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Alibaba Rumored To Enter The Arm Server Chip Race

October 18, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The chip cold war between China and the United States continues to heat up like a processor with a heat sink that it is a little too small. …

Compute

Alibaba’s Key to Cryptosecurity is Its Own Quantum Platform

July 12, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

Like all hyperscalers, Alibaba has been carving its own path through the early quantum computing landscape, starting with a cloud-based service rooted in their own 11-qubit quantum system along with simulators, including one 32-qubit that is available as a service with demonstration of a 64-qubit simulator via work with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. …

Compute

The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection

May 3, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …

Cloud

Vertically Unchallenged

April 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 8

Components make compute and storage servers, and servers with application plane, control plane, and data plane software running atop them or alongside them make systems, and workflows across systems make platforms. …

Code

China’s Hyperscalers Strive to Keep Pace in Open Source

March 8, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 1

We have a good sense of what projects U.S. companies open source but when it comes to Chinese webscale companies, most notably the big three—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—that ecosystem is less public and not often discussed. …

Compute

Alibaba On The Bleeding Edge Of RISC-V With XT910

August 21, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 4

It was just over a year ago that the RISC-V Foundation, the group shepherding the chip architecture in what over the past decade has become an active and crowded processor market, ratified the base instruction set architecture (ISA) and related specifications. …

Connect

Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two

February 3, 2020 Paul Teich 5

It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …

Cloud

Alibaba Rolls Own Distributed File System for Cloud Database Performance

August 21, 2018 Nicole Hemsoth 0

There is much value in separating storage from compute, particular for cloud database deployments. …

AI

China’s Global Cloud and AI Ambitions Keep Extending

March 6, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

Gone are the days of early warehouse scale computing pioneers that were based in the U.S.. …

Cloud

Public Cloud Doesn’t Dominate IT Quite Yet

October 10, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Everyone in the IT industry likes drama, and we here at The Next Platform are no different. …

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