Compute
The Vital Engines Of Commerce
It took a very, very long time, but if current conditions persist, we could see a server market that rakes in more than $100 billion next year. …
IDC
Cloud
Are Hyperscalers And Clouds Builders Smashing Up An IT Pangea?
There are times when tectonic forces are at work in the IT world. …
Connect
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. …
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. …