Store
It Takes Geological Patience To Change Datacenter Storage
Moving from an HPC center or a hyperscaler to work on enterprise software has to be a frustrating experience. …
Compute
OpenPower Puts Open Source Software Guru In Charge
If you want to build a successful hardware ecosystem around a chip architecture that has recently been open sourced, as the Power chip instruction set was last August, then it probably makes a lot of sense to put someone at the helm of the project who has deep and broad experience participating in the open source software ecosystem. …
Cloud
Google And Dell Pave The Way For File Data In The Cloud
A year ago, Dell Technologies made a significant push deeper into the fast-growing hybrid cloud space, unveiling its Dell Technologies Cloud initiative that includes hybrid cloud platforms that take advantage of the tight integration of technologies from Dell and VMware, which is majority owned by the larger company. …
Connect
Hyperscalers Set The Pace For 800G Ethernet
The hyperscalers and the largest public clouds have been on the front end of each successive network bandwidth wave for more than a decade, and it only stands to reason that they, rather than the IEEE, would want to drive the standards for faster Ethernet networks. …
AI
Google Teaches AI To Play The Game Of Chip Design
If it wasn’t bad enough that Moore’s Law improvements in the density and cost of transistors is slowing. …
Compute
Throwing Down The Gauntlet To CPU Incumbents
The server processor market has gotten a lot more crowded in the past several years, which is great for customers and which has made it both better and tougher for those that are trying to compete with industry juggernaut Intel. …
Connect
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Two
It is funny to think of the modern datacenter as an appliance, like an iPhone, but in the cases of the hyperscalers and the very largest public cloud builders, this is more or less what they are building. …
AI
The Debate Over Regulating AI Ramps Up
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, generated a lot of buzz recently with an op-ed he wrote for the The Financial Times calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, adding a high-profile voice into a debate that has been simmering as innovation around AI, machine learning and deep learning have advanced rapidly. …
Compute
Quantum Computing Providers Pick Their Dance Partners
Toward the end of 2019, a flurry of announcements by some of the most prominent IT companies suggests that collaborations will become increasingly important in the quantum computing space as the players jockey for position in the nascent market. …
Control
Ma Bell, Not Google, Creates The Real Open Source Borg
True to its name, Google’s famous Borg cluster controller has absorbed a lot of different ideas about how to manage server clusters and the applications that run atop them at the search engine and now cloud computing giant. …