Cloud
Are Hyperscalers And Clouds Builders Smashing Up An IT Pangea?
There are times when tectonic forces are at work in the IT world. …
Compute
Cloud
Nutanix Closes Big Deals, But Profits Still Elude
At some point, every company that has equity, venture, or public investors, has to start being profitable. …
AI
Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neumann
With Moore’s Law running out of steam, the chip design wizards at Intel are going off the board to tackle the exascale challenge, and have dreamed up a new architecture that could in one fell swoop kill off the general purpose processor as a concept and the X86 instruction set as the foundation of modern computing. …
Compute
Fat And Hyperconverged Servers Save HPE’s Third Quarter
The ProLiant server is still the workhorse for plowing datacenters and sowing money at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, much as it was for the datacenter division at Compaq nearly two decades ago. …
Compute
System And Chip Architecture Shifts To A Heterogeneous World
Sometimes, if you stick around long enough in business, the market will come to you. …
Compute
IBM Power Chips Blur The Lines To Memory And Accelerators
The lines between the CPU, its main memory, the memory of accelerators, and various external storage class memories have been blurring for years, and the smudging and smearing is no more pronounced than with IBM’s Power9 family of server processors. …
Cloud
Dell EMC Leans On VMware In The Cloud
It is intuitively obvious that most enterprises are want to embrace the public cloud, and they do not want to have a sole source of their cloudy compute, storage, and networking. …
Compute
The Datacenter Impact Of The GlobalFoundries 7 Nanometer Spike
Making money from sand is not as easy as making money from oil, and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which has been assembling the GlobalFoundries chip making giant for the past decade is finding that out the hard way and as a consequence, the company is backing off on its development of 7 nanometer manufacturing techniques, which included a double whammy of traditional immersion lithography techniques as well as a move towards bleeding-edge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology. …
Compute
A Rogues Gallery of Post-Moore’s Law Options
The last decade, and few years in particular, have brought a bevy of new architectures to bear for a market keen to understand what comes after Moore’s Law. …
AI
Xilinx Unveils xDNN FPGA Architecture for AI Inference
FPGAs might not have carved out a niche in the deep learning training space the way some might have expected but the low power, high frequency needs of AI inference fit the curve of reprogrammable hardware quite well. …