Enterprise
The Truth About Flash Memory In The Datacenter
Flash memory has proven to be the most disruptive storage technology of the past few years. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Enterprise
Software Already Defines Your Datacenter
Just stop and take a few minutes from your always-on day, to reflect upon how enterprise IT used to be. …
Compute
Why Hyperconvergence Hasn’t Yet Taken Off At The High End
We spend a lot of time at The Next Platform thinking about technologies that trickle down from on high – whether they come from HPC centers or hyperscalers – and gradually go mainstream and end up in the datacenters of large enterprises. …
Code
When To Use Containers Or Virtual Machines, And Why
Docker is the new kid on the virtualization and containerization block. …
Enterprise
Flash Disruption Comes To Server Main Memory
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …
Compute
Future Systems: Pitting Fewer Fat Nodes Against Many Skinny Ones
Lining up the architectures of future supercomputers is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what may be in the corporate datacenter many more years out. …
Compute
Amadeus Takes Off With Containers And Clouds
Before there were Internet-based search engines that anybody could use to look for anything, one of the toughest jobs in computing was helping people work through travel agencies to book flights, cars, and hotels when they travel. …
Compute
Future Systems: Intel Ponders Breaking Up The CPU
When it comes to systems, the first thing that most people think of is compute. …
Compute
Future Systems: Can Exascale Revive AMD?
We spend a lot of time in the upper stratospheres of computing among the hyperscale and HPC crowds here at The Next Platform, and the consistent theme across these two similar but often very different customers bases is that we need a new system architecture that provides better performance at a lower cost and in a lower thermal envelope and an expanded memory hierarchy that can help with those goals. …
Enterprise
Scaling The Growing System Memory Hierarchy
The announcement this week by Intel and Micron Technology of 3D XPoint memory, which will sit somewhere between DRAM and NAND flash in future systems, has everyone thinking about the architectural, economic, and performance implications of emerging memory technologies in devices of all kinds – including those humming away in the datacenters of the world. …