Cloud
Red Hat Flexes CoreOS Muscle In OpenShift Kubernetes Platform
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. …
Articles by Jeffrey Burt
Compute
Trading Off Security And Performance Thanks To Spectre And Meltdown
The revelations by Google’s Project Zero team earlier this year of the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities in most of processors that have powered servers and PCs for the past couple of decades shook the industry as Intel and other chip makers scrambled to mitigate the risk of the threats in the short term and then implement plans to incorporate the mitigation techniques into future versions of the silicon. …
Compute
System And Chip Architecture Shifts To A Heterogeneous World
Sometimes, if you stick around long enough in business, the market will come to you. …
Cloud
Dell EMC Leans On VMware In The Cloud
It is intuitively obvious that most enterprises are want to embrace the public cloud, and they do not want to have a sole source of their cloudy compute, storage, and networking. …
Compute
Getting To The Root Of Security With Trusted Silicon
The increasingly distributed nature of computing and the rapid growth in the number of the small connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) are combining with trends like the rise of silicon-level vulnerabilities highlighted by Spectre, Meltdown, and more recent variants to create an expanding and fluid security landscape that’s difficult for enterprises to navigate. …
Compute
Connect
Negotiating The NVM-Express Land Rush
Newisys has been on the NVM-Express for several years, putting the high-profile interface in a growing number of server and storage platforms, including servers with NVM-Express directly attacked to the CPU, a system running NVM-Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and a storage expansion flash array (JBOF, or Just a Bunch of Flash). …
Compute
Intel Pries Open Servers To Squeeze In Persistent Memory
The massive amounts of data being generated in enterprise datacenters and out there on the public clouds and the need to quickly access and analyze that data is putting a strain on traditional storage and memory architectures that typically inhabit these environments. …
Compute
Intel Looks Down The Server Chip Road To Ice Lake
Intel continues to pull in massive amounts of money through its portfolio of datacenter wares and to dominate the market for processors in the glass house. …
Compute
TACC Tapped for NSF’s Next Supercomputer
The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) will house the latest leadership-class supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation, a project that stands as a tribute to the NSF’s continued efforts to push supercomputing projects and the latest indication of the ground the organization is losing to the Department of Energy (DOE) in this effort. …