AI
GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line
The AI era has a much different vibe than prior eras in the IT industry. …
Linux
Compute
Mixed Results For The Datacenter Thundering Thirteen In Q4
We have been tracking the financial results for the big players in the datacenter that are public companies for three and a half decades, but starting last year we started dicing and slicing the numbers for the largest IT suppliers for stuff that goes into datacenters so we can give you a better sense what is and what is not happening out there. …
Control
The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System
Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there are really only a handful of commercially viable operating systems. …
Code
Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?
Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. …
Compute
IBM Starts Walking The Hybrid Cloud And AI Talking
If Big Blue is going to talk the hybrid cloud and AI talk, as it seems to do incessantly, then the company has to walk it. …
Compute
Only The Agile And Adaptable Survive
Red Hat is not just the top Linux software vendor and the driving force behind IBM’s hybrid cloud ambitions. …
Compute
The Ever-Reddening Revenue Streams Of Big Blue
Speaking in generalities across any aspect of history is always risky, but that is what the job of history is. …
Connect
After Long Last, A Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System
It is perplexing to us that the world’s largest distributor of client and server operating systems and also the creator of the Linux-based, open source SONiC network operating system – that would be Microsoft with its Windows and Windows Server franchises – did not see the benefit or the need to commercialize SONiC and lead the open networking revolution. …
Compute
Can IBM Get Back Into HPC With Power10?
The “Cirrus” Power10 processor from IBM, which we codenamed for Big Blue because it refused to do it publicly and because we understand the value of a synonym here at The Next Platform, shipped last September in the “Denali” Power E1080 big iron NUMA machine. …
Control
Why Nvidia Should Acquire SUSE
Here we are, on the Friday before the flagship GPU Technology Conference hosted by Nvidia is set to kick off. …