Cloud
Microsoft, Stanford Researchers Tweak Cloud Economics Framework
Cloud computing makes a lot of sense for a rapidly growing number of larger enterprises and other organizations, and for any number of reasons. …
Microsoft
Cloud
Microsoft Azure Goes Back To Rack Servers With Project Olympus
The thing we hear time and time again from the hyperscalers is that technology is a differentiator, but supply chain can make or break them. …
Cloud
How Microsoft Fell Hard for FPGAs
Microsoft’s embrace of programmable chips knowns as FPGAs is well documented. …
Compute
Windows Server 2016: End Of One Era, Start Of Another
What constitutes an operating system changes with the work a system performs and the architecture that defines how that work is done. …
Compute
A Rare Tour Of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters
If you want to study how datacenter design has changed over the past two decades, a good place to visit is Quincy, Washington. …
Cloud
The Inevitability Of Private Public Clouds
Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. …
Compute
In-Memory Breathes New Life Into NUMA
Hyperscalers and the academics that often do work with them have invented a slew of distributed computing methods and frameworks to get around the problem of scaling up shared memory systems based on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or non-uniform memory access (NUMA) techniques that have been in the systems market for decades. …
Connect
Datacenters To Get A High Fiber Bandwidth Diet
Might doesn’t make right, but it sure does help. The hyperscalers, cloud builders, and co-location datacenters of the world that operate at massive scale have an interconnectivity problem, and it has nothing to do with the feeds and speeds of a switch. …
Cloud
Microsoft’s Embrace Of Linux Extends Its Reach
If you have not figured it out yet, this is not your grandfather’s Microsoft. …
Cloud
Microsoft’s Open Compute Gambit Pays Off
Just because computing and storage are commodities does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that they are inexpensive. …