Storage, CxO Security Events, AI, Operations, HPC, Cloud, DDN, Datacore, Dell, Fortinet (296.3.Thursday)
John J. McLaughlin
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Storage
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Operations
HPC
Cloud
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Storage
According to a report from analysts from ReportLinker published on November 9, 2022, in the changed post Covid-19 business landscape, the global market for Video Surveillance Storage (VSS) estimated at $7.4 billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of $10.6 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 5.4% over the analysis period 2020-2027.
SAN, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 4.7% CAGR and reach $3.7 billion by the end of the analysis period. Taking into account the ongoing post pandemic recovery, growth in the DAS segment is readjusted to a revised 5% CAGR for the next 7-year period ...?more
Seagate has added a second read/write head to its Exos 16 and 18TB disk drives, more than doubling their data transfer speed.
It dubs this its Mach2 actuator technology, an actuator being a read/write head. The actuators are divided into two sets, with each applying to half the platters in the disks and capable of operating independently from the other set. Seagate has not made a formal announcement about this but the drive has sprung up in its product website pages...?more
Seagate has updated its lineup of dual-actuator hard drives (named MACH.2) with the Seagate Exos 2X18.
First shipped in 2019, these HDDs owe their speedy performance to its twin actuators via the MACH.2 technology, quoting up to double the performance of competing enterprise single-actuator 3.5-inch hard drives. This makes them ideal for environments like hyperscale applications, both cloud and massive scale-out data centers, and content delivery networks. ...?more
Is there still a case to be made for the aging HDD storage technology? You bet there is.
Data storage continues to be a battle between the incumbent HDD (Hard Disk Drive) and the SSD (Solid State Drive). But on first blush, it might seem like the newer, faster SSDs are far better suited for every task than HDDs, and that there's no reason to consider HDDs anymore...?more
CxO Security Events
In this editorial webinar, we'll examine the current state of application security, the challenges associated with ensuring code is free of vulnerabilities and explore some of the best practices organizations can take to shift security further left in the software development life cycle.
There is increasing focus on the security of open source software in the wake of a series of high-profile breaches involving software supply chains. As most, if not all, applications developed today use some form of open source code, the concern is that a bad actor will contribute code loaded with malware to a widely-used project...?more
Are you trying to ensure your organization has the cyber resilience it needs? We're here to help!
Cautious organizations prepare for disasters with measures like cyber insurance and good backups. Yet, cyberattacks, climate change, a pandemic, and civic unrest are threatening business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience plans. Ransomware has become so costly that insurers are raising premiums or leaving the cyber market entirely. Backup data centers are at risk of damage from wildfires, floods, and heat waves...?more
AI
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has long been one of the world's largest consumers of supercomputing capacity. With computing power of more than 200 petaflops, or 200 billion floating-point operations per second, the U.S. Department of Energy-operated institution runs supercomputers from every major U.S. manufacturer.
For the past two years, that lineup has included two newcomers: Cerebras Systems Inc. and SambaNova Systems Inc. The two startups, which have collectively raised more than $1.8 billion in funding, are attempting to upend a market that has been dominated so far by off-the-shelf x86 central processing units and graphics processing units with hardware that's purpose-built for use in artificial intelligence model development and inference processing to run those models. ...?more
Operations
As technology rapidly changes and advances, data centers are required to change and evolve with it. So do the operations teams responsible for keeping them running smoothly.
Of the many lessons, the global pandemic taught us that we cannot treat data center operations as status quo. The sudden decrease in on-site personnel made managing and monitoring these facilities more complex and challenging than ever. It also highlighted the critical need for remote management and monitoring capabilities...?more
This week I had the privilege of attending SC22, the supercomputing conference, in Dallas, TX. Supercomputing centers are early adopters of technologies that will soon be common in most data centers.
Thus, the sessions I attended, the attendees I spoke with, and the solutions on display in the exhibit hall provided me with an eye-opening glimpse into tomorrow's data center...?more
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HPC
The top 10 of the semiannual TOP500 list of supercomputers for November 2022 has just one new entrant, Leonardo, which jumped in at #4.
Frontier, which became the first exascale supercomputer in June and ranked number one among the fastest in the world, retained that title in the new TOP500 semiannual list of the world's fastest ...?more
The TOP500 list ranks the world's most powerful supercomputers by their performance on the LINPACK Benchmark, while the Green500 list ranks the top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world by measuring their energy efficiency features
The TOP500 and the Green500 lists are compiled twice a year in June and November. The lastest rankings have been released earlier this week at the SC22 conference in Dallas, United States ...?more
Cloud
With most organizations using more than two public clouds, new multi-cloud networking strategies are essential to enable cross-cloud traffic and visibility across multiple clouds.
