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. …
Part II is published: The Nitty Gritty of In-Memory Computing can be found here
Not really very long ago the terms In-Memory Computing (IMC) and In-Memory Database (IMDB) seemed to start showing up big time. …
The last thing that server virtualization juggernaut VMware wants to do is become a hardware vendor. …
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. …
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