Stranded capacity has always been the biggest waste in the datacenter, and over the years, we have added more and more clever kinds of virtualization – hardware partitions, virtual machines and their hypervisors, and containers – as well as the systems management tools that exploit them. …
It is a rare HPC cluster that is actually upgraded – meaning some of the components in the servers or the networks or the storage that comprise the system are swapped out somewhere about halfway through its lifecycle and replaced with cheaper, faster, or more capacious components. …
There is a certain level of impatience in the IT industry to create truly composable infrastructure from disaggregated compute, storage, and networking. …
For years, enterprises have wanted to pool and then carve up the myriad resources of the datacenter to enable them to more efficiently run their workloads, reduce power consumption, and improve utilization rates. …
The concept of composable or disaggregated infrastructure is nothing new, but with approaching advances in technology on both the software and network sides (photonics in particular) an old idea might be infused with new life. …
Sometimes you have to break something to make it work right. …
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