Control
How Apache Is Losing The Web To NGINX
Some parts of the platform stack are so ubiquitous that they are almost transparent. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Control
Docker Trickles Down From Hyperscale To Enterprise
The story for the adoption of new technologies follows a familiar narrative arc: The innovators create something, and it takes some time for the hype to die down and the software to mature and harden before it is appropriate for the rest of the market to consume. …
Connect
Oracle Engineers Its Own InfiniBand Interconnects
Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief technology officer of database, middleware, and application software giant Oracle, caught the hardware bug pretty bad when he decided to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in early 2009. …
Cloud
The 25G Ethernet Ramp Starts On The Server
There are two sides to every server network connection coming out of the rack, and staunch competitors are vying to own as much of the circuitry real estate that drives those connections as they can possibly attain. …
Cloud
Open Hardware Means More Than Saving Money For Rackspace
The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …
Enterprise
The Myth Of In-Memory Computing
These days when you talk to people in the tech industry, you will get the idea that in-memory computing solves everything. …
Cloud
Will Enterprises Do Single Source Or Hybrid Clouds?
To say that public cloud infrastructure as a service is seeing explosive growth is an understatement. …
Compute
China Lays The Chip Foundation For Its Next Platform
It would be far beyond the purview of The Next Platform to have deep insight to the complexity, scope, and scale of the Chinese economy. …
Compute
Dell Brings Hyperscale Iron Down To Telco Clouds
With the Mobile World Congress kicking off next week in Barcelona, the IT market will for a few days be focusing a little more than usual on the infrastructure that underpins the mobile services that we all increasingly depend on in our day to day lives. …
Compute
Nutanix Squeezes Lots More Performance From Server-SAN Hybrid
One of the big issues with any complex piece of distributed software is getting the most performance out of the scale inherent in the system. …