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Intel’s master plan involves replacing local storage with Optane and putting “bulk storage” SSDs into the cloud. Intel plans to hit the hard drive harder with its one-two punch of Optane and NAND SSDs this year: The goal is to knock local storage entirely out of the PC, and into the cloud.
Intel certainly has plans for its SSD business, including adding 1TB and even 2TB capacity points to products like its 760P SSD. But so does everyone else. The more interesting question is what Intel will do with its nearly unique Optane technology, and how it will convince users that it’s worth the investment.
Optane occupies a unique niche between a hard drive and DRAM, and originally served as a caching technology for hard drives or SSDs. The first Optane memory gave way to larger, bootable Optane-powered SSDs like the 900P SSD, at 280GB and 480GB capacities. Quick SSDs have become a preferred upgrade for notebook PCs, but Intel has yet to make Optane mainstream.
Intel hopes to begin changing that with the launch of products like the Optane 800P, a rather small 58GB/118GB M.2 Optane SSD announced at CES. It will begin shipping this month, according to Rob Crooke, who oversees nonvolatile storage products for Intel. In the future, Intel could even combine Optane memory and SSD. This year, Intel will release Optane within a DRAM form factor for the data center, Crooke said, a signal that Optane as a memory technology will eventually make its way into client PCs. Continue reading
Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a popular way to deliver complicated and often expensive software solutions to a wider audience.
In the traditional software world, companies did most of their business via “perpetual” software licenses. This meant that customers purchased the software and the in-house hardware necessary to use the computer program. Although the customer owned the software in perpetuity, it could get very expensive and complex to deploy and maintain. In some cases, the costs and complexity of this system excluded small and mid-sized businesses from using certain software.
With SaaS, instead of purchasing the software outright, companies can effectively “rent” the software on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis—hence the term software as a service. The software is usually deployed on servers outside the organization and is accessed over the internet. The customer no longer has to worry about maintenance or hardware costs. Continue reading
Cloud computing trend remains a hot topic in the business world, and the trend is likely to continue according to Cisco’s latest Global Cloud index forecast, which covers 2013 through 2018. Cloud data centers, private cloud solutions,
infrastructure as a service, as well as a platform as a service are all hot, thanks to the numerous advantages of cloud computing.
For this article, the purpose is to explore some of the major trends in cloud computing that you should prepare to adapt to your business in 2018.
The world has undergone a rapid transformation in the last few years as far as communication and business transactions are concerned. Today, people largely use mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to access the internet, inquire about businesses, purchase items, and much more. That’s when IoT came into play, rising above the use of mobile devices to accomplish more tasks.
Gartner Research predicts the number of IoT devices in the world to be at least 20 billion by 2020. You know what that means? Continue reading
Google Cloud Spanner is a distributed rel
ational database service that runs on Google Cloud. It is designed to support global online transaction processing deployments, SQL semantics, highly available horizontal scaling and transactional consistency.
Interest in Google Cloud Spanner centres on the cloud database’s ability to provide both availability and consistency. These traits are usually considered at odds with each other, with data designers typically making tradeoffs to emphasize either availability or consistency. The trade-off has been described most vividly in the CAP Theorem, which underpinned a general move to NoSQL databases for availability and scalability in web and cloud systems. In pursuing both system availability and data consistency, Google Cloud Spanner combines SQL and NoSQL traits. Continue reading
Organizations migrating applications to public IaaS providers must continue to deliver an outstanding end-user experience while 
maintaining security, visibility, and control. F5 application and security services can achieve these goals while providing agility, consistent… Continue reading
Cloud computing solutions are quickly catching on with businesses across globe as a cost-effective way to offload the burden of buying and maintaining information and communication technology (ICT).
Cloud computing lets your… Continue reading