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. …
AI
Google Pits Dataflow Against Spark
It is almost without question that search engine giant Google has the most sophisticated and scalable data analytics platform on the planet. …
Compute
Power9 Will Bring Competition To Datacenter Compute
The Power9 processor that IBM is working on in conjunction with hyperscale and HPC customers could be the most important chip that Big Blue has brought to market since the Power4 processor back in 2001. …
Compute
Inside The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System
The OpenPower effort to create an alternative to the Xeon architecture in the datacenter just got a whole lot more real now that hyperscaler Google and cloud builder Rackspace Hosting have agreed to partner on a future server design based on IBM’s future Power9 processor that both companies intend to deploy in their datacenters. …
Cloud
Construction Zones On The Ethernet Roadmap
There is never enough bandwidth in a datacenter that is the size of a football field and that is expected to work more or less like a single computer. …