Compute
The New IBM Glass Is Almost Half Full
It takes an incredible amount of resilience for any company to make it decades, much less more than a century, in any industry. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Enterprise
HPE Gets Serious About Hyperconverged Storage With SimpliVity Buy
Rumors have been running around for months that Hewlett Packard Enterprise was shopping around for a way to be a bigger player in the hyperconverged storage arena, and the recent scuttlebutt was that HPE was considering paying close to $4 billion for one of the larger players in server-storage hybrids. …
Code
The Essence Of Multi-Threaded Applications
In the prior two articles in this series (What Is SMP Without Shared Memory? …
Enterprise
On Premises Object Storage Mimics Big Public Clouds
Object storage is not a new concept, but this type of storage architecture is beginning to garner more attention from large organisations as they grapple with the difficulties of managing increasingly large volumes of unstructured data gathered from applications, social media, and a myriad other sources. …
Connect
The Interplay Of HPC Interconnects And CPU Utilization
Choosing the right interconnect for high-performance compute and storage platforms is critical for achieving the highest possible system performance and overall return on investment. …
Code
What Is SMP Without Shared Memory?
This is the second in the series on the essentials of multiprocessor programming. …
Cloud
Why Google Is Driving Compute Diversity
In the ideal hyperscaler and cloud world, there would be one processor type with one server configuration and it would run any workload that could be thrown at it. …
Code
The Essentials Of Multiprocessor Programming
One near constant that you have been seeing in the pages of The Next Platform is that the downside of having a slowing rate at which the speed of new processors is increasing is offset by the upside of having a lot more processing elements in a device. …
Cloud
Arista Gives Tomahawk 25G Ethernet Some XPliant Competition
Processing for server compute has gotten more general purpose for the past two decades and is seeing resurgence in built-for-purpose chips. …
Enterprise
All Flash No Longer Has To Compete With Disk
All-flash arrays are still new enough to be somewhat exotic but are – finally – becoming mainstream. …