Cloud
Why Google Is Driving Compute Diversity
In the ideal hyperscaler and cloud world, there would be one processor type with one server configuration and it would run any workload that could be thrown at it. …
Cloud
Google Wants Kubernetes To Rule The World
At some point, all of the big public cloud providers will have to eat their own dog food, as the parlance goes, and run their applications atop the cloudy version of their infrastructure that they sell to other people, not distinct and sometimes legacy systems that predate the ascent of their clouds. …
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Learning From Google’s Cloud Storage Evolution
Making storage cheaper on the cloud does not necessarily mean using tape or Blu-Ray discs to hold data. …
Compute
Opening Up The Server Bus For Coherent Acceleration
When IBM started to use the word “open” in conjunction with its Power architecture more than three years with the formation of the OpenPower Foundation three years ago, Big Blue was not confused about what that term meant. …
Compute
One Rack To Stack Them All
Stacking up electronics equipment in precise form factors that slide into standard racks is not a new idea, and in fact it is one that predates the modern era of computing. …
Cloud
The Inevitability Of Private Public Clouds
Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. …
Cloud
The Walls Come Down On The Last Bastion Of Proprietary
Open source software has done a lot to transform the IT industry, but perhaps more than anything else it has reminded those who architect complex systems that all elements of a datacenter have to be equally open and programmable for them to make the customizations that are necessary to run specific workloads efficiently and therefore cost effectively. …
Compute
Google Takes Unconventional Route with Homegrown Machine Learning Chips
At the tail end of Google’s keynote speech at its developer conference Wednesday, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO mentioned that Google had built its own chip for machine learning jobs that it calls a Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU. …
AI
Facebook Flow Is An AI Factory Of The Future
We have been convinced for many years that machine learning, the kind of artificial intelligence that actually works in practice, not in theory, would be a key element of the next platform. …
Cloud
Google And Friends Add Prometheus To Kubernetes Platform
There are a lot of moving parts in a modern platform, and in this regard, they are no different from the platforms made a generation earlier. …