Analysts go to a lot of trade shows and company-sponsored events where vendors show their new products and technologies. At these shows there’s always a theme. For a long time that theme was around data growth; how to storage and...

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Computational Consistency and Why It Matters – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, October 26th 2016

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The advance of Big Data analytics and the need for real time results in application environments such as IoT is driving the need for a new approach to storage. Startups in this space have a particular goal in mind and...

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