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Putting Enterprise Applications At The Edge
The business of business is continuing to move out of the traditional datacenter. …
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AMD’s Epyc Return To The Datacenter Ring
The server market has been spoiling for a fight for so long that it is hard to remember a time when there was intense competition across multiple processor vendors and architectures. …
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Canonical Cuts Its Own Path To Put Linux In The Cloud
Linux has gradually grown in importance along with the Internet and now the hyperscalers that define the next generation of experience on that global network. …
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What Data Deluge In Life Sciences Means For Exascale And Clouds
There is no shortage of data in the life sciences. Every talk about bioinformatics and genomics has to include the now ubiquitous hockey stick growth graph of digital DNA. …
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Cloud Provider Embraces NVMesh To Lower Storage Latencies
For the past several years, Teuto.net, a small public and private cloud provider in Germany, has used the open source Ceph software as the backbone of its storage infrastructure. …
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Cloud HPC? There’s An App For That
We have talked at length about the complexity of software and systems in HPC, and many in the community agree that HPC and AI is hard work. …
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Arista Runs Barefoot With Tofino Programmable Switch Chips
If Andy Bechtolsheim, the chief technology officer at datacenter switching upstart Arista Networks, wanted to design ASICs to try to take a bigger piece of the switch pie – or more precisely, thought that this was a good idea at all – rest assured, Arista would be spending money engineering its own chips and fighting for capacity at the four remaining foundries that have advanced processes. …
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A Private Rackspace Still Embodies The Public Cloud
One cloud was never going to be enough, no matter how much Amazon Web Services wants it to be otherwise. …
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The Server Boom Town Is Built On High Component Prices
On the face of it, if you just look at the top level numbers, the server market is booming like we have not seen since the recovery in the wake of the Great Recession for a few quarters here and there between late 2009 and early 2011. …
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The Inevitability Of Death, Taxes, And Clouds
“Death and taxes” is a phrase that is usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin from a quote in a 1789 letter: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Public cloud computing providers didn’t exist back in the days of Franklin, but if they did, they would have no doubt made the list. …