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Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
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Event |
| 1:05p |
“Everybody’s in the Edge Game”
Ihab Tarazi, entrepreneur in residence at Suter Hill Ventures and former Equinix CTO, on The Data Center Podcast | | 6:20p |
Can Ancient Chinese Military Strategy Bring Success in Cyber Conflict?
Without an understanding of who the enemy really is, how they operate, and the many techniques they use to gain entry, successful defense is unlikely. | | 6:59p |
Is Open Source RISC-V Ready to Take on Intel, AMD, and ARM in the Data Center?
Open source startup SiFive introduces a single board computer running Linux on the open RISC-V architecture. Is the data center next? | | 7:37p |
Software Reshuffles Gartner’s Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Pecking Order (FB)
Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for hyper-converged infrastructure is out, using such a different definition of “hyper-converged” and with such a narrower a focus, that you can’t compare vendor positions to previous years. In particular, software-only, “bring-your-own-hardware” hyper-converged systems have become significant enough to earn a place in the report, because they’re increasingly competing with hyper-converged hardware appliances. That means Microsoft and VMware’s hyper-converged software is now in the report. VMware appears in the Leaders quadrant, along with Nutanix, Dell EMC, and HPE. Microsoft shares the Visionaries quadrant with Stratoscale. The Challengers quadrant is occupied by Cisco, Huawei, and Pivot3, while the Niche Players are Scale Computing DataCore, and HTBase. | | 7:42p |
Oracle to Launch 12 Cloud Data Centers Around the World (FB)
Oracle announced a plan to add 12 locations to the list of availability regions hosting its new enterprise cloud platform. Today, the platform is hosted in two locations in the US and one in Europe. Most of the expansion will be in Asia, where the new platform, launched in 2016, currently has no physical presence. Oracle is also adding data centers in Europe, North America, and Saudi Arabia. While it’s far behind the biggest cloud providers, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, both in terms of market share and the amount of infrastructure built around the world, the major shift of enterprise applications from on-premises data centers to the cloud started only recently. Most of the world’s mission-critical enterprise workloads still run in companies’ own facilities, so there’s still plenty of opportunity to gain market share. Oracle had 0.3 percent share of the cloud infrastructure market in 2016, according to Gartner, compared to Amazon’s 44 percent and Microsoft’s 7.1 percent. | | 7:46p |
Is Open Source RISC-V Ready to Take on Intel, AMD, and ARM in the Data Center? (FB)
Fabless RISC-V semiconductor company SiFive announced it's taking pre-orders through a campaign on Crowd Supply for HiFive Unleashed, a single-board computer (SBC) that runs Linux on the RISC-V-based quad-core 1.5GHz U540 system-on-a-chip, which the company announced in October. The campaign, which runs through March 15, has so far raised nearly $95,000, with orders due to be shipped on June 30. The silicon design isn't likely to end up in any commercial equipment anytime soon. But it's an important step for RISC-V, an architecture based on RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) principles. Many top-tier chipmakers are already invested in the architecture; the nonprofit RISC-V Foundation, founded in 2015, now has more than 75 corporate members, including names like Google, NVIDIA, Samsung, Rambus, Qualcomm, Western Digital, and IBM. | | 10:00p |
Native Cloud Controls Not Enough for Meaningful Micro-Segmentation
Cloud customers need to be proactive and scrupulous in understanding the full extent of the provider’s security capabilities, then figuring out what they need to do in order to hold up their end of the shared security bargain. |
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