Keynote speakers at Pure//Accelerate 2017 in San Francisco, California, waxed on topics far beyond the humble storage array — namely artificial intelligence and edge computing — claiming advanced storage can bring them out of techies’ dreams and into enterprise applications.  “The confluence of massive sensor deployments and the incredible power of GPU-enabled deep learning is truly ...

Can government agencies use cloud technology to spiff up service applications and speedily cut bureaucratic red tape (without accidentally hitting the big red button in their haste)? “You’ve got, obviously, this treasure trove of an asset in public data that can be used to improve any number of services; at the same time, you’ve got ...

The term “hybrid cloud” may bring to mind a single entity, crossbred but whole — the infrastructure equivalent to a liger. Yet the reality of hybrid cloud is closer to a large, diverse zoo, according to William Fellows (pictured, right), founder and vice president of research at The 451 Group LLC. “When they say ‘hybrid cloud,’ it ...

Last February, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. plunked down $650 million in cash to buy hyperconverged server and storage systems provider SimpliVity Corp. How did SimpliVity command that price from the hardware legacy with its own portfolio of servers and storage? SimpliVity is not like other hyperconverged infrastructure for sale today, according to Paul Miller (pictured, left), vice president of software defined ...

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. sold its software and spun out its services, many saw a bare-bones infrastructure company remaining without many solutions to bring to market. “People say, ‘Oh, look at HP; you know, you guys are getting smaller.’ As far as we can tell, we are getting a lot bigger,” said Dennis Deane (pictured, right), ...

Wikileaks’ Vault 7 report revealed a host of malware types that can penetrate devices’ firmware, rendering many traditional recovery methods ineffective. “We saw evidence that firmware issues and exploits are here to stay,” said Jason Shropshire (pictured, left), senior vice president and chief technology officer at InfusionPoints LLC, a security testing and solutions company. Joining Shropshire ...

With practically limitless data and applications demanding microseconds-fast insight, it’s poor timing that Moore’s law of perpetually increasing processor power is now AWOL. “How do we get back exponential scaling on supply to meet this unending, exponential demand?” asked Kirk Bresniker (pictured, right), fellow, vice president and chief architect at HP Labs, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise ...

Big data is shifting the focus of high-performance computing toward machine learning and artificial intelligence, according to Bill Mannel (pictured, left), vice president and general manager, High-Performance Computing and artificial intelligence, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. “Typically, we built equations which then generated data; now we’re actually doing the reverse, which is, we take the data and ...

Hardware legacy Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is operating in interesting times, struggling to regain its losses to fresh cloud service providers. “Certainly the competition’s been slamming them; the press has not been kind to them; people think they’re irrelevant; Wall Street just slammed them,” John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, left) told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, right), as ...

In an effort to fill its cloud software gap, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has opted to help its channel partners in the cloud help each other with the Cloud 28 consortium. “One single partner can find, with another one, the way to achieve his goal instead of thinking, ‘I will do it myself, and I ...