AI
IBM Traverses Deeper into Graph Territory
Keeping track of the many graph analytics platforms and databases that exist and weighing their relative advantages could be a full time job. …
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Cloud
How Long Can AWS Keep Climbing Its Steep Growth Curve?
With every new technology that takes off in the IT sector, there is a somewhat predictable curve. …
Cloud
Inside Microsoft’s Azure Stack Private Cloud
Bringing the Azure platform from Microsoft’s own public cloud down into the datacenters of enterprises and service providers means more than just giving these shops the same tools to manage raw virtualized compute, storage, and networking. …
Cloud
Building 100G Momentum To Lift Mellanox Further
With its research and development costs for its latest generations of 100 Gb/sec InfiniBand and Ethernet adapters and switches largely behind it and product sales ramping, switch maker Mellanox Technologies is significantly bolstering its top and bottom lines and positioning itself to make acquisitions to broaden and deepen its product lines. …
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Offloading The Network Like A Hyperscaler
Offloading parts of the network stack from processors to specialized circuits on network adapter cards is not a new idea. …
Cloud
Azure Stack Gives Microsoft Leverage Over AWS, Google
In a very real sense, the world’s three biggest public cloud operators are also among the largest server and storage manufacturers. …
Cloud
A Deep Dive Into IBM’s Real Systems Business
Make of this what you will: IBM’s server business is up and has grown for four quarters in a row, but as best as we can figure, its real systems business – the collection of hardware, software, and services that it peddles on its own iron – has not grown because its software sales are flagging. …
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Clever Ethernet Switching Rises From Calxeda ARM Ashes
Upstart ARM server chip maker Calxeda, known as Smooth Stone in its early days in reference to the five stones that David picked out of a riverbed to kill Goliath the giant with his slingshot, went bust back at the end of 2013 after a five year run to try to be the world’s first volume supplier of ARM server chips. …
Cloud
Google Playing Swift Catch Up in Life Sciences Cloud
In 2003, the first human genome required $3 billion and fifteen years to fully sequence. …
Cloud
Looking Ahead In The Datacenter With Intel
The datacenter is a tough battleground, with vendors at every part of the stack pushing and pulling against each other to try to win business. …