Cloud
How Big Is The Ecosystem Growing On Clouds?
Letting go of infrastructure is hard, but once you do – or perhaps more precisely, once you can – picking it back up again is a whole lot harder. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
The Uptake Of Broadwell Xeons Begins
Servers are still monolithic pieces of machinery and the kind of disaggregated and composable infrastructure that will eventually be the norm in the datacenter is still many years into the future. …
Cloud
Are ARM Server Chips Xeon Class, And Does It Matter?
We have often opined that ARMv8 processors would struggle to meet Intel Xeon chips head-on until they got a few microarchitecture revisions under their belts to improve per-core performance and until they narrowed the manufacturing gap to 14 nanometers or 16 nanometers, or perhaps even 10 nanometers. …
Compute
Intel Does The Math On Broadwell Server Upgrades
The “Broadwell” generation of Xeon processors debuted a month ago, and now that the basic feeds and speeds are out there, customers are trying to figure out what to buy as they upgrade their systems and when to do it. …
Control
Telcos Dial Up OpenStack And Mainstream It
OpenStack was born at the nexus of high performance computing at NASA and the cloud at Rackspace Hosting, but it might be the phone companies of the world that help it go mainstream. …
Compute
The Once And Future IBM Platform
More than anything else, over its long history in the computing business, IBM has been a platform company and say what you will about the woes it has had through several phases of its history, what seems obvious is that when Big Blue forgets this it runs into trouble. …
Cloud
OpenStack Still Has A Place In The Stack
The IT industry likes drama perhaps a bit more than is warranted by what actually goes on in the datacenters of the world. …
Compute
First Steps In The Program Model For Persistent Memory
In the previous article, we left off with the basic storage model having its objects first existing as changed in the processor’s cache, then being aged into volatile DRAM memory, often with changes first logged synchronously into I/O-based persistent storage, and later with the object’s changes proper later copied from volatile memory into persistent storage. …
Compute
Intel Owns The Server, Wants To Own The Rack
Chip maker Intel has been getting a lot of grief in recent days about missing the boat on putting chips in Apple’s iPhone back when the product was announced back in 2007, and then subsequently also losing out on the opportunity to have Intel Inside the Apple iPad tablet that came out three years later. …
Code
Programming For Persistent Memory Takes Persistence
Some techies are capable of writing programs in assembler, but all will agree that they are very glad that they don’t need to. …