Mainframes are crucial computer systems enterprises use to process data and run critical applications at an immense scale. Mainframe modernization has become a necessity as these machines become more crucial for organizations to respond quickly to real-time business opportunities. “I think the big thing is that modernization for mainframes is different for every customer based on their ...

Just as cloud and digital transformation serve private sector interests, they also enable public sector capabilities. One example is the United States Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency, or ECMA, which has entered into a joint project with Accenture Federal Services to create a blueprint for agency-wide hybrid cloud adoption. “When you think of the partnership between ...

Given current economic uncertainties, companies are embracing a data-driven culture and building out infrastructures to harness trusted data in an expedient and scalable manner. The latest in that growing list is Bridgestone Americas Inc., which has leaned on the expertise of Accenture PLC and the Amazon Web Services Inc. platform to create its Central Data Platform. ...

While Dell Technologies Inc. doesn’t host a public cloud in the traditional sense, the company has found a workaround to contribute multicloud services to end users in the form of a managed service. “It’s infrastructure, platform and solutions as a service,” said Satish Iyer (pictured), vice president and general manager of emerging services (cloud, data and ...

Relating mostly to programs that can be executed with minimal human interaction, batch processing is commonly seen as an important feature of high-performance computing. To address this need, Amazon Web Services Inc. recently announced that it integrated AWS Batch and Amazon EKS services with one another to help companies more easily run batch workloads in the cloud. ...

Artificial intelligence will govern the next wave of computing, allowing computers and machines to make thought-out decisions and perform more intricate tasks. Dell Technologies Inc. is working to bring more anthropomorphic qualities to everyday human-AI interactions — in time for the projected increase in AI usage. “What’s even more interesting is that from a business perspective, the ...

Microchip partnerships are a strategic focal point for hardware-focused, high-performance computing companies, such as Dell Technologies Inc. The company announced the results of its evolving collaboration with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to drive its PowerEdge products. “[The partnership] goes back to the advent of the EPYC architecture,” said Brian Payne (pictured), vice president of product management for ...

Many industry watchers have questioned modern high-performance computing hardware and its ability to innovate in congruence with mainstream technologies, such as the cloud and artificial intelligence. Dell Technologies Inc. is answering back with a slew of new servers to power today’s AI-intensive enterprise workloads. “We have now developed and designed new purpose-built hardware servers for a ...

High-performance computing has filled a need for rapid data processing and calculations at scale, opening up the enterprise user base to innovate at breakneck speeds. But as cutting-edge tech, such as the cloud, work to undercut supercomputing, especially in cost, what response does the HPC industry have to make a case for its sustained relevance? The ...

This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathering was focused on building more robust and inclusive communities around the cutting-edge ideas and projects currently bubbling out of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Notably, there were announcements outlining some of these breakthrough ideas as well — an example of which is WebAssembly (Wasm), a new cloud-native instruction format for ...