The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
After three years of research into how it might accelerate its Bing search engine using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Microsoft came up with a scheme that would let it lash Stratix V devices from Altera to the two-socket server nodes in the minimalist Open Cloud Servers that it has designed expressly for its hyperscale datacenters. …
The vast majority of the so-called “engineered systems” that Oracle sells into datacenters are based on Intel Xeon processors. …
A little-known upstart Chinese chip maker called Phytium Technology was set to use the Hot Chips 27 conference in Silicon Valley as a coming out party of sorts for its 64-bit ARM server processors, and the company’s director of research, Charles Zhang, was not permitted to come to the event because of visa issues. …
The Data Center Solutions custom server unit of Dell is one of the big success stories of the IT supplier. …
The IT sector was bracing for a slowdown in system spending a few weeks ago, but it doesn’t look much like a slowdown has materialized, despite warnings from server adapter card maker QLogic that its business had slowed because the ramp for Intel’s “Haswell” Xeon E5 v3 processors and their “Grantley” server platform was not as fast as QLogic hoped. …
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. …
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