The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated enterprises’ move to the cloud — and with it, adoption of open source software (OSS), much of which is designed specifically for the cloud. OSS means the code is freely available and distributed under an Open Source Initiative or OSI approved license. There are loads of reasons to go open source:…

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Most organizations employ automation with infrastructure as code but still retain control over deployments. Looking forward, we’ll see more of an event-driven approach, where the trigger itself is automated based on an event. This is a significant part of what will make applications adaptive in the future—the ability to react to automatically to events and adapt location, security, and capacity to meet service-level objectives.

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Coming gen-4 Xeon processors will use high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to speed processing, with Intel also announcing Ponte Vecchio GPU validation, Ethernet HPC use, and commercial support for DAOS object storage. Intel announced these moves at the 2021 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC). Trish Damkroger, VP and GM of High Performance Computing at Intel, presented the Sapphire […]

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