There is a new tick–tock at work at chip maker Intel, and one that overlays the normal metronome cadence of manufacturing process shrinks and architecture advancement. This one is the tick of shipping products to hyperscalers, cloud builders, and a select few HPC centers and the other is the tock …
The company was named International Business Machines for a reason, and over the several decades that IBM concentrated on peddling managed services and consulting services to the largest corporations on Earth, with its Global Services behemoth representing two-thirds of its revenues, the company lost touch with, and took for granted, …
For nearly two years the world has been coping with the coronavirus pandemic, and it has had obvious and consequential effects on the market for hardware, software, and services in the datacenter. Some of this has been good for business, some of it bad, and a lot of it has …
If you thought it took a lot of compute and storage to build Facebook’s social network, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The immersive and AI-enhanced experiences of the Metaverse will make all of the technology that Facebook has created to date, and largely open sourced through the Open Compute Project, …
One of the oldest adages in the systems business is that customers don’t buy processors, but rather they buy roadmaps. The trick with being a server compute engine supplier – whether you are talking about CPUs, GPUs, or any other kind of device – is to reveal enough of the …
The gradual trend of IT organizations spending more on dedicated or shared cloud infrastructure than they do on non-cloudy gear continues its inevitable, glacial transformation. But just because cloud is on the rise does not mean that spending on compute and storage to underpin traditional non-cloud systems is always on …
In its short lifetime, Vast Data has been able to put its stamp on a fast-changing data storage market. The company was founded in 2016 by Renek Hallak, chief executive officer, Shachar Fienblit, vice president of research and development, Jeff Denworth, vice president of products, who collectively saw an opportunity …
Featuring highlights, analysis, and stories from the week directly from us to your inbox with nothing in between.
Subscribe now
PAID FEATURE In October 2021, in an incident lasting more than six hours, Facebook disappeared from the Internet. This wasn’t a temporary .com outage on the company’s primary domain but a complete shutdown of its public existence that also dragged into the darkness WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. What had happened? The popular assumption …
Most of the large companies and institutions we cover here at The Next Platform have already been in the AI/ML trenches, particularly the hyperscale web and media companies (where much of this work began) and in high performance computing. However, for the broader enterprise world, the transition is still catching …
Not every manufacturing node comes out perfectly and not every one comes out on time, but in the past decade and a half, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest and most technologically advanced etcher of chips in the world, has done far better than any of its few remaining …
Paid Feature There are many ways to scale up and scale out systems, and that is a problem as much as it is a solution for distributed systems architects. Once they are powered on, few distributed systems are rarely asked to do one thing and one thing only – and …
The big three clouds – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – are all addressing the same issues of scale, performance, and economics and are also trying to attract the same workloads from the same pool of enterprise, government, and academic customers. So it is not really a …
VMware made its mark in the fast-growing Kubernetes space in 2019 with the launch of its Tanzu portfolio, expanding its reach beyond virtual machines and into the world of containers. In the two-plus years since, the vendor has been building out Tanzu as part of its larger cloud-native strategy. Last …
Chip maker Nvidia might be best known for its graphics and datacenter compute engines, but the company has made no secret of its aspirations to be a bigger player across the datacenter. And not just in hardware, but in software, too. To that end, Nvidia has acquired Bright Computing, for …
LG Electronics plans to explore quantum applications with IBM in the coming years with emphasis on areas as diverse as AI, IoT, robotics, and analytics on the table for potential quantum speedups. The South Korean electronics giant will be joining IBM’s Quantum Network, which already includes a number of other …
Around the world, the number and size of datacenters are both growing at a fast pace, and the devices housed in them are consuming more and more power as well to deliver ever-increasing performance. And as a consequence, datacenters are using more and more of the planet’s energy to do …
All Content Copyright The Next Platform
