Cloud
ARM And AMD X86 Server Chips Get Mainstream Lift From Microsoft
If you want real competition among vendors who supply stuff to you, then sometimes you have to make it happen by yourself. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
How AMD’s Naples X86 Server Chip Stacks Up To Intel’s Xeons
Ever so slowly, and not so fast as to give competitor Intel too much information about what it is up to, but just fast enough to build interest in the years of engineering smarts that has gone into its forthcoming “Naples” X86 server processor, AMD is lifting the veil on the product that will bring it back into the datacenter and that will bring direct competition to the Xeon platform that dominates modern computing infrastructure. …
Cloud
Naples Opterons Give AMD A Second Chance In Servers
There are not a lot of second chances in the IT racket. …
Compute
Docker Reaches The Enterprise Milestone
In the server virtualization era, there were a couple of virtual machine formats and hypervisors to match them, and despite the desire for a common VM format, the virtual server stacks got siloed into ESXi, KVM, Xen, and Hyper-V stacks with some spicing of PowerVM, Solaris containers and LDOMs, and VM/ESA partitions sprinkled on. …
Cloud
Server Makers Try To Adapt To A Harsher Climate
So, who was the biggest revenue generator, and showing the largest growth in sales, for servers in the final quarter of 2016? …
Cloud
Bouncing Back To Private Clouds With OpenStack
There is an adage, not quite yet old, suggesting that compute is free but storage is not. …
Cloud
Mixed Signals From Server Land
With a new generation of Xeon processors coming out later this year from Intel and AMD trying to get back in the game with its own X86 server chips – they probably will not be called Opterons – it is not a surprise to us that server makers are having a bit of trouble making their numbers in recent months. …
Compute
Google Spanner Inspires CockroachDB To Outrun It
There is an old joke that in the post-apocalyptic world that comes about because of plague or nuclear war, only two things will be left alive: cockroaches and Keith Richards, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones. …
Compute
Japan Keeps Accelerating With Tsubame 3.0 AI Supercomputer
The Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has been at the forefront of accelerated computing, and well before GPUs came along and made acceleration not only cool but affordable and normal. …
Compute
What Bellwether Cisco Reveals About Datacenter Spending
As the world’s dominant supplier of switches and routers into the datacenter and one of the big providers of servers (with a hope of transforming part of that server businesses into a sizeable hyperconverged storage business), Cisco Systems provides a kind of lens into the glass houses of the world. …