Cloud
The Microserver, Redux And Reconsidered
If there is one rule of computing, is that it gets increasingly more expensive and more difficult to scale up performance within a single device or a single server node. …
Enterprise
Cloud
For Whom The Dell Toils
It has been nearly five years since Michael Dell lined up $24 billion in cash to take the IT company that bears his name private, and it has been nearly four years since Dell announced its mammoth $67 billion deal to acquire enterprise storage maker EMC and its server virtualization minion, VMware. …
Cloud
Are Hyperscalers And Clouds Builders Smashing Up An IT Pangea?
There are times when tectonic forces are at work in the IT world. …
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. …
Cloud
VMware Always Sees A Cloudy Future
Over the past two decades, VMware has built an enviable enterprise customer base of half a million unique customers for its technology to virtualize X86 servers. …
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. …
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
Dell Moves One Step Closer To Composable With PowerEdge MX
There is a certain level of impatience in the IT industry to create truly composable infrastructure from disaggregated compute, storage, and networking. …
Cloud
Securing The Server, Inside And Out
Computing is hard enough, but the sophistication and proliferation of attacks on IT infrastructure, from the firewall moat surrounding the corporate network all the way down into the guts of the operating system kernel and deep into the speculative execution units on the physical processor, make the task of computing – with confidence – doubly difficult. …