Compute
Smashing The Server To Put It Back Together Better
Sometimes you have to break something to make it work right. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Compute
Nutanix Expands Hyperconvergence Footprint
Storage servers in their many forms are rapidly making traditional storage arrays, with their custom electronics, a thing of the past, and hyperconverged server-SAN hybrids are a hot commodity in the enterprise datacenter because they radically simplify virtualized infrastructure and deliver some of the operational benefits that hyperscalers have created for their own converged infrastructure. …
Cloud
Object Storage Swiftly Storms The Datacenter
The hyperscale datacenter operators of the world take a certain kind of pride in breaking technologies and finding new and better ways to scale compute, networking, and storage. …
Compute
ARM Servers: What Can AMD Do, And How Fast?
As we pointed out in the analysis opening up this series on the future prospects for ARM-based servers, it has been quite a challenge getting all of the hardware, software, and money lined up to storm the datacenter. …
Compute
Inside Oracle’s New Sparc M7 Systems
The core counts keep going up and up on server processors, and that means system makers do not have to scale up their systems as far to meet a certain performance level. …
Enterprise
Intel Shows Off 3D XPoint Memory Performance
Memory chip partners Intel and Micron Technology shook up the flash and main memory markets back in July with the announcement of 3D XPoint memory, something that can be used as both a bit-addressable device like DRAM and a block device like flash. …
Cloud
Ellison Pits Oracle Cloud Against AWS, Azure
Oracle co-founder and now chief technology officer Larry Ellison may have come late to the term cloud computing, but the database giant that expanded into middleware and applications over his tenure was not – definitely not – late to understanding the transformational aspects of compute utilities hosting application software. …
Compute
SGI Targets Oracle In-Memory On Big Iron
For the past several years, SGI has been extending itself beyond its traditional supercomputing customer base out into the broader enterprise at large. …
Cloud
How Many Other Public Clouds Will Be Vaporized?
There are many vectors to scale, and we try to examine them all here at The Next Platform as we consider the implications for the systems, storage, and switching that IT organizations buy or rent to support their applications. …
Cloud
Azure CTO Plots The Future Of Cloud Building
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …