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. …
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. …
If complex artificial intelligence applications could easily be run on the fly across hundreds of thousands of compute cores around the world–and at a cost that significantly undercuts the top public cloud providers–a new world of potential uses and new applications will certainly flourish. …
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. …
Drawing the lines where the server ends and the network begins is getting more and more difficult. …
With the prices of flash storage coming down fast to meet a kind of parity with disk storage, and solid state memory having obvious throughput and energy savings benefits compared to spinning rust, you might think that disk drives would be pretty much dead out there on the public clouds. …
We tend to cover the various platforms that are being used at massive scale to tackle pressing enterprise and research problems, but once in a while, something out on the edge that shows how these platforms are being deployed catches our eye. …
Tis the season for massive supercomputer deals in the oil and gas segment. …
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. …
Intel’s forthcoming “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor is certainly an impressive beast, as The Next Platform revealed earlier this week. …
With the growing adoption of custom servers tailored to specific workloads, a wide variety of Xeon processors available from Intel, and the quickening commercial ramp of machinery that is compliant with Open Compute designs, you might think the last thing that Rackspace Hosting, one of the largest cloud providers in the world, would do is strike out on its own and create a new line of servers that will be based on IBM’s Power processors. …
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