Chris Preimesberger

AMD would like to democratize supercomputing IT for use in all enterprise systems. Of course, something like that wouldn’t do it any harm business-wise. If one looks around at the huge systems installed at places such as CERN, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Sandia Labs, you would easily deduce this as a preposterous statement. However, something […]

Plenty of news is coming forth from the SC17 supercomputing conference in Denver this week, including Micron Technology’s announcement Nov. 13 of its new 32GB NVDIMM-N offering twice the capacity of existing NVDIMMs. Now let us parse that a bit. This is a 32GB solid-state, non-volatile dual inline memory module that carries double the capacity […]

Off the top, you need to know that this isn’t about Nimble, the storage company that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise bought back in March for a cool $1 billion. This is about the other Nimble, a work productivity application maker based in what’s becoming known as Silicon Beach–Santa Monica, Calif. This smaller company on Nov. 8 launched […]

The household-name IT companies are making their moves to provide competing goods and services in the fast-growing blockchain infrastructure IT realm. Following IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise on Nov. 10 revealed its first product in what it calls the HPE Mission Critical Blockchain group. Mission Critical Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a solution that […]

Here’s the latest example of a new occasional feature in eWEEK called IT Science, in which we look at what really happens at the intersection of new-gen IT and legacy systems. Unless it’s brand new and right off various assembly lines, servers, storage and networking inside every IT system can be considered “legacy.” This is because the iteration […]

Talend, a provider of big data and cloud integration software, revealed Nov. 9 that it is acquiring all outstanding shares of Restlet SAS, a cloud-based, open source API design and testing platform. Terms of the transaction were not released. Nantes, France-based Restlet uses the cloud to provide API design, documentation, testing and hosting capabilities to developers. […]

Amazon Web Services is expanding its private cloud options with the launch of AWS PrivateLink, a new endpoint service designed for customers who want to access the cloud in a highly available and scalable manner yet keep all the traffic within AWS only. As of the launch Nov. 9, the Kinesis, Service Catalog, Amazon EC2, […]

A lot of people don’t realize that Panasas, created by the industry-legendary Garth Gibson and born at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh two decades ago, invented the high-performance parallel file-system storage genre that uses both hard disk drives and solid-state disks. On Nov. 8, the company, now based in Sunnyvale, Calif., unveiled the next generation of its […]

Quick Base is one of a group of up-and-coming IT companies riding a rising wave of interest: It makes a low-code platform  for business-application developers. It has lots of company, too; companies competing in this space include Appian, Webalo, Dell Boomi, Pega Systems, Google, Telerik, K2, Appery.io and several others. It’s probably too early to expect a shakeout in this growing sector, but know […]

7 Tips for Transitioning to Cloud and Monitoring Hybrid Infrastructure Enterprises typically have large and complex critical infrastructures that seem to be constantly undergoing many architectural shifts, including migrations to the cloud. For these organizations, comprehensive monitoring of their entire environment is a must, but it can be costly. If it’s done wrong, it can […]