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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
The engines at the heart of relational database engines are broken, and Deep Information Sciences, which is uncloaking from stealth mode today, thinks it has come up with a way to fix them. …
Technologies that are developed at hyperscale companies that operate applications at the datacenter scale, rather than of the server or the rack, can be tweaked to work for smaller enterprise customers. …
Try as it may, Ethernet cannot kill InfiniBand. For the foreseeable future, the very high-end of the server, storage, and database cluster spaces will need a network interconnect that can deliver the same or better bandwidth at lower latency than can Ethernet gear. …
Except for some edge cases where extreme low-latency or high bandwidth is absolutely required, the Ethernet protocol absolutely rules networking in the datacenter, around the campus, and in our homes. …
For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house. …
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