During the week of March 23, 2020, Pivotal Web Services will be removing support for TLS 1.1 for SSL-Service instances. Continuing TLS 1.1 support presents a security risk and with support for TLS 1.2 or higher being nearly universal, there is no compelling reason to continue supporting TLS 1.1. Support for TLS 1.1 will be…
This blog was co-authored with Bright Computing Increasingly, engineers and infrastructure administrators are looking for workload agility. But what exactly is workload agility? First, let’s define workload. Workloads are the computing tasks that employees initiate on systems to complete their companies’ missions. Precision Medicine, Semiconductor Design, Digital Pathology, Connected Mobility, Quantitative Research, and Autonomous Driving…
Just a few weeks and so much has changed. Old ways of living, working, meeting, greeting, and communicating are gone for a while. Friendly handshakes and warm hugs are not healthy or socially acceptable at the moment. My colleagues and I are aware that many people are dealing with changes in their work, school, and…
Over the years, as data center complexity has increased to support the volume, variety, velocity and veracity of data in the enterprise, organizations often find it challenging to get a clear understanding of how infrastructure is performing. Visibility into data center performance is important to understand how resources are used and it provides an opportunity…
Co-Author: Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Distinguished Engineer, Office of the CTO, Server and Infrastructure Systems at Dell EMC Over the past several years, there has been a growing interest in the use of accelerators on standard servers to improve workload performance. It started with GPUs to accelerate AI/ML and now includes FPGAs, SMART-NICs on servers and other…
In-memory data stores are widely used for application scalability, and developers have long appreciated their benefits for storing frequently accessed data, whether volatile or persistent. Systems like Redis help decouple databases and backends from incoming traffic, shedding most of the traffic that would had otherwise reached them, and reducing application latency for users. Obviously, managing…
At AWS, we take pride in building state of the art virtualization technologies to simplify the management and access to cloud services such as networks, computing resources or object storage. In a Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), a view is virtualization applied to tables : it is a virtual table representing the result of a…
Few would argue that organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on data to fuel innovation, drive new revenue streams and provide deep insight into the needs of their customers, partners and stakeholders. Yet despite the increased investments to safeguard data and keep mission-critical application services highly available across multi-cloud environments, we are witnessing a steady uptick…
This time last year, there were a slew of predictions around the launch of 5G and its potential impact on the world. I personally forecast that Dell Technologies would help define the underlying infrastructure technology, serving as the rocket fuel to power the “connected everything” revolution. One year later, have the predictions come to pass?…
Who’s driving the cloud strategy in your organization? Recently we had a team of cloud experts join Dell technologists including myself (@NickBrackney) for our #CloudTweetChat. Having a chance to interact with and learn from so many knowledgeable folks with varied backgrounds and approaches is critical for our team as well as our customers. What makes…