Except for some edge cases where extreme low-latency or high bandwidth is absolutely required, the Ethernet protocol absolutely rules networking in the datacenter, around the campus, and in our homes. …
Hoarding data using commodity storage servers is “cheap and cheerful,” as the phrase goes. …
There is a kind of law of relativity that differentiates hyperscale companies from large enterprises. …
In yet another example of how distributed systems sometimes work better than centralized ones, the hardware engineers at Microsoft have come up with a new battery-backed power supply for their homegrown servers that allows for massive – and expensive – battery rooms to be eliminated from the cloud giant’s datacenters. …
If you can’t beat them, join them. That is the old adage that compelled server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard to strike a partnership with original design manufacturer Foxconn last year for a new line of minimalist servers that HP could sell against other ODM upstarts that have stormed the datacenters of hyperscale and cloud service providers in recent years. …
The number of production Hadoop clusters is growing, but far too often, that means the number of dedicated clusters just for running it is expanding as well. …
If you think that the giants of the hyperscale and cloud world have a hankering for minimalist, custom servers forged by original design manufacturers, you should see the appetites they have for their storage gear–it is a lot larger perhaps than many realize. …
When Lenovo Group bought the System x division from IBM last fall, it got a lot more than a business that sells rack and tower servers based on X86 processors. …
Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost the same or less than a disk array equipped with reasonably capacious and zippy disk drives. …
The phrase, “past results are not indicative of future returns” can be applied across the board in life, but in financial services, this philosophy has become a strategic, mathematical principle to live by. …
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