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Hybrid Cloud Should Benefit You, Not Bezos
We have always been convinced, and remain so, that there is no way that the largest organizations in the world will move their computing to one of the big cloud builders. …
Cloud
The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS
Anybody who can read a financial report knows they are paying too much for compute, storage, networking, and software at Amazon Web Services. …
Compute
AWS Tunes Up Compute And Network For HPC
When it comes to hardware, there was not a lot of big news coming out of the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2022 conference this week. …
Compute
Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm
When computer architectures change in the datacenter, the attack always comes from the bottom. …
Cloud
Cloud Builders Navigate A Sea Of Economic Uncertainty
In recent years, when the economy became unstable, enterprises tended to look to the cloud as a safe haven. …
Cloud
Money Keeps Raining Down From The AWS Cloud
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
Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances
A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …
Compute
The Value Proposition For Amazon’s Graviton3 Server Chip
As is well known, we like feed and speeds and slots and watts metrics here at The Next Platform for any kind of gear that runs in the datacenter. …
Cloud
Millions Pay AWS To Give Amazon An Insurmountable IT Advantage
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? …