Cloud
Monitoring Is Different For Ephemeral Infrastructure
The cloud doesn’t just provide utility pricing on compute, storage and networking. …
AWS
Cloud
CPU Virtualization In The Cloud: Getting Your Slice, And More
In the first part in this series, we talked about the nature of processor virtualization on different systems and how this affects the underlying capacity and performance of compute in cloud infrastructure. …
Cloud
CPU Virtualization: The Tech Driving Cloud Economics
We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. …
Cloud
Boosting the Genomics Pipeline on the Amazon Cloud
Last week we described the recent, explosive growth of Amazon Web Services, which the company says is due in large part to an influx of new users—and existing AWS customers who are scaling their workloads ever higher. …
Cloud
AWS Skyrockets Despite, And Perhaps Thanks To, Price Cuts
It is difficult to argue with the fact that Amazon has upset the traditional model of IT as a cost center. …
Compute
GPU Computing Still Nascent On Public Clouds
The public cloud is precisely as conservative and innovative as the enterprise customers that make use of it. …
Cloud
AWS Bulks Up Compute With More Haswell Xeons
The Haswell Xeon E5 processor ramp is continuing a-pace, and Amazon Web Services is putting out a new variant of its EC2 compute instances that employ custom versions of these Intel processors. …
Cloud
Can Cloud Pricing Stay On Moore’s Law Curves?
The name of the game among the hyperscalers is to use their hardware and software engineering to get their infrastructure compute and storage costs coming down faster than the rate of Moore’s Law improvements for the components that make up their systems. …
AI
Microsoft Stacks Azure Up Against AWS
Amazon Web Services may be the 800-pound silverback alpha-ape in the rapidly expanding cloud industry, seeing as how its infrastructure revenue is greater than its four closest competitors combined, but that hasn’t stopped its fast-growing challenger, Microsoft Azure, from beating its own chest and showing off its strengths. …
Cloud
How AWS Is Turning Virtual Iron Into Gold
What is stronger than the US dollar? The cloud computing division of online retailing giant Amazon, which would have long since been in a heap of trouble with Wall Street if it had not fired up its utility computing service back in March 2006. …