The increased enterprise adoption of multiple public clouds can't be ignored. As organizations continue to mature their digital transformation initiatives, more applications and workloads are being distributed across multiple public clouds ...?more
Gartner predicts that worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will grow to $591.8 billion in 2023, a 20.7% growth from 2022.
The public cloud horse race has several cloud services companies jockeying for position, and Gartner's recently released 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services ranks the strengths and weaknesses of the top eight...?more
Many multi-cloud security challenges arise from misunderstandings about the cloud. Here are five common mistakes organizations can make and how to rectify them.
When an organization moves even a few workloads to the cloud, it changes everything - the way you access, pay for, store, and secure your resources. But most companies today have moved past that initial dip into the cloud and now embrace the popular multi-cloud model...?more
Cloud computing offers a ton of amazing benefits that businesses can't ignore.
Cloud technology is becoming more essential for modern organizations with each passing day. A report by Gartner shows that cloud technology has transformed modern business in previously unimaginable ways. The report indicated that 75% of organizations using the cloud have a 'cloud first' policy, which is a much higher figure than previous versions of the report indicated ...?more
DDN News
DDN's latest AI Reference Architecture demonstrates the optimization of DDN's A3I with Atos' BullSequana XH3000 supercomputing platform.
DDN the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced at SC22, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, a new Reference Architecture in collaboration with Atos. DDN also introduced enhancements to its scalable and flexible monitoring interface, DDN Insight, to streamline and simplify management and support of HPC and AI infrastructures at-scale. ...?more
Datacore News
DataCore Software announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has chosen DataCore as a Finalist for the 2022 CRN Tech Innovator Awards. The company is being recognized for DataCore Bolt 1.0 in the Storage Cloud category.
This annual award program celebrates innovative vendors in the IT channel across 38 different technology categories, in critical business areas ranging from cloud to storage to networking to security. The selection process for this year's winners was overseen by a panel of CRN editors and is based on a review of hundreds of vendor products using multiple criteria. These include key capabilities, uniqueness, technological ingenuity, and best fit with customer and solution provider needs. ...?more
Cloud adoption is conspicuously rising across different regions of the world, but in varying levels of magnitude and confidence.
Some businesses are boldly bursting workloads in the cloud, while others tread more cautiously - still concerned with cloud security, latencies, and unpredictable costs. For these reasons organizations are exploring a mix of private and public clouds to store and protect data based on diverse backup, retention, recovery, and compliance needs. They seek the flexibility to balance data placement across on-premises and off-site locations in a hybrid cloud model. ...?more
Dell News
We hear it everywhere - the economy is uncertain, and in the face of rising inflation and interest rates, businesses need to adapt.
The common refrain that we hear from business leaders is, 'how can I do more with less?' How can IT organizations continue to modernize and create a competitive advantage, while continuing to support the business at the same time?...?more
Dell APEX, by design, is a significant step forward in embracing Dell's commitment to the Green Data Center.
Environmental sustainability is no longer icing on the cake, it's a necessary ingredient to an organization's business strategy. Leading IT companies have a responsibility to manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Dell APEX, by design, is a significant step forward in embracing Dell's commitment to the Green Data Center. Furthermore, Dell demonstrates the highest standards in commitment to sustainability when coupled with its strategic partnerships ensuring that our customer experience, especially within the APEX portfolio, offers the brightest future for our global IT ecosystem. ...?more
Modern and secure multicloud data protection made easy.
Dell introduced the new PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance to help you simplify data protection, enhance cybersecurity and get more IT self-service capabilities so you can speed up your digital modernization efforts.
65 percent of respondents to the 2022 Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) snapshot research indicated that increased data protection operational management time and complexity is a challenge facing their organization. ...?more
Fortinet News
It's early November, and consumers are making their lists and checking them twice.
Holiday shopping and related promotions are already in full swing. Retailers like Amazon already held early Prime Days in October. Numerous other big-box retailers are offering Black Friday-style discounts to appeal to consumers' desires to stock up on gifts earlier this year....?more
As many prepare for the holiday season and online shopping remains top of mind, cybercriminals are dusting off their old tricks and preparing for one of the busiest times of the year.
With more people shopping online than ever before, cybercriminals are now looking to target the higher traffic flows online as shoppers look for the latest holiday deals. Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs' Derek Manky and Aamir Lakhani provide some insight into how shoppers and organizations can protect themselves. ...?more
Fortinet is at the forefront of dynamic changes in cybersecurity and networking as an industry leader for over 20 years. Fortinet's founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO, Ken Xie offers his perspective on important industry trends, business momentum, and how Fortinet is helping customers achieve their sustainability goals.
Ken: Revenue for the quarter grew 33%, significantly outpacing the industry growth rate. Product revenue growth was very strong at 39%, extending our position as a product revenue leader in the cybersecurity industry ...?more