Event Report: #GoogleNext17 On Path To Enterprise Ready
Google Cloud Takes Key Steps To Enterprise Class Over 10,000 customers, prospects, partners, Google developers, and employees gathered in San Francisco’s Moscone West Conference Center for Google’s flagship enterprise event. Of note, Alphabet CEO, Eric Schmidt, book ended the event by highlighting the $30 billion capital infrastructure investment into the overall Google Cloud Platform. The […]
Trends: Five Data Center Trends For 2017
2017 Trends Reflect Faster, Better, Cheaper, Safer, Mantra Of Hyperscale Source: Google As clients make a shift from on-premises traditional data centers to the cloud, mega vendors will rush to build out their hyperscale data centers. Hyperscale data centers use nodes to flex up and flex down on compute power, storage, networking, and memory […]
Cloud Architect’s Song
I was looking for an old post and noticed that HP had taken down all the old TNBT posts. One that always made me chuckle I’d put together a number of years back was the Cloud Architect’s song. I couldn’t find the exact version I had posted but I did my best to recreate it […]
What if we could take the heat out of the transistor easier?
For about the last decade efforts in computer design have moved away from higher clock speeds to providing more computing cores. Consumer PC computer speeds have topped out at close to 4 GHz for one reason – heat! The faster they run, and the denser the transistors, the more heat generated to the point where […]
Anxious for the real release of Windows 10
As everyone knows by now, the new version of Windows will ship the end of July. I signed up and placed some earlier beta build (through the insider program) on a machines back in January but then had to move on to other efforts, so I never really got back to look at it closely. […]
New approach to power #IoT
One of the great things about Moore’s law that is sometimes overlooked is that even though computing capabilities have expanded at a tremendous rate, the power consumption for those same transistors that are being packed together have gone down at an even faster rate. This announcement from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign of the […]
$9 Linux computer in the wings
The device is called C.H.I.P. and it is part of a Kickstarter campaign to create a Linux-powered computer “built for work, play, and everything in between!” They have already raised $653K of their $50K goal. At the heart of the C.H.I.P. is a 1GHz Allwinner A13 compatible SoC, with a built-in Mali400 GPU that is […]
And not Or
I was in an exchange the other day with some folks talking about their perspective that all companies need to be using cloud computing. I agree, but my view is slightly different. My perspective is that depending on the company’s size, needs and applications they will likely continue to have in house systems. It’s not […]
Moore’s law turns 50
Moore’s law turns 50 on Sunday, after it was first published in the thirty-fifth anniversary issue of Electronics magazine back in 1965. There have been a few stories out this week about Moore’s law turning 50 and how it may not make it to 60. IEEE put out a number of stories based on different perspectives […]
Enterprise architecture in a world of automated change
I posted the other day on the Enterprise CIO blog an entry about the CIO’s role and the self-driving business that got me thinking about the Enterprise architect and the processes (e.g., TOGAF). There seems to be a lack of any real automation thread. Do you see one? This clearly needs to be addressed. One […]
