Cloud
FICO CIO on the Costs, Concerns of Cloud Transition
Moving large-scale enterprise operations into the cloud is not a decision to be made lightly. …
Amazon
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AWS First Up With Volta GPUs In The Cloud
It must be tough for the hyperscalers that are expanding into public cloud and the public cloud builders that also use their datacenters to run their own businesses to decide whether to hoard all of the new technologies that they can get their hands on for their own benefit, or to make money selling that capacity to others. …
Cloud
Public Cloud Doesn’t Dominate IT Quite Yet
Everyone in the IT industry likes drama, and we here at The Next Platform are no different. …
Cloud
When Will AWS Move Up The Stack To Real Applications?
Imagine how little fun online retailer Amazon would be having on its quarterly calls if it had not launched its Amazon Web Services cloud almost eleven years ago. …
Cloud
The Inevitability Of Private Public Clouds
Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. …
Compute
In-Memory Breathes New Life Into NUMA
Hyperscalers and the academics that often do work with them have invented a slew of distributed computing methods and frameworks to get around the problem of scaling up shared memory systems based on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or non-uniform memory access (NUMA) techniques that have been in the systems market for decades. …
Cloud
How Big Is The Ecosystem Growing On Clouds?
Letting go of infrastructure is hard, but once you do – or perhaps more precisely, once you can – picking it back up again is a whole lot harder. …
Cloud
How Long Can AWS Keep Climbing Its Steep Growth Curve?
With every new technology that takes off in the IT sector, there is a somewhat predictable curve. …
Cloud
How Many Other Public Clouds Will Be Vaporized?
There are many vectors to scale, and we try to examine them all here at The Next Platform as we consider the implications for the systems, storage, and switching that IT organizations buy or rent to support their applications. …
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The Custom Gear Inside Amazon’s Cloud
Long before it became the cloud computing juggernaut that it is today, Amazon was a fast-growing online retailer that bought its servers from traditional suppliers, starting with Hewlett-Packard and then moving on to Rackable Systems, an innovator in high density rack designs that is now part of SGI. …