The Armv9 architecture has a lot of technical enhancements to commend it, but as far as Arm Holdings, the creator and licensor of the Arm architecture, is concerned one of the best features of Armv9, which was first unveiled four years ago, is that it comes with a higher royalty fee than prior Armv7 and Armv8 architectures. …
There has been no shortage of turmoil in the global economy thanks to war – trade and otherwise – and skirmish and terror of various kinds and severity. …
It’s still Ketchup Week here at The Next Platform, and we are going to be circling back to look at the financials of a number of bellwether datacenter companies that we could not get to during a number of medical crisis – including but not limited to our family catching COVID when we took a week of vacation at a lake in Michigan. …
If you look at the financial results for Cisco Systems over more than a decade, it is hard to tell one year from the other. …
We have a long-standing joke that dates from the early 2000s, when the hyperscalers – there were not yet cloud builders as we now know them – started having hundreds of millions of users and millions of servers and storage arrays to run applications for them at the same time there was the beginnings of consolidation among the OEMs who created the servers and storage used by nearly all enterprises, including dot-com startups. …
It was only six months ago when we were talking about how system maker Supermicro was breaking through a $10 billion annual revenue run rate and was setting its sights on a $20 billion target. …
It took a long, long time to convert the old IBM PC business acquired in 2004 into the dominant supplier of client devices in the world, but Lenovo is nothing but not patient and bypassed HP Inc in 2013 and has had the largest share of the market since that time. …
Supermicro has always been an interesting IT supplier for the datacenter, and it is getting more interesting by the year as it continues to grow very fast and has set itself a goal of break $10 billion in annual sales, which would put Supermicro behind only Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on par with Inspur, and ahead of
Since the advent of the X86 server market thirty years ago, Supermicro has been unique among its server making peers in a number of ways. …
Sponsored Post: It could be time to start examining our growing reliance on public cloud platforms. …
If we are ever going to know what affect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the IT sector, we have to keep track of what was going on before the outbreak started to hit us hard in the first quarter of 2020. …
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