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Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU

November 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …

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Cloud Builders Navigate A Sea Of Economic Uncertainty

August 5, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

In recent years, when the economy became unstable, enterprises tended to look to the cloud as a safe haven. …

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Money Keeps Raining Down From The AWS Cloud

August 1, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Amazon Web Services is not the largest IT supplier in the world, but it is well on its way to attaining that position as it has notched up another quarter of growth in what is a tough economic climate. …

Cloud

Millions Pay AWS To Give Amazon An Insurmountable IT Advantage

February 4, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

What company has the lowest IT spending budget in the world, but has also paradoxically spent more money than any company in history investing in creating a new, modern, cloud-native system that is capable of running just about any application at just about any necessary scale? …

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Inside Amazon’s Graviton3 Arm Server Processor

January 4, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 16

The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have precisely one – and only one – customer. …

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Why Amazon Might Become the Largest Quantum Consumer

September 9, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

These are still early days for quantum computing, far too soon to talk about domain-specific quantum systems. …

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The AWS Printing Press Keeps Spitting Out Money

April 30, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

What is the difference between a row of servers at one of the 80 availability zones in 25 geographic regions run by Amazon Web Services and a printing press at one of the four facilities run by the US Mint? …

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Amazon CTO on Past, Present, Future of S3

April 22, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth 0

While the interface has changed little over time, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is anything but basic on the backend. …

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Even The World’s Largest Multiuser System Has Its Financial Limits

February 3, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Watching Amazon Web Services explode on the scene and grow to ginormous size has been a thing to behold. …

Compute

Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers

January 12, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …

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