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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. …
Linux
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. …
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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. …
Compute
IBM Bets Big On Native Inference With Big Iron
Everyone knows that machine learning inference is going to be a big deal for commercial applications in the years ahead, but no one is precisely sure how much inference is going to be needed. …
Compute
IBM Starts Showing A Little Hybrid Vigor
IBM may not be the biggest provider of systems in terms of the size of its customer base, but of the top 5,000 or so companies worldwide that are not hyperscalers and cloud builders in their own right, Big Blue does have a sizeable share of the system budget. …
Compute
Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not
There is nothing quite like the open source community to demonstrate the principles of freedom, democracy, and meritocracy – and the difficulties of bringing those principles to bear and keeping them pure when money is involved. …