Cloud
How Big Is The Ecosystem Growing On Clouds?
Letting go of infrastructure is hard, but once you do – or perhaps more precisely, once you can – picking it back up again is a whole lot harder. …
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Cloud
Are ARM Server Chips Xeon Class, And Does It Matter?
We have often opined that ARMv8 processors would struggle to meet Intel Xeon chips head-on until they got a few microarchitecture revisions under their belts to improve per-core performance and until they narrowed the manufacturing gap to 14 nanometers or 16 nanometers, or perhaps even 10 nanometers. …
Cloud
OpenStack Still Has A Place In The Stack
The IT industry likes drama perhaps a bit more than is warranted by what actually goes on in the datacenters of the world. …
Cloud
Volkswagen’s “Cloud First” Approach to Infrastructure Decisions
As automotive companies like Ford begin to consider themselves technology companies, others, including Volkswagen Group are taking a similar route. …
Cloud
Hyperscalers And Clouds On The Xeon Bleeding Edge
Hyperscalers and cloud builders are different in a lot of ways from the typical enterprise IT shop. …
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Cloud
Xeon Bang For The Buck, Nehalem To Broadwell
The IT industry spends a lot of time obsessing about Moore’s Law and whether it is alive well or heading for the old folks home. …
Cloud
Intel Cultivates The Cloud Future It Predicts
There is an old adage that the best way to predict the future is to create it. …
Cloud
Rancher Rides Herd On Containers, Borg Style
There is no question that Docker is emerging as the dominant container format and runtime for the encapsulation of the modern microservices way of creating and deploying software, and that container podding systems like Google’s Kubernetes or Docker’s Swarm are useful for managing a container collective that expresses an application. …
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Universal Spine Merges Big Switching And Routing
Convergence is a recurring theme in all kinds of layers of the datacenter these days. …