In the ongoing discussions about the still-evolving world of hybrid cloud, the focus tends to be on what enterprises are doing within their own on-premises datacenters – and private clouds – and their work with public cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Being in the cloud business is difficult and expensive – even for a rich company like Google. …
There is a very interesting technical side to IT infrastructure, which we are obviously very keen on exploring here at The Next Platform. …
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. …
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. …
Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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