Cloud
AWS Skyrockets Despite, And Perhaps Thanks To, Price Cuts
It is difficult to argue with the fact that Amazon has upset the traditional model of IT as a cost center. …
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Cloud Not Growing Fast Enough For Intel
It is hard to believe, but one of highest-growth markets that the IT industry has ever seen – the transition from bare metal machines to fully orchestrated virtual infrastructure that we have come to call clouds – is not rocketing up fast enough for the world’s largest chip maker. …
Cloud
Inside IBM’s Real Systems Business
IBM made no bones about it. After divesting itself of its System x server business, which it sold off to Lenovo Group, and its Microelectronics chip making division, which Big Blue paid Globalfoundries to take, the company said that 2015 would be a year of transition on many fronts. …
Cloud
New Norms Of Managing The Hybrid Enterprise
A CIO’s job – to deliver highly available, interconnected systems and acceptable end user performance – was hard enough back in the days when all apps and systems ran under the same roof. …
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Cloud To Drive Nearly Half Of IT Infrastructure
Utility-style computing was not invented by Amazon Web Services, but you could make a credible argument that it was perfected by the computing arm of the retail giant. …
Cloud
IBM Opens Its EDA Platform To Startup Chipmakers
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …
AI
Co-Creator of Hive Brings Facebook Lessons to Analytics Platform
By the time Ashish Thusoo left Facebook in 2011, the company had grown to around 4,000 people, many of whom needed to access the roughly 150 petabytes of data—quite a hike from the 15 petabytes his team was trying to wrench from data warehouses in 2008. …
Cloud
AWS Bulks Up Compute With More Haswell Xeons
The Haswell Xeon E5 processor ramp is continuing a-pace, and Amazon Web Services is putting out a new variant of its EC2 compute instances that employ custom versions of these Intel processors. …
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Life Sciences Clouds Raise More Cluster Questions
When it comes to using the public cloud, few market segments have a better story to tell than the life sciences sector. …
Cloud
The Cloud Versus HPC Cluster Cost Conundrum
The build versus buy argument for high performance computing clusters has gathered steam lately, in part because some of the critical missing pieces both performance and software ecosystem-wise are snapping into place. …