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Only The Agile And Adaptable Survive

November 1, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 1

Red Hat is not just the top Linux software vendor and the driving force behind IBM’s hybrid cloud ambitions. …

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The Ever-Reddening Revenue Streams Of Big Blue

October 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

October 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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. …

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Can IBM Get Back Into HPC With Power10?

July 12, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

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. …

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Why Nvidia Should Acquire SUSE

March 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Here we are, on the Friday before the flagship GPU Technology Conference hosted by Nvidia is set to kick off. …

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IBM Bets Big On Native Inference With Big Iron

August 23, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

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. …

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IBM Starts Showing A Little Hybrid Vigor

July 20, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

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. …

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Nobody Owns Linux, But You Can Pay For It – Or Not

December 10, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 13

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. …

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The Tension That Drives Innovation In Linux

May 8, 2019 Jeffrey Burt 0

With any operating system, there is a tension between leaving something that is stable and that works alone and adding new features to keep it relevant. …

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Playing The Long Game In Systems

January 23, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The secret to the longevity of any big corporation is a nearly constant process of reinvention. …

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