Compute
Datacenter Props Up Nvidia As Gaming Sales Collapse
For the past four years, Nvidia’s datacenter business, which includes GPUs, networking, and servers, has been hot on the heels of its gaming GPU business. …
Datacenter
Compute
Cisco: Datacenter Demand Strong, Supply Not So Much
The good news, and we all need to be looking at the bright sides of things a bit these days is that the biggest IT shops in the world want to buy a lot of datacenter gear from Cisco Systems. …
Compute
Intel Adjusts, However Slowly, To New Realities In The Datacenter
While chip designer and maker Intel has a new strategy and a new executive team to implement it, it is going to take a long time for changes made last year and this year to be felt and for product and process roadmap changes to put the company into a better competitive situation. …
Compute
The Year Ahead In Datacenter Compute
For more than a decade, the pace of the server market was set by the rollout of Intel’s Xeon processors each year. …
Compute
Intel Back To Playing The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game
The supply chain is holding back the server business, and not just in the way you are thinking. …
Compute
VMware Holds Steady Course In Choppy Datacenter Seas
VMware is a company that has always embraced change. As we have noted before, the company that started off roiling the datacenter with virtualization technology that initially changed the dynamics — from efficiency to flexibility to costs — of servers and eventually expanded to include storage appliance and enterprise networks, creating what it referred to as the software-defined datacenter (SDDC). …
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. …
Connect
Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures
As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that one of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …
Compute
The Intel Datacenter Party Starts Feeling The Hangover
All good parties come to an end, and the one that Intel has enjoyed for an unbelievable dozen years, starting with the rollout of the “Nehalem” Xeon E5500 processors back in March 2009, is over. …
Compute
AMD Rides The High Performance Computing Megacycle
Server buyers have longer memories and perhaps deeper disappointment of AMD’s exit from the X86 server processor business than consumers who buy PCs, and a manufacturing constrained Intel has clearly sacrificed some Core PC chip market share to maintain some Xeon SP server market share over the past two years. …