There are many different kinds of scale that system architects are wrestling with, and over the five decades of the modern computer business, a number of techniques have been employed, often concurrently in the same system, to try to goose the overall performance of machinery over time. …
There was something ironic about meeting Mike Curtis, the vice president of engineering at Airbnb, in a hotel in lower Manhattan. …
It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific like MapReduce Engine. …
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
As noted at the beginning of this article series last week, an initial dive into in-memory computing meant questioning whether this was just another of those buzz words or whether there was some meat behind it. …
If the server and storage markets are bellwethers for the underlying strength of the economy, as we at The Next Platform believe, then the global economy has been perhaps more healthy than other indicators might have been pointing to. …
Despite the woes heaped onto investors in the past couple of weeks, the future is still out there, waiting to be created. …
Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. …
No business can avoid being inspired if not somewhat alarmed by the vast infrastructure that the hyperscalers of the world have put together in the past decade and their ability to squeeze efficiencies out of their datacenters. …
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