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Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU

November 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

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. …

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The Steady Hand Guiding AMD’s “Prudently Expanding” Datacenter Business

October 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

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. …

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Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base

August 30, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …

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AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown

August 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …

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AMD Needs To Complete The Datacenter Set With Switching

June 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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. …

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AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money

June 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 11

IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …

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Intel Unrolls DPU Roadmap, With A Two Year Cadence

May 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There is a fundamental disconnect between the cadence that chip makers want for their devices and what the hyperscalers and cloud builders would prefer. …

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The Future Is Still Wide Open For Arm In The Datacenter

February 8, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. …

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Startup Rips The Switch Out Of High Performance Networks

November 2, 2021 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …

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VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI

October 6, 2021 Jeffrey Burt 0

Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …

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