Avago-Broadcom To Take On Intel In The Datacenter
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …
The name of the game among the hyperscalers is to use their hardware and software engineering to get their infrastructure compute and storage costs coming down faster than the rate of Moore’s Law improvements for the components that make up their systems. …
The people behind the OpenStack cloud controller do not spend a lot of time worrying about the competition, whoever or whatever that might be. …
When all is said and done, the performance of applications matters more than any other technical aspect that drives them. …
Two years ago, the CoreOS distribution of Linux was created by two guys literally working out of a garage who wanted to make software containers the key feature, rather than an add-on, to a Linux distribution for servers. …
Microsoft is ramping up its Azure public cloud in its effort to gnaw away at the hindquarters of Amazon Web Services, which it trails in the ongoing drive to herd enterprise computing into the cloud. …
For most companies in most industries, riding down the Moore’s Law curve to get more compute power for the same money is good enough. …
The HPC and hyperscale camps do not always get along, but they are often trying to solve similar problems when it comes to application scheduling and resource management on clusters. …
Everywhere we turn in the datacenter, monolithic software is being smashed into smaller chunks that can be isolated from each other and tweaked as needed without having to recompile and test a giant pile of code. …
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. …
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