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Server Makers Try To Adapt To A Harsher Climate
So, who was the biggest revenue generator, and showing the largest growth in sales, for servers in the final quarter of 2016? …
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Bouncing Back To Private Clouds With OpenStack
There is an adage, not quite yet old, suggesting that compute is free but storage is not. …
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Mixed Signals From Server Land
With a new generation of Xeon processors coming out later this year from Intel and AMD trying to get back in the game with its own X86 server chips – they probably will not be called Opterons – it is not a surprise to us that server makers are having a bit of trouble making their numbers in recent months. …
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Financial Institutions Weigh Risks, Benefits of Cloud Migration
Cloud computing in its various forms is often pitched as a panacea of sorts for organizations that are looking to increase the flexibility of their data and to drive down costs associated with their IT infrastructures. …
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Why Google’s Spanner Database Won’t Do As Well As Its Clone
Google has proven time and again it is on the extreme bleeding edge of invention when it comes to scale out architectures that make supercomputers look like toys. …
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Getting Down To Bare Metal On The Cloud
When you think of the public cloud, the tendency is to focus on the big ones, like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. …
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Solving the Challenges of Scientific Clouds
In distributed computing, there are two choices: move the data to the computation or move the computation to the data. …
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When Will AWS Move Up The Stack To Real Applications?
Imagine how little fun online retailer Amazon would be having on its quarterly calls if it had not launched its Amazon Web Services cloud almost eleven years ago. …
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Orchestrating HPC Engineering in the Cloud
Public clouds have proven useful to a growing number of organizations looking for ways to run their high-performance computing applications to scale without having to limit themselves to whatever computing capabilities they have in-house or to spending a lot of money to build up their infrastructure to meeting their growing needs. …
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ARM Server Chips Challenge X86 in the Cloud
The idea of ARM processors being used in datacenter servers has been kicking around more most of the decade. …