Compute
Why Are We Still Waiting For ARM Servers?
We hear the rumors and scuttlebutt, just like many of you probably do. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Control
Puppet Takes Orchestration Up The Stack To Apps
The mantra of the hyperscalers is “infrastructure as code,” meaning that all layers of hardware and systems software should be configurable through software, not by humans working manually through command line interfaces. …
Connect
HP Opens Up Homegrown Network Operating System
The open networking movement just got a little bit more open. …
Cloud
Cloudy Infrastructure Drives Datacenter Spending Growth
We have said it before here at The Next Platform, and we will say it again. …
AI
Making NoSQL Scale Better On Hadoop
Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used as a the repository of record for all kinds of data. …
Cloud
Microsoft Azure Adds GPUs, Beefs Up CPU Compute
For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. …
Cloud
CPU Virtualization In The Cloud: Getting Your Slice, And More
In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …
Code
Exascale HPC Needs An Application Innovation Spark
Every evolution in computing hardware brings with it big challenges for software developers. …
Control
What Makes Containers At Scale So Difficult
As has been demonstrated, it is relatively easy to launch tens of thousands of containers on a single host. …
AI
MemSQL Wants To Be The Storage Engine For Spark
The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. …