Cloud
Microsoft’s Open Compute Gambit Pays Off
Just because computing and storage are commodities does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that they are inexpensive. …
Cloud
Open Hardware Means More Than Saving Money For Rackspace
The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …
Enterprise
The Myth Of In-Memory Computing
These days when you talk to people in the tech industry, you will get the idea that in-memory computing solves everything. …
AI
Facebook To Open Up Custom Machine Learning Iron
There is a simple test to figure out just how seriously social network Facebook is taking machine learning, and it has nothing to do with research papers or counting cat pictures automagically with neural networks. …
Connect
Facebook Busts Out Of Homegrown Switches
There is a misconception out there that the hyperscalers of the world are so rich that they always have the shiniest new toys in their datacenters. …
Compute
Three Is The Magic Number For Hardware Cycles
When is the right time to get rid of servers and storage and replace them with shiny new gear? …
Compute
Three Secrets Of How Facebook Copes With Scale
The entire premise of language and the storage of communication is founded on a principle that we can learn from the mistakes and successes of others. …
Enterprise
NoSQL Pioneer Readies Disruptive Scale-Out Storage
When you have tackled some of the biggest database and storage problems in hyperscale computing, what do you do as an encore? …
Code
How Facebook “Hack” is Upending Programming Efficiency
There is a clever combination of language and platform development rolling out of Facebook engineering in the form of HHVM and the Hack programming language—and what is working for production users of this code base inside Facebook, is also powering production jobs at Baidu, Box, and Wikipedia. …
Control
HP Follows Hyperscale Lead With Composable Infrastructure
The people in the systems business at Hewlett-Packard have finally caught the DevOps bug. …