The 5G Requirement for Data Storage
This year we have seen some of communications service providers (CSP) like ATT, China Mobile, and Telefonica begin the rollout of 5G services. 5G stands for fifth-generation cellular wireless. 5G is...
View ArticleLessons from Apollo 11
July 20th, 1969, marks the 50thanniversary of the lunar landing of Apollo 11. This brings back a lot of great memories for me as I was on the IBM team that was supporting the IT requirements for North...
View ArticleReduce Shrinkage with Live Face Matching
This week I had a chance to meet with Chris Henderson a Biometric specialist who recently joined Hitachi Vantara in Australia. Chris was no stranger since we had worked together in the past and he has...
View ArticleThe AI Revolution Requires Accelerated Compute
We are in the midst of a new technology revolution that is described as the AI revolution. It is different from all previous revolutions like the industrial revolution or the information revolution in...
View ArticleInterrogare And demandi Realize DataOps Advantage with Hitachi Vantara
Interrogare, a 20 year oldmarket research company in Germany, conducts more than two million interviews each year across a range of industry sectors and focus areas, including product pricing, employee...
View ArticleResearch in Regenerative Medicine
This week I am at the Hitachi Central research Lab in Kokubunji, Japan, to attend Hitachi’s annual Kenpatsu. This is an event where the Central research lab provides an update to the global Hitachi...
View ArticleMainframe FICON Connection for Analytics
On the occasion of the 50thanniversary of the Apollo lunar landing, I posted a blog about my experience with IBM mainframes in support of North American Rockwell’s work on the Lunar command and service...
View ArticleThoughts on HPE’s Acquisition of MapR
In June I posted a blog commenting on the cloud management company MapRclosing its headquarters and laying off 122 workers. At that time Cloudera, another cloud big data management company, announced...
View ArticleTCP Is A Network Protocol for NVMe
Last year in August,I posted a blog about NVMe, an open standards protocol for digital communications between servers and non-volatile memory storage. It replaces the SCSI protocol that was designed...
View ArticleOvercoming CPU Chokepoints For NVMe
Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting published a recent article on the CPU chokepoint in servers and controllers for NVMe storage. This supports blogs that I have recently posted on CPU...
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