No business can avoid being inspired if not somewhat alarmed by the vast infrastructure that the hyperscalers of the world have put together in the past decade and their ability to squeeze efficiencies out of their datacenters. …
There has been quite a bit of talk over the last couple of years about what role high bandwidth memory technologies like the Intel and Micron-backed Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) might play in the future of both high performance computing nodes as well as in other devices, but the momentum is still somewhat slow, at least in terms of actual systems that are implementing HMC or its rival high bandwidth memory counterpart, High Bandwidth Memory (backed by a different consortium of vendors, including Nvidia and AMD). …
It is still early days in the software container revolution, and Microsoft is working as fast as it can to be able to leverage Docker containers and minimalist operating systems to make its Windows Server stack competitive with other platforms. …
The hyperscalers of the world have taught data processing organizations many important lessons over the past decade, and the two most important ideas are that you have to measure everything and use metrics to drive both hardware and software engineering, top to bottom, from the disk drive and memory stick all the way out to the power substation that feeds the datacenter. …
What layer of software is ultimately going to be in control of the fabric of compute, storage, and networking that organizations all over the world have been gradually building? …
Docker is the new kid on the virtualization and containerization block. …
Before there were Internet-based search engines that anybody could use to look for anything, one of the toughest jobs in computing was helping people work through travel agencies to book flights, cars, and hotels when they travel. …
As the needs for ever faster analytics on growing datasets continue to mount, the overwhelming number of projects, startups, and pushes from established companies to find new ways to process and manage data climb as well. …
Sometimes the old ideas are the best ones, but they sometimes get ahead of their time. …
The point of software containers is to provide a level of abstraction for bits of system and application programs so they can be run anywhere and maintained easily. …
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