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Easy-button for analytics needed before self-driving cars’ data tsunami hits, says Intel
The average person generates almost 1.5 gigabytes of data per day, already glutting data centers. What miracle is going to make this, plus the daily 4,000 gigabytes of data self-driving cars will produce, manageable (let alone profitable)? “Everyone is not going to be a data scientist, and everyone’s not going to be able to afford one ...
Does memory have the mojo to crunch data that’s choking data centers?
Enterprises choking on inbound data that’s too expensive to store and too valuable to throw out need relief. But they must look outside the box for it, according to Steve Pawlowski (pictured, right), vice president of advanced computing solutions at Micron Technology Inc. During the Micron Summit in New York, Pawlowski and Tom Eby (pictured, left), vice president of ...
Act locally, speed globally: Can Micron’s new array push data to the edge?
NVMe over Fabric (NVMeF) is an advanced storage technology that, unfortunately, works optimally in small doses. Or it did until now, according to James Meeker (pictured, left), director of enterprise solutions at Micron Technology Inc., and Eric Endebrock (pictured, right), Micron’s vice president of storage marketing. Meeker and Endebrock discussed NVMeF and the future of storage with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) ...
How Micron tested NVMe over Fabric in-house
In a time when companies are packaging others’ open-source code into nebulous services, it’s refreshing (or nostalgic) to see a company start from scratch with a product it test drove and perfected itself. Micron Technology Inc. is, first and foremost, a manufacturing company, committed to making such products, mainly semiconductors, according to Trevor Schulze (pictured, right), chief information ...
Life imitates tech: Red Hat awards women’s open-source social and education efforts
Open source is more than technology. It’s a mentality and a set of principles that may, in fact, be applied to realms outside of technology. Open-source technology and philosophy together may be a potent combo for attacking real-world issues, as this year’s Red Hat’s Women in Open Source Award winners suggest. “It’s a way of doing ...
How does Red Hat plan to double its revenue to $5 billion in five years?
In the words of Red Hat Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Whitehurst, “Selling free is hard,” but the company’s open-source packages are selling indeed. Last year, Red Hat raked in $2.4 billion in revenue, and to top that off, Whitehurst publicly stated a goal of $5 billion within five years. “Red Hat seems ...
AWS-Red Hat deal “something we’ll be talking about all year,” says analyst
The big news out of this week’s Red Hat Summit is Amazon.com Inc,’s agreement to make its thousands of services available in Red Hat Inc.’s container application platform OpenShift. With the ink on the contract barely dry, Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, discussed ...
Can open-source partnerships breathe fresh life into proprietary old guard?
Fusing the distant past into the present and future, speakers from telecom companies Sprint Corp. and Ericsson — both founded in the 1800s — spoke onstage during a keynote at Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with infrastructure legacy brands Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP and Dell-EMC, they revealed how they’ll continue to innovate with ...
Open secret: CEO plays up the human factor in Red Hat’s open-source growth
Open-source solution providers emulating Red Hat Inc.’s success might take this tip from the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Whitehurst (pictured): Technology does not make open source; humans do. “We don’t select technology; we select communities. And I think that’s a really important subtlety,” Whitehurst said today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, ...
Red Hat is eating software, but could heft slow them down, analysts ask
With all of the open-source companies that would love to pocket Red Hat Inc.’s profits, none of them have matched its quarter-after-quarter growth nor its $15 billion market capitalization. At Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, asked, ...