Cloud
Lenovo To Bring HPC Expertise To Bear In New Markets
When Lenovo Group bought the System x division from IBM last fall, it got a lot more than a business that sells rack and tower servers based on X86 processors. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Cloud
Flash Gears Up To Displace Disk In Datacenters
Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost the same or less than a disk array equipped with reasonably capacious and zippy disk drives. …
Compute
Prototype ARM Clusters Muscle Into HPC
Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …
Compute
How Machine Learning Will Improve Servers
In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …
Cloud
CoreOS Hyperscales Linux By Making It Invisible
Operating systems matter and they always will matter on the systems that run the applications of the world. …
Cloud
New Protocol Targets Cloud Scalability
It is no accident that virtualizing the network has taken longer than virtualizing servers or storage, and it is similarly not a coincidence that the hyperscale datacenter operators and a small number of very large businesses have decided to build their own switches and routers operating systems for these devices. …
Compute
Tesla Compute Drives Nvidia Upwards
The graphics processor business was humming along as Nvidia ended its fiscal 2015 year in late January. …
AI
Pivotal Opens Up More Of Its Platform
Just a few years ago, using a new kind of tool such as the Hadoop data muncher was sufficient to gain competitive advantage in many industries. …
Connect
Open Switches Squeeze Networking Incumbents
The so-called industry standard server, by which most people mean a machine based on an X86 processor and generally one made by Intel, has utterly transformed the datacenter. …
Enterprise
VSAN Ready For All Enterprise Workloads
The hyperconverged upstarts may have created the market for server-storage hybrids to support clusters of virtual machines, but it may be VMware that benefits most from this movement as customers look to simplify their infrastructure for supporting virtualized applications in their datacenters. …