Big Blue Aims For The Sky With Power9
Intel has the kind of control in the datacenter that only one vendor in the history of data processing has ever enjoyed. …
Intel has the kind of control in the datacenter that only one vendor in the history of data processing has ever enjoyed. …
Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. …
Big Blue does not participate in any meaningful sense in the booming market for infrastructure for the massive hyperscale and public cloud buildout that is transforming the face of the IT business. …
The server cycle has some long waves that are not always in phase with each other, and that is generally a good thing. …
As we have noted over the last year in particular, GPUs are set for another tsunami of use cases for server workloads in high performance computing and most recently, machine learning. …
There is no question that the memory hierarchy in systems is being busted wide open and that new persistent memory technology that can be byte addressable like DRAM or block addressable like storage are going to radically change the architecture of machines and the software that runs on them. …
Letting go of infrastructure is hard, but once you do – or perhaps more precisely, once you can – picking it back up again is a whole lot harder. …
More than anything else, over its long history in the computing business, IBM has been a platform company and say what you will about the woes it has had through several phases of its history, what seems obvious is that when Big Blue forgets this it runs into trouble. …
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. …
There are two things that underdogs have to do to take a big bite out of a market. …
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