Connect
The Substrate To Bind Datacenter Switching And Routing
The appliance model, where the hardware and software were tightly controlled by a single vendor, held sway in the datacenter for decades. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
HPC
Understanding And Balancing HPC On-Premises And In The Cloud
HPC shops are used to doing math – it is what they do for a living, after all – and as they evaluate their hybrid computing and storage strategies, they will be doing a lot of math. …
Compute
The Potential Of Red Hat Plus Power Is Larger Than Exascale
Red Hat is coming onto IBM’s books at just the right time, and to be honest, it might have been better for Big Blue if the deal to acquire the world’s largest supplier of support and packaging services for open source software had closed maybe one or two quarters ago. …
Store
Is Amazon’s Database Strategy A Glimpse Into The Future?
IBM, through the work of Edgar Codd, invented the ideas behind the relational database back in 1970. …
Connect
PCI-Express Steps Up To The Bandwidth Challenge
Moore’s Law might be slowing down CPU compute capacity increases in recent years, but the innovation has been coming at a steady drumbeat for the interconnects used inside servers and between nodes in distributed computing systems. …
Control
Automation And Policy Drive Optimal Hybrid Cloud Spending
Hybrid cloud is gaining traction as organizations seek to realize the flexibility and scale of a joint public and on-premises model of IT provisioning while also changing the way their compute and storage infrastructure is funded, transferring costs from a capital expense (capex) to an operating expense (opex). …
Store
Staying Afloat In The Coming Data Deluge
Back in 2016, we wrote a column about the rise of data-centric computing. …
Connect
Point To Point In The Datacenter With Andy Bechtolsheim
Most people in the IT community tend to their fields, making their living in their patches, but there are some who change the landscape, and still fewer who do it again and again. …
Connect
Switch Silicon To Relieve Choke Points In Servers
Say what you will about the ruthless dominance of hyperscale companies, but they are managing to propel information technology at a rate, and in ways, that the enterprise and high performance computing markets can only dream of. …
Cloud
Cloudy Supercomputers Join the HPC Petascale Club
Living in the future, as we do now, you no longer have to expend huge amounts of capital to build a petaflops-scale supercomputer. …