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The Bits And Bytes Of The Machine’s Storage
By now, as we have seen in other parts of this series, we have a pretty good sense for the basic topology of The Machine from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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A Deep Dive Into IBM’s Real Systems Business
Make of this what you will: IBM’s server business is up and has grown for four quarters in a row, but as best as we can figure, its real systems business – the collection of hardware, software, and services that it peddles on its own iron – has not grown because its software sales are flagging. …
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Disaggregation Busts Open Switch Operating Systems
In case you haven’t noticed, the switch at the heart of the datacenter is being torn apart and commoditized at all levels. …
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The Next Wave Of All-Flash Arrays Will Run Lean
If disk drives were not so inexpensive and capacious, companies would have stopped using them for persistent storage as soon as flash drives became reliable enough for an enterprise duty cycle. …
Compute
What The IT Spending Forecasts Don’t Tell You
There are so many annual rites in the IT sector that it almost has the feel of a religion sometimes. …
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IBM Doubles Up Memory, Adds Power8 CPUs For Big Iron
While the Power8 processor has been available from IBM since April 2014, the chips were only rolled out in Big Blue’s biggest iron in October of that year and the company only ramped up its largest Power8 machines, the Power Systems E880, to their fully extended NUMA configurations last May. …
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Weaving Together The Machine’s Fabric Memory
This is the third in the series of articles on The Machine, a future system coming from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. …
Compute
The Glass House Is Still Intel’s Piggy Bank
Intel had been warning for several months that revenues for its Data Center Group would decelerate a bit as 2015 wound down, and this has indeed happened. …
Cloud
Clever Ethernet Switching Rises From Calxeda ARM Ashes
Upstart ARM server chip maker Calxeda, known as Smooth Stone in its early days in reference to the five stones that David picked out of a riverbed to kill Goliath the giant with his slingshot, went bust back at the end of 2013 after a five year run to try to be the world’s first volume supplier of ARM server chips. …
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Will AMD’s Seattle Push ARM Servers Into The Mainstream?
With the launch today by AMD of the “Seattle” Opteron A1100, that makes three 64-bit ARM processors that are finally in production for servers, storage, and switches in the datacenter. …