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Dell Looks Ahead To Skylake Xeon Systems

March 23, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The tick-tock of Intel’s Xeon server chip product cycles means that some generations are more important than others, and while we welcome the “Broadwell” Xeon E5 v4 chips that are impending, it is safe to say that the confluence of the “Skylake” Xeon E5 v5 chips with a slew of new memory and fabric technologies next year will quite possibly be the most transformative year we have seen in systems since the “Nehalem” Xeon launch back in March 2009. …

Telcos Call On ARM To Compete For Compute

March 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The hyperscaler and HPC organizations of the world are not the only places where innovation happens with infrastructure. …

How FPGAs Can Take On GPUs And Knights Landing

March 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Nallatech doesn’t make FPGAs, but it does have several decades of experience turning FPGAs into devices and systems that companies can deploy to solve real-world computing problems without having to do the systems integration work themselves. …

Cloud

Learning From Rackspace About Bare Metal Clouds

March 16, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

While most public cloud infrastructure has full-on server virtualization to dice and slice the compute, memory, and I/O capacity of iron so companies can share it, not every workload runs well atop virtual machines and in those cases, a bare metal cloud is a better place to be. …

Intel Marrying FPGA, Beefy Broadwell for Open Compute Future

March 14, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 2

For those who read here often, there are clear signs that the FPGA is set to become a compelling acceleration story over the next few years. …

Xeon D Shows How ARM Can Beat Intel

March 14, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Intel has been perfectly honest about the fact that certain technologies it is putting forward are being driven by hyperscalers and cloud builders. …

Shiny New Open Compute Gear, And The Roadmap Ahead

March 13, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The Open Compute Project started by Facebook nearly five years ago is in many respects a tier one server maker a tier one server maker that just so happens to have multiple manufacturers etching motherboards and bending metal instead of one. …

Rising Clouds Lift Server Fortunes

March 11, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The voracious appetite for compute and storage capacity among hyperscalers and cloud builders once again drove the server market to new heights as 2015 came to a close, and unless some wobbling from Hewlett Packard Enteprise and Cisco Systems is a leading indicator of a slowdown – and we do not think it is – then this year will probably also be a record setter. …

Google Joins Open Compute To Find Infrastructure Friends

March 9, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is not every day that you see the titans of some of the biggest hyperscalers share the same stage, and even less likely that the companies that pride themselves on having bootstrapped their own infrastructure because they can do it better than the vendor community at their massive scale would agree on setting standards together. …

HPE Aims Cloudline Minimalist Iron At Big Cold Storage

March 9, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

A year ago, at the Open Compute Summit, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, which was not even called that yet, unveiled its bare-bones, vanity free, hyperscale-class Cloudline server lineup, which had the double-edged task of keeping the company selling minimalist machines in China in conjunction with manufacturing partner Foxconn while at the same time giving HPE a chance to defend against the unrelenting pressure of the handful of original design manufacturers (ODMs) that want to topple the world’s largest server maker from its perch. …