Cloud
AWS Adds More Epyc Compute To EC2
For the first decade that Amazon Web Services was in operation, its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) raw compute was available in precisely one flavor: Intel Xeon. …
Epyc
Compute
Voracious Appetite For Compute Is The New Normal
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world put a third of their installed base into the trash compactor every year because it is much less costly for them to keep upgrading machinery than it is to operate older stuff that eats space and burns power and cooling less efficiently. …
Cloud
AMD Nails Its Epyc Server Targets For 2018
The second 5 percent chunk of server shipment market share for chip maker AMD is probably going to come easier than the first 5 percent share, which was attained as AMD exited the fourth quarter and, significantly, was a stake in the ground that chief executive officer Lisa Su drove into the ground in late 2016 as the “Naples” Epyc ramp got under way. …
Cloud
AMD’s Long Road From Naples To Milan Centers On Rome
AMD president and chief executive officer Lisa Su is fond of saying that the road to Rome goes through Naples as a way of reminding everyone that they can’t sit on the sidelines and wait for the second generation “Rome” Epyc processors to come to market in 2019. …
Cloud
Intel To Challenge AMD With 48 Core “Cascade Lake” Xeon AP
AMD is hosting its “Next Horizon” datacenter event in San Francisco this week, and archrival Intel, which is losing some market share to AMD but not feeling the pain on its books yet thanks to a massive buildout in server infrastructure at hyperscalers, cloud builders, and smaller service providers like telcos, is hitting back by divulging some of its plans for next year’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon lineup. …
Compute
AMD Inches Up Server Share On The Way To Rome
IT shops are notorious when it comes to avoiding risk, and this is something that we should be grateful for because it increases the odds that this increasingly compute-dependent world keeps working. …
Compute
Virtualization Is The Real Opportunity For Epyc
The fleet of servers in the enterprise datacenters of the world – distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers – are getting a bit long in the tooth. …
Cloud
Securing The Server, Inside And Out
Computing is hard enough, but the sophistication and proliferation of attacks on IT infrastructure, from the firewall moat surrounding the corporate network all the way down into the guts of the operating system kernel and deep into the speculative execution units on the physical processor, make the task of computing – with confidence – doubly difficult. …
Compute
Getting All Zen About AMD’s Datacenter Business
Imagine, if you will, that your two biggest rivals were Intel and Nvidia, and that you had to fight a two front war to storm the datacenter. …
Compute
Why Intel Must Respond To AMD’s Single Socket Threat
There are so many ironies in the hardware business that it is amazing that we aren’t covered in rust. …