Compute
AMD Hits Reset On Server Business
AMD doesn’t talk much about servers these days, but it looks like the company is getting ready to revamp its server component business just as it is shutting down its SeaMicro unit. …
Enterprise
AI
Cassandra Carves Storage Niche, Aims At Microservers
Not all of the NoSQL and NewSQL databases that are created by hyperscale companies or by database experts trying to best them at the latency or scalability game are going to make it as commercial products over the long haul. …
Cloud
The Unstoppable Intel Datacenter Group
Intel’s decades-long hard work in vanquishing most of the competing processor architectures from most of the workloads in the datacenter is paying off. …
Code
Thin Is In For Operating Systems, Thanks To Docker
Minimalist machines and the cut-down software stacks that run on them have been the norm at hyperscalers for more than a decade, and now the idea is going mainstream. …
AI
Open GemFire Takes On In-Memory Upstarts
When fractions of a second matter between making a lot of money or losing it, any new technology that gives a latency edge is going to find a home. …
Enterprise
Storage Converges On Media Moguls
Media companies and supercomputing centers have similar compute, storage, and bandwidth issues, but their workloads and users vary enough that they require different kinds of systems. …
Cloud
How In The Hell Will Any Cloud Ever Catch AWS?
What doubles every 18 months or so and drives the IT industry? …
Cloud
With Nano Server And Containers, Microsoft Takes On Linux
Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher penetration on cloudy infrastructure. …
Enterprise
Dell Doubles Up NAS Clusters, But Can Push Higher
Network storage was invented decades ago because locally attached storage on systems was either too expensive or too difficult to share on those networks. …
Code
Etsy Shows How To Be Just Crafty Enough With Systems
An online retail business for handmade and vintage goods might be a place where you would reasonably expect the IT department to have nearly free reign to create homegrown systems. …