The $38 billion business that became Databricks Inc. started with the swipe of a credit card. The card belonged to Ali Ghodsi, Databricks’ chief executive officer, and he and his co-founders believed in 2013 that the quick and easy purchase of cloud storage on Amazon Web Services Inc. would pave the way toward faster customer adoption ...

When what was then called Red Hat Linux first appeared in 1994, Gunnar Hellekson was working as a student systems administrator for Drew University. Nearly three decades later, Hellekson (pictured) is general manager of the Enterprise Linux Business unit at Red Hat Inc. and has become a key voice within the open-source community. The past ...

There were several announcements from Dell Technologies Inc. in November designed to strengthen security for enterprises concerned about protecting critical data in a multicloud environment. The announcements involved a new PowerProtect appliance, enhancements for Dell’s APEX storage services, and an agreement to use Google Cloud for cyber recovery. Surrounding the news was a clear message from ...

The safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile increasingly depends on high-performance computing. This reality was highlighted last year when the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration awarded a subcontract to Dell Technologies Inc. for additional supercomputing systems. The contract, CTS-2, provided computing capacity for the Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence ...

One of the messages to emerge from the Supercomputing 2022 conference in Dallas this week is that quantum computing is on the move. Dell Technologies Inc. announced a new Quantum Computing Solution in partnership with IonQ Inc., designed to support complex workloads, such as machine learning, natural language processing and chemistry simulation. The news provides ...

At the Supercomputing conference in Dallas this week, Dell Technologies Inc. teamed up with Intel to launch a new PowerEdge server that employs fully direct liquid cooling for energy expense reduction by up to 3.1 times. Based on comments from a Dell executive in an exclusive interview at the event with SiliconANGLE, there will be ...

NASA routinely sends rockets into space, but it is also heavily invested in the business of collecting data. Scientists collect observations from satellites, the International Space Station, balloons, ships, airplanes and ground stations to better understand Earth systems and predict major climate changes in advance. It’s an ambitious undertaking, one that requires a blend of ...

When Broadcom Ltd. unveiled its Tomahawk 5 switch processor in August, it delivered the latest salvo in what is shaping up to be an interesting competition among chipmaking giants for hyperscale business. Tomahawk 5 leverages Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet, or RoCE, on open standard designed to offload data movement and availability of ...

The data protection market received a jolt of energy with today’s announcement from Dell Technologies Inc. of several new services as part of its security portfolio. The announcements involved a new PowerProtect appliance, enhancements for Dell’s APEX storage services, and an agreement to use Google Cloud for cyber recovery. “We have 1,700 customers protecting 14 ...

Dell Technologies Inc. broke new ground earlier this week with the unveiling of its PowerEdge XE9680 system at the Supercomputing Conference in Dallas. It was announced as the first system with eight Nvidia GPUs interconnected with Nvidia’s NVLink, designed to meet growing customer demand for large-scale artificial intelligence and high-performance computing initiatives. “What we’re hearing ...