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. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
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. …
Compute
VMware ESX Scale Pushed Up And Out By User Demands
After a decade of expanding the various capacities of its server virtualization hypervisor, ESXi, and the virtual machines that run on it, you might think that VMware was pretty much done with boosting these two key components of its virtualization wares. …
Cloud
Welcome To The Next Platform
The best ideas are usually the oldest ones, thought up by early geniuses and perfected incrementally by others, and this is no less true in computing. …