Open Hardware Means More Than Saving Money For Rackspace
The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …
The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …
Shopping for high performance computing machinery can be a sobering experience. …
It would be far beyond the purview of The Next Platform to have deep insight to the complexity, scope, and scale of the Chinese economy. …
With the Mobile World Congress kicking off next week in Barcelona, the IT market will for a few days be focusing a little more than usual on the infrastructure that underpins the mobile services that we all increasingly depend on in our day to day lives. …
One of the big issues with any complex piece of distributed software is getting the most performance out of the scale inherent in the system. …
There are a lot of ways to build or buy hyperconverged server-storage hybrids, and EMC is working with sister company VMware to bring yet another way to market that could, in the end, be the preferred way for many enterprise customers. …
Breaking into the datacenter with a new chip architecture is probably more difficult than getting by the security in a modern glass house and literally breaking into it, either physically or digitally over the wire. …
As the dominant supplier of switches and routers to enterprise and service provider datacenters and as an upstart server maker that has carved out a hefty slice of the systems market in the past seven years, Cisco Systems is a harbinger of what is going on in terms of architectural shifts and spending among the world’s largest companies. …
Just a few years ago, the promise of ultra-low power, high performance computing was tied to the rather futuristic-sounding vision of a “brain chip” or neuromorphic processor, which could mimic the brain’s structure and processing ability in silicon—quickly learning and chewing on data as fast as it could be generated. …
It takes a lot of engineering talent, time, and money to create custom interconnects that are the basis of scale-up servers, which is one of the reasons that so few companies have been able to sustain that investment over the years. …
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