If money was no object, and the laws of physics were a lot more yielding, all of the data in the world might be stored on a single medium and system architecture would be a lot simpler. …
People control the purse strings for datacenter budgets, at least for the time being until CFOs are replaced by algorithms, and that is one of the reasons why it is hard to predict precisely what enterprise, hyperscale, HPC, and cloud organizations will do in any given quarter when it comes to spending on infrastructure. …
Teradata is bringing its flagship data warehouse to Amazon Web Services. …
Now that the dust is starting to settle after Dell’s blockbuster $67 billion deal to acquire storage behemoth EMC and, by extension, its controlling interest in server virtualization juggernaut VMware, it is time to start thinking about what this means for the datacenters of the world. …
Since putting together the OpenPower Foundation two years ago, IBM and its partners have been working to get lower-cost Power8 machines into the field to better compete against the ubiquitous Xeon server platform. …
Long before it became the cloud computing juggernaut that it is today, Amazon was a fast-growing online retailer that bought its servers from traditional suppliers, starting with Hewlett-Packard and then moving on to Rackable Systems, an innovator in high density rack designs that is now part of SGI. …
Nearly a year ago at an analyst day event in New York, Qualcomm, the largest maker of ARM chips aimed at smartphones, told the world that it had aspirations for the big machines that feed those smartphones their data and applications and jumped into the 64-bit ARM server fray. …
With the sale of its System x division to Lenovo Group last fall and the winding down of its BlueGene massively parallel computing line, IBM lost a lot of its market presence in the high performance computing space. …
One of the founding premises of this publication is that companies want to build platforms – complete stacks of hardware and systems software – or use those built by others that are tailored specifically to run their applications. …
Hot on the heels of Hewlett-Packard announcing its OpenSwitch open source switch operating system, Big Switch Networks, a provider of software-defined networking tools based on the OpenFlow protocol, and Facebook, one of the world’s largest hyperscalers and an adamant proponent of open networking, have crafted their own open source network operating system. …
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