June 8, 2017 FPGAs and the New Era of Cloud-based ‘Hardware Microservices’ by Mary Branscombe In his keynote at the Microsoft Build conference earlier this year, the head of Microsoft’s AI and Research Harry Shum hinted that at some point the Microsoft Azure cloud service will give developers access to field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Azure Chief Technology Officer Mark Russinovich also talked about Azure exposing “[FPGAs] as a service […] Read More
June 6, 2017 People On The Move: Board of Directors Brian Marlier Member at Ryft Board of Directors EDUCATION: University of Illinois at Urbana (Champaign, IL) Malier will leverage his enterprise sales experience and guidance to help the company expand its market to existing customers, and through global software product companies and cloud providers. Read More
June 5, 2017 Headcount: The Latest in Hirings, Firings And Retirings — June 5, 2017 Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes. If you’d like SDxCentral to report on your company’s movers and shakers, or if you’ve got a tip about layoffs and restructuring, please send the information to Wyatt Carlson (wcarlson@sdxcentral.com). Intel Gets a New Data Center Leader Navin Shanoy is the newly appointed […] Read More
May 31, 2017 Cisco Global Sales Executive Brian Marlier Joins Ryft Board of Directors ROCKVILLE, Md. — Ryft, the technology leader in the acceleration of business analytics powered by cloud, hybrid and on-premises platforms, announced the appointment of Brian Marlier, Senior Vice President of Global Architectures and Enterprise Transformation for Cisco Systems, to Ryft’s Board of Directors. Mr. Marlier leads the Cisco team responsible for selling complex technical transformations to […] Read More
April 19, 2017 Ryft Delivers High-performance Data Analytics Using Amazon EC2 F1 Instances Combining the powerful Amazon EC2 F1 instance with easy-to-use Ryft technology gives organizations the ability to quickly and easily extract critical insights from all their data ROCKVILLE, Md. — Ryft Systems Inc., a leader in powering faster, smarter business analytics applications, announced today that Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers running open source Elasticsearch on AWS […] Read More
November 7, 2017 Ryft Adds Former Cisco Executive Patrick McCarthy as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing To address explosive growth and the need for fast, simple and proven heterogeneous computing in data analytics, Ryft hires former Senior Operations Director for New Business Models and Revenue Streams at Cisco Rockville, MD — Nov. 9, 2017 — Ryft, the provider of heterogenous compute technology for accelerating business analytics powered by cloud, hybrid and on-premises platforms, […] Read More
September 12, 2017 Ryft Delivers More Sophisticated, Faster Cloud-based Data Search and Analysis Using the Amazon EC2 F1 Instance With smarter data search and analysis capabilities, Ryft delivers Amazon Web Services’ customers the ability to gain real-time, actionable insights from all their data ROCKVILLE, Md. — September 13, 2017 — Ryft, the technology leader in the acceleration of business analytics powered by cloud, hybrid and on-premises platforms, announced it is now providing Amazon Web […] Read More
May 31, 2017 Cisco Global Sales Executive Brian Marlier Joins Ryft Board of Directors ROCKVILLE, Md. — Ryft, the technology leader in the acceleration of business analytics powered by cloud, hybrid and on-premises platforms, announced the appointment of Brian Marlier, Senior Vice President of Global Architectures and Enterprise Transformation for Cisco Systems, to Ryft’s Board of Directors. Mr. Marlier leads the Cisco team responsible for selling complex technical transformations to […] Read More
April 19, 2017 Ryft Delivers High-performance Data Analytics Using Amazon EC2 F1 Instances Combining the powerful Amazon EC2 F1 instance with easy-to-use Ryft technology gives organizations the ability to quickly and easily extract critical insights from all their data ROCKVILLE, Md. — Ryft Systems Inc., a leader in powering faster, smarter business analytics applications, announced today that Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers running open source Elasticsearch on AWS […] Read More
December 6, 2016 Ryft Delivers Fast, Simple Data Discovery on Amazon Web Services’ New F1 FPGA-based Heterogeneous Cloud Instance As the world leader in heterogeneous compute solutions, Ryft partnered with AWS to deliver to F1 users powerful yet easy-to-use data discovery with no data transformation or indexing latency Ryft, the world’s leader in fast, simple heterogeneous compute solutions, announced it has partnered with Amazon Web Services to deliver the speed and simplicity of the […] Read More
November 30, 2017 Amazon AWS And Xilinx: A Progress Report by Karl Freund Amazon.com has built a formidable position in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2), and it is hoping to extend that position to applications that benefit from acceleration using GPUs and FPGAs. FPGAs are relatively difficult to program, and the cloud leader is laying the foundation to simplify […] Read More
September 21, 2017 How Ryft Uses AWS’s Reprogrammable Chips for Big Data Analytics in Hybrid Cloud by Mary Branscombe New-generation FPGAs can be reconfigured on the fly, enabling accelerated search across on-premises data centers and cloud. Field Programmable Gate Arrays, or FPGAs, have some big advantages. You get the data parallelism of GPUs but without the high power bill; you get ASIC-like compute efficiency but with more flexibility, because you can […] Read More
September 19, 2017 Meet accelerated computing needs with FPGA, GPU instances by George Lawton AWS’ FPGA and Elastic GPU instances both appeal to customers with high-performance computing workloads, but admins should note these important differences between the two. AWS ran the numbers and decided to come out with several new accelerated computing instance types that promise better performance for compute-intensive applications. Elastic graphics processing units (GPUs) optimize performance […] Read More
September 13, 2017 Ryft Puts FPGA-Boosted Analytics on AWS Marketplace By Gladys Rama 09/13/2017 Data analytics firm Ryft on Wednesday made its cloud-based and FPGA-optimized analytics platform available on the AWS Marketplace. The Ryft Cloud accelerated analytics solution uses field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to perform data queries at significantly faster rates than traditional CPU-based analytics platforms — up to 91 times faster, according to […] Read More
September 13, 2017 Ryft deploys cloud-based search and analysis on Amazon’s FPGA-accelerated AWS EC2 F1 instance by sleibso 09-13-2017 11:52 AM Ryft has announced that it now offers its Ryft Cloud cloud-based search and analysis tools on Amazon’s FPGA-accelerated AWS EC2 F1 instance through Amazon’s AWS Marketplace. When Xcell Daily last covered Ryft, the company had introduced the Ryft ONE, an FPGA-accelerated data analytics platform. (See “FPGA-based Ryft ONE search accelerator delivers 100x performance advantage […] Read More