AI
Inside The Infrastructure That Microsoft Builds To Run AI
Like the rest of the world, we have been watching Microsoft’s increasing use of foundation models as it transforms its services and software. …
Microsoft
Connect
Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022
The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …
Compute
What Do We Do When Compute And Memory Stop Getting Cheaper?
The IT industry, like every other industry we suppose, is in a constant state of dealing with the next bottleneck. …
Connect
Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking
Thanks to the ubiquity of the X86 server platform, the Kubernetes container controller, and the KVM server virtualization hypervisor, it is relatively easy to compute like a hyperscaler or cloud builder. …
Connect
Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High
A massive buildout of infrastructure is happening within the datacenter walls of at least several of the hyperscalers and large clouds in the world if the financial results of Arista Networks, the upstart switch maker that has been taking on Cisco Systems in the datacenter with machines based on merchant silicon for more than a decade. …
Cloud
Cloud Builders Navigate A Sea Of Economic Uncertainty
In recent years, when the economy became unstable, enterprises tended to look to the cloud as a safe haven. …
Cloud
Google Follows Suit With Microsoft On Ampere Arm Instances
A long time ago, when we first started The Next Platform, Urs Hölzle, then senior vice president of the Technical Infrastructure team at Google, told us that to gain a 20 percent improvement in price/performance it would absolutely change from the X86 architecture to Power architecture – or indeed any other architecture – and even for one generation of machines. …
Store
Microsoft Azure Blazes The Disaggregated Memory Trail With zNUMA
Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
AI
Once Again, Meta Buys Rather Than Builds A Supercomputer
For a company that has been so enthusiastic about designing and building its own infrastructure and datacenters, Meta Platforms, the parent company to Facebook as well as WhatsApp and Instagram and one of the champions of the metaverse virtual reality a lot of us first read about in Burning Chrome, sure has not been building its own AI supercomputers lately. …
Compute
The Looming Arm Server Battle Between AWS And Microsoft
Wouldn’t it be funny if Google ends up being the stalwart supporter of the X86 architecture among the hyperscalers and cloud builders? …