Connect
Disaggregation Busts Open Switch Operating Systems
In case you haven’t noticed, the switch at the heart of the datacenter is being torn apart and commoditized at all levels. …
Dell
Compute
Convergence Gets Hyper In The Datacenter
The way that systems are being built is changing, and the way that the winners and losers are tracked as they peddle their wares into the datacenter has to change to reflect that. …
Compute
Dell Engineers An HPC Market Expansion
It is hard to say exactly how much infrastructure revenue went up for grabs when IBM sold off its System x division to Lenovo last year, but in the HPC market, if you look at the data from IDC and Intersect360, which do detailed tracking of HPC organizations in terms of revenues and installed base, the numbers are not small. …
Cloud
How Many Other Public Clouds Will Be Vaporized?
There are many vectors to scale, and we try to examine them all here at The Next Platform as we consider the implications for the systems, storage, and switching that IT organizations buy or rent to support their applications. …
Compute
Dell And EMC Have More HPC Presence Than You (Or They) Think
The announced acquisition of enterprise storage giant EMC by server and PC maker Dell has fueled the pontifications of pundits across the tech industry, leaving almost no area unanalyzed. …
Cloud
With EMC And VMware, Dell Must Start Building A Platform
Now that the dust is starting to settle after Dell’s blockbuster $67 billion deal to acquire storage behemoth EMC and, by extension, its controlling interest in server virtualization juggernaut VMware, it is time to start thinking about what this means for the datacenters of the world. …
Compute
Engineered Systems Decline, Converged Systems Boom
After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …
Connect
Dell Goes Modular With Tomahawk 25G Switches
The “Tomahawk” switch chips from Broadcom, which are based on the new 25G Ethernet standard crafted by hyperscalers, are starting to appear in more and more devices. …
Cloud
Dell Leverages Hyperscale Expertise For HPC, Clouds, And Enterprise
The Data Center Solutions custom server unit of Dell is one of the big success stories of the IT supplier. …
Compute
Dell Taps SGI For Scale-Up SAP HANA
Those of us who focus on the infrastructure layer of the next platforms that companies are building sometimes forget about the applications that ride on those platforms and give them a reason to be. …