“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. … “The Inevitability Of Death, Taxes, And Clouds”
Google did its best to impress this week at its annual IO conference. … “Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor”
Sometimes you can beat them, and sometimes you can join them. … “Docker Inevitably Embraces Kubernetes Container Orchestration”
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. … “Google Boots Up Tensor Processors On Its Cloud”
Here at The Next Platform, we’ve touched on the convergence of machine learning, HPC, and enterprise requirements looking at ways that vendors are trying to reduce the barriers to enable enterprises to leverage AI and machine learning to better address the rapid changes brought about by such emerging trends as the cloud, edge computing and mobility. … “Google’s Vision for Mainstreaming Machine Learning”
It has been a long time coming, but hyperconverged storage pioneer Nutanix is finally letting go of hardware, shifting from being an a server-storage hybrid appliance maker to a company that sells software that provides hyperconverged functionality on whatever hardware large enterprises typically buy. … “Disaggregated Or Hyperconverged, What Storage Will Win The Enterprise?”
If you want to build infrastructure that scales larger than a single image of a server and an operating system, you have no choice but to network together multiple machines. … “For Google Networks, Predictable Latency Trumps Everything”
Hybrid clouds may be the direction many enterprises are heading in, but it is a path fraught with challenges. … “Google And Cisco Cross Pollenate A Hybrid Cloud”
Everyone in the IT industry likes drama, and we here at The Next Platform are no different. … “Public Cloud Doesn’t Dominate IT Quite Yet”
Makers of tightly coupled, shared memory machines can make all of the arguments they want about how it is much more efficient and easier to program these NUMA machines than it is to do distributed computing across a cluster of more loosely coupled boxes, but for the most part, the IT market doesn’t care. … “Custom Server Makers Set The Datacenter Pace”
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