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. …
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. …
In 2003, the first human genome required $3 billion and fifteen years to fully sequence. …
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. …
If it was as easy as global replacing a bunch of MIPS cores with a bunch of ARM cores, then network chip makers Cavium and Broadcom would already have long since put their respective “ThunderX” and “Vulcan” 64-bit ARM server processors into the market. …
At the moment, there are two types of software container users, but in the long run, there will probably only be one. …
You have no doubt heard the one about making it up in volume, a jokey phrase that people use when a business has to crank out more and more widgets to stay in the same place. …
It has been almost six years since the founders of Big Switch Networks started sitting in the research group meetings at Stanford University, which served as the birthplace for software-defined networking, and times have certainly changed. …
At the last five annual Supercomputing Conferences, an underlying theme has been the potential of accelerators. …
The hyperscale datacenter operators of the world take a certain kind of pride in breaking technologies and finding new and better ways to scale compute, networking, and storage. …
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