Tag: Kubernetes
Google Kubernetes Engine Now Supports Trillion-Parameter AI Models
The exponential growth in large language model (LLM) size and the resulting need for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure is reshaping the AI landscape. Some of the newer GenAI models have grown to well over a Read more…
The White Label Powering IBM’s New Cloud Logs Solution
IBM recently launched Cloud Logs, a new solution designed to allow customers to efficiently collect and analyze log data at any scale. IBM is no slouch in the product development department, but when it came to observabi Read more…
Explosion of Observability Data from Cloud Reaches Tipping Point, Dynatrace Says
Companies have reached a tipping point where the volume and complexity of observability data (logs, metrics, traces, and events) created by cloud-native IT systems exceeds the value that companies are able to extract fro Read more…
CAST AI Report Shows Major Underuse of Cloud Resources in Kubernetes
Kubernetes, an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, has had widespread adoption amongst organizations around the globe. However, accurately forecasting the resources needed by Ku Read more…
How Acceldata Helped T-Mobile’s Data Modernization Strategy
When T-Mobile started migrating some of its data estate from an on-prem Hadoop system to cloud-based data platforms, it found the move liberating. But as it settled into a hybrid-cloud world, T-Mobile realized costs were Read more…
TigerGraph Bolsters DB for Enterprise Graph Workloads
When Mingxi Wu took over as CEO of TigerGraph five months ago, he promised that the company would return to focusing on the development of product features demanded by the biggest customers. That focus appears to be play Read more…
HPE Brings Analytics Together on its Data Fabric
HPE today unveiled a major update to its Ezmeral software platform, which previously included over a dozen components but now includes just two, including the Ezmeral Data Fabric that provides edge-to-cloud data manageme Read more…
Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction
Today’s cloud infrastructure is fantastic. The richness and power of our cloud-native ecosystem around Kubernetes are easy to forget. It’s hard to remember the world before containers and Kubernetes. How hard it was Read more…
The High Costs of Going Cloud-Native
Whether or not you’re running workloads in the public cloud, the lure to develop in the modern cloud-native fashion is undeniably strong. After all, the benefits of running containerized microservices in a serverless f Read more…
Kubernetes Goes Big and Small at KubeCon
The Kubernetes community descended upon Detroit, Michigan, this week for the annual KubeCon conference, which is being held in conjunction with the CloudNativeCon. Some of the vendors making news at the show included AWS Read more…
Matillion Debuts Data Integration Service on K8S
Matillion yesterday debuted the Data Productivity Cloud, a new service that brings all of the vendor’s ETL and data integration tools together in a single software as a service (SaaS) offering running atop Kubernetes i Read more…
Anyscale Branches Beyond ML Training with Ray 2.0 and AI Runtime
Anyscale today came one step closer to fulfilling its goal of enabling any Python application to scale to an arbitrarily large degree with the launch of Ray 2.0 and the Ray AI Runtime (Ray AIR). The company also announce Read more…
A Dozen Questions for Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia is a very busy man. When he’s not helping to shape the future of Databricks as its CTO, he is helping to shape the future of computer science as an assistant professor at Stanford University. He also fi Read more…
NetApp Spots a Data Platform Opportunity in the Cloud
The market for spot instances in the cloud is, well, spotty. Some days you can count on a 90% discount by buying excess capacity from the public clouds, and other times you can't. NetApp has turned that cloud unpredictab Read more…
In Search of the Data Dream Team
When it comes to succeeding at big data, the people you put in place are just as important--if not more important--than the products and technologies you use. One of the folks exploring the intersection of people and dat Read more…
StarTree Keeps Real-Time Analytics Fresh with New Options for Pinot
Since it was created at LinkedIn in 2015, interest in Apache Pinot--the distributed storage and analytics engine for real-time analytics--has steadily grown. But over the past year, the number of downloads and active par Read more…
Run:ai Seeks to Grow AI Virtualization with $75M Round
Run:ai, a provider of an AI virtualization layer that helps optimize GPU instances, yesterday announced a Series C round worth $75 million. The funding figures to help the fast-growing company expand its sales reach and Read more…
Knative Now an Incubating Project at CNCF
If you’re interested in ways to ease the deployment of serverless, event-driven applications atop Kubernetes in your organization, then you’ll be pleased to hear that Knative--an open source platform designed to simp Read more…
MinIO, Now Worth $1B, Still Hungry for Data
MinIO was founded in 2014 near the peak of the Hadoop craze with what seemed like an outlandish idea: Build an open source object storage system based on Amazon S3. Eight years later, with a $1 billion valuation followin Read more…
Companies Drowning in Observability Data, Dynatrace Says
If you’re finding it difficult to manage a sprawling infrastructure spanning multiple clouds running constantly changing containerized workloads, you’re not alone. According to a study released this week by Dynatrace Read more…