Azure Stack Gives Microsoft Leverage Over AWS, Google
In a very real sense, the world’s three biggest public cloud operators are also among the largest server and storage manufacturers. …
In a very real sense, the world’s three biggest public cloud operators are also among the largest server and storage manufacturers. …
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …
For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. …
Microsoft doesn’t just love running Linux workloads on the Azure cloud. …
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. …
Over the last eighteen months Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks, has watched a stampede of users rush to the cloud, prompting the company to look for better ways to extend usability for first-time entrants to Hadoop territory and to accommodate the rush of test and dev workloads that prefer quick cloud deployments. …
If there is one lesson that the big three public cloud providers teach, it is that there is no substitute for breadth and depth in software engineering. …
With the prices of flash storage coming down fast to meet a kind of parity with disk storage, and solid state memory having obvious throughput and energy savings benefits compared to spinning rust, you might think that disk drives would be pretty much dead out there on the public clouds. …
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