It has been a year since Intel launched its “Skylake” Xeon SP processors, and even though the big cloud builders and hyperscalers had even earlier access to these chips, they are still only just now rolling out new hardware systems and related virtual machine instance types based on the Skylakes. …
For many enterprises these days, managing data has the feel of a three-ring circus. …
It is safe to say that VMware would have been perfectly happy if Docker containers had never been invented. …
Way back in the early days of the commercial Internet, when we all logged into what seemed to be new but what was actually a quite old service used by academic institutions and government agencies that rode on the backbones of the telecommunications network, there were many, many thousands of Internet service providers who provided the interface between our computers and the network capacity that was the onramp of the information superhighway. …
In the long run, provided there are enough API pipes into the code, software as a service might be the most popular way to consume applications and systems software for all but the largest organizations that are running at such a scale that they can command almost as good prices for components as the public cloud intermediaries. …
It will not happen for a long time, if ever, but we surely do wish that Amazon Web Services, the public cloud division of the online retailing giant, was a separate company. …
Moving large-scale enterprise operations into the cloud is not a decision to be made lightly. …
It’d be difficult to downplay the impact Amazon Web Services has had on the computing industry over the past decade. …
Tech vendors often like to boast about being first movers in a particular market, saying that leading the charge puts them at a great advantage over their competitors. …
The global server market is increasingly driven by the hyperscalers, and the trendsetter for all of them is Amazon Web Services. …
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