Hyperscalers like Apple and Facebook helped flash vendors like Fusion-io, now part of SanDisk, get off the ground in such a big way that they could then attack the broader enterprise market. …
It is still early days in the software container revolution, and Microsoft is working as fast as it can to be able to leverage Docker containers and minimalist operating systems to make its Windows Server stack competitive with other platforms. …
The hyperscalers of the world have taught data processing organizations many important lessons over the past decade, and the two most important ideas are that you have to measure everything and use metrics to drive both hardware and software engineering, top to bottom, from the disk drive and memory stick all the way out to the power substation that feeds the datacenter. …
Chip makers and partners Intel and Micron Technology unveiled their jointly developed and manufactured 3D XPoint memory three weeks ago to much fanfare, but it is still perhaps sinking in to system architects and future system buyers how dramatic a move this is and how much it will change the memory hierarchy in systems and the applications that ride on it. …
The problem with both the open source OpenStack cloud controller and its analog in the VMware world, formerly known as vCloud and now known as vRealize, is that neither of these tools have the look and feel of the Amazon Web Services cloud. …
The very first disk drive in the world was a vertical rotating drum coated with magnetic material called the IBM 305 RAMAC, which still used vacuum tubes as its compute elements and weighed about a ton. …
When Hewlett-Packard launched its moonshot effort to create a new computing architecture centered on non-volatile memory last year, called The Machine, many people jumped to a number of wrong conclusions. …
What layer of software is ultimately going to be in control of the fabric of compute, storage, and networking that organizations all over the world have been gradually building? …
While companies are beginning to think at the rack scale and hyperscalers like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others have long since been thinking about computing at the scale of an entire datacenter, it is important to remember that computing happens at the server node and therefore the server node architecture matters. …
You would be hard pressed to find a more cut-throat market than for selling servers into datacenters. …
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