How will Apple’s stock price react when the next iPhone is announced? Or when the next Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel are unveiled? What about if there’s a software update that creates issues with the iPhone or the Apple Watch? Until someone invents a crystal ball, high-performance computing (HPC) is the only proven way to…

There’s Big Data, and then there’s really Big Data. Case in point: oil and gas exploration, where 3D seismic images and reservoir models require 1 petabyte of storage and more than 18 petaflops of compute power to analyze. With an estimated 5.5 million Internet of Things devices coming online daily, Big Data is becoming the…

Many businesses know some portions of their data are extremely valuable, while others have no value. The problem is, they often don’t know how to identify, much less take advantage of, data that can make a difference. The Internet of Things exacerbates this dilemma by giving organizations even more data to store and sift through….

Work smarter, not harder. When it comes to managing and extracting insights from Big Data, that’s easier said than done. Volume is a major part of the challenge: Businesses have to mine terabytes to find the nuggets of actionable insights. New sources of data, especially the Internet of Things (IoT), add to that challenge considerably….

Most people I talk to don’t realize that there actually is an official definition of cloud computing or “the cloud.” The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a definition that runs to several hundred words and essentially defines cloud as, “compute resources, delivered over a network.”