Compute
The Prospects For A Leaner And Meaner HPE
The era of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s envious – and expensive – desire to become IT software and services behemoth like the IBM of the 1990s and 2000s is coming to a close. …
Connect
Connect
Future Interconnects: Gen-Z Stitches A Memory Fabric
It is difficult not to be impatient for the technologies of the future, which is one reason that this publication is called The Next Platform. …
Compute
VMware’s Platform Revolves Around ESXi, Except Where It Can’t
Building a platform is hard enough, and there are very few companies that can build something that scales, supports a diversity of applications, and, in the case of either cloud providers or software or whole system sellers, can be suitable for tens of thousands, much less hundreds of thousands or millions, of customers. …
Cloud
The Rise Of The Fourth Wave Of Computing
According to a recent Jefferies report, the fourth wave of computing has started and it is being driven by the adoption of IoT with parallel processing as the solution. …
Connect
Making Mainstream Ethernet Switches More Malleable
While the hyperscalers of the world are pushing the bandwidth envelope and are rolling out 100 Gb/sec gear in their Ethernet switch fabrics and looking ahead to the not-too-distant future when 200 Gb/sec and even 400 Gb/sec will be available, enterprise customers who make up the majority of switch revenues are still using much slower networks, usually 10 Gb/sec and sometimes even 1 Gb/sec, and 100 Gb/sec seems like a pretty big leap. …
Connect
How Google Wants To Rewire The Internet
When all of your business is driven by end users coming to use your applications over the Internet, the network is arguably the most critical part of the infrastructure. …
AI
The System Bottleneck Shifts To PCI-Express
No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go around. …
Cloud
Ethernet Getting Back On The Moore’s Law Track
It would be ideal if we lived in a universe where it was possible to increase the capacity of compute, storage, and networking at the same pace so as to keep all three elements expanding in balance. …
Cloud
Using The Network To Break Down Server Silos
Virtual machines and virtual network functions, or VMs and VNFs for short, are the standard compute units in modern enterprise, cloud, and telecommunications datacenters. …
Connect
InfiniBand And Proprietary Networks Still Rule Real HPC
With the network comprising as much as a quarter of the cost of a high performance computing system and being absolutely central to the performance of applications running on parallel systems, it is fair to say that the choice of network is at least as important as the choice of compute engine and storage hierarchy. …