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The Old Switcheroo
The cost of servers keeps going up and up, thanks in large part to memory, flash, and GPU prices rising as too much demand chases too little supply and also due in part to the rising cost of processors. …
IDC
Cloud
The Booming Server Market In The Wake Of Skylake
The slowdown in server sales ahead of Intel’s July launch of the “Skylake” Xeon SP was real, and if the figures from the third quarter of this year are any guide, then it looks like that slump is over. …
Cloud
Custom Server Makers Set The Datacenter Pace
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. …
HPC
The Business Of HPC Is Evolving
With most of the year finished and a new one coming up fast, and a slew of new compute and networking technologies ramping for the past year and more on the horizon for a very exciting 2017, now is the natural time to take stock of what has happened in the HPC business and what is expected to happen in the coming years. …
Compute
HPC Spending Outpaces The IT Market, And Will Continue To
Sales of HPC systems were a lot brisker in 2015 than anticipated, and according to the latest prognostications from the market researchers at IDC presented from the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany this week, growth in the HPC sector will continue to outpace that of the overall IT market for many years to come. …
Cloud
Hyperscalers, Enterprises Pull Back On Server Spending
The server cycle has some long waves that are not always in phase with each other, and that is generally a good thing. …
Compute
China Lays The Chip Foundation For Its Next Platform
It would be far beyond the purview of The Next Platform to have deep insight to the complexity, scope, and scale of the Chinese economy. …
Compute
Custom Servers Cool, Custom Storage White Hot
If the server and storage markets are bellwethers for the underlying strength of the economy, as we at The Next Platform believe, then the global economy has been perhaps more healthy than other indicators might have been pointing to. …
Cloud
Why Cloud Is Taking Over Datacenter Spending
While there are plenty of companies that have built a core competency in IT infrastructure acquisition and management, and think they can provide themselves a competitive edge based on those skills, it looks like there is a growing and potentially much larger cadre of companies who simply do not want to be messing around with basic infrastructure anymore. …
Cloud
Hyperscale, Cloud Drive Infrastructure Capacity Up, Prices Down
If you think that the giants of the hyperscale and cloud world have a hankering for minimalist, custom servers forged by original design manufacturers, you should see the appetites they have for their storage gear–it is a lot larger perhaps than many realize. …