Cloud
The Microserver, Redux And Reconsidered
If there is one rule of computing, is that it gets increasingly more expensive and more difficult to scale up performance within a single device or a single server node. …
Compute
Getting To The Root Of Security With Trusted Silicon
The increasingly distributed nature of computing and the rapid growth in the number of the small connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) are combining with trends like the rise of silicon-level vulnerabilities highlighted by Spectre, Meltdown, and more recent variants to create an expanding and fluid security landscape that’s difficult for enterprises to navigate. …
Compute
Istio Aims To Be The Mesh Plumbing For Containerized Microservices
In the wonderful world of software containers, it can feel like the ground is constantly shifting beneath your feet as new projects spring up to address problems that you thought had been solved long ago. …
Cloud
The Many Machine Learning Engines Of Google
If there is anything the hyperscalers have taught us, it is the value of homogeneity and scale in an enterprise. …
Cloud
Google Takes On Public Cloud Rivals With Private Kubernetes Service
As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply believes that all applications should, in the fullness of time, move to the public cloud. …
Cloud
When Does Kubernetes Become Invisible And Ubiquitous?
The sign of a mature technology is not just how pervasive it is, but in how invisible and easy to use it is. …
AI
The Inevitability Of Death, Taxes, And Clouds
“Death and taxes” is a phrase that is usually attributed to Benjamin Franklin from a quote in a 1789 letter: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Public cloud computing providers didn’t exist back in the days of Franklin, but if they did, they would have no doubt made the list. …
AI
Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor
Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. …
Control
Docker Inevitably Embraces Kubernetes Container Orchestration
Sometimes you can beat them, and sometimes you can join them. …
Uncategorized
Google Boots Up Tensor Processors On Its Cloud
Google laid down its path forward in the machine learning and cloud computing arenas when it first unveiled plans for its tensor processing unit (TPU), an accelerator designed by the hyperscaler to speeding up machine learning workloads that are programmed using its TensorFlow framework. …