Cloud
CPU Virtualization: The Tech Driving Cloud Economics
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
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AI
Google Fires Up Spark, Hadoop Service On Its Cloud
If Google knows a lot about one thing, it is that developers do not want to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure just so they can create applications that chew on lots of data to run the business. …
Cloud
Why Clouds Are A Risky Proposition For Big Banks And Brokers
Big commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, stock peddlers, and other financial firms are in the business of making money from money, and when they do it right, they are successful because they know how to gather and process information in such a way that they manage risk. …
Cloud
The Cloud Rains Down On Enterprises
Even years after the global economies have pulled out of the Great Recession, the pressure is on IT departments the world over to do more with the same budget or less. …
Cloud
Kubernetes Has A Ways To Go To Scale Like Google, Mesos
As the first major open source code ever donated by Google to the world and a key component of a containerized software stack, the Kubernetes container controller has generated a lot of enthusiasm and is seeing widespread and early adoption for those who want to deploy Docker or rkt containers to host their applications. …
Cloud
Arista Wields Tomahawks In 25G Ethernet Price War
It looks like networking price war is getting set to break out in the largest datacenters of the world, and this is precisely what Google and Microsoft had in mind when they formed the 25G Ethernet consortium back in July 2014. …
Cloud
Intel’s Plan To Grow Its Share Of Datacenter Wallets
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
Cloud
Google Refines Cloud Pricing Around Capacity Lessons
The public cloud has hit several growing pains over the last several years. …
Cloud
Google, Cycle Computing Pair for Broad Genomics Effort
In times long since passed, when cloud was the latest, greatest hype machine, a steady wave of “cloud enablement” companies came to fore, promising secure ease as users tiptoed across the firewall. …
Cloud
Dell Leverages Hyperscale Expertise For HPC, Clouds, And Enterprise
The Data Center Solutions custom server unit of Dell is one of the big success stories of the IT supplier. …