Connect
Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
DPU
Compute
The Steady Hand Guiding AMD’s “Prudently Expanding” Datacenter Business
The old AMD – the one before Lisa Su took over – was often brilliant with its instruction set architecture and CPU designs, but sometimes perplexingly careless with its design choices and chip roadmaps. …
Control
Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base
Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …
Compute
AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown
Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …
Connect
AMD Needs To Complete The Datacenter Set With Switching
In the past several decades, data processing and storage systems could be architected from best of breed components, and the market could – and did – sustain multiple suppliers of competing technologies in each of the categories of compute, networking, and storage. …
Compute
AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money
IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …
Connect
Intel Unrolls DPU Roadmap, With A Two Year Cadence
There is a fundamental disconnect between the cadence that chip makers want for their devices and what the hyperscalers and cloud builders would prefer. …
Compute
The Future Is Still Wide Open For Arm In The Datacenter
There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. …
Connect
Startup Rips The Switch Out Of High Performance Networks
The rapid movement of data to the cloud, the sharp rise in the amount of east-west traffic and the broadening adoption of modern applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are putting stress on traditional networking infrastructures that were designed for a different era and are struggling to meet the demands for better performance, more bandwidth and less latency. …
Compute
VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI
Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …