Cloud
Rethinking The Edge In A Multicloud World
For the past decade or so, unless enterprises wanted to build more of their own datacenters, the cloud providers were the only game in town to tackle new workloads at massive scale. …
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Cloud
Will HPC Be Eaten By Hyperscalers And Clouds?
Some of the most important luminaries in the HPC sector have spoken from on high, and their conclusions about the future of the HPC market are probably going to shock a lot of people. …
Compute
AMD “Dimensions For Success” In The Datacenter
Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. …
Cloud
Sacrificing Some Performance To Make Cloud Data Analytics Portable
The big three clouds – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud – are all addressing the same issues of scale, performance, and economics and are also trying to attract the same workloads from the same pool of enterprise, government, and academic customers. …
Cloud
Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register
The coronavirus pandemic giveth to Amazon retail business and its Amazon Web Services cloud business, and the pandemic taketh away from the Amazon retail business. …
Cloud
The Slow But Tectonic Shifts In Datacenter Infrastructure
One of the more interesting trends in infrastructure that we try to get a handle on every once in a while is how much of the server and storage capacity is being deployed in bare metal, standalone fashion and how much is being sold to run utility style, cloud environments. …
Cloud
Spending On Cloud Outposts Is Climbing The Hockey Stick
We read a lot of market data here at The Next Platform, and we do our share of prognosticating and do even more riffing off the prognostications of others. …
Cloud
Cloud Is The Dominant Platform Consumption Model – So What?
If The Next Platform is about anything, it is about chronicling the tectonic changes that affect the IT landscape. …
Cloud
VMware Unifies Its Cloud Front
Over the past several years, VMware has developed a sprawling portfolio of cloud capabilities that stretch from on-premises datacenters and private clouds out to the public cloud and increasingly into the edge environment. …
Cloud
Datacenter Infrastructure Is Still Only Partly Cloudy
If you want to understand datacenter infrastructure and how the market for wares is changing, it helps to start with an absolute, top-down, all-encompassing view that brings together all server, storage, and switching revenues into a single bucket, eliminating the overlaps that occur when talking about these three different categories separately. …