ARM And AMD X86 Server Chips Get Mainstream Lift From Microsoft
If you want real competition among vendors who supply stuff to you, then sometimes you have to make it happen by yourself. …
If you want real competition among vendors who supply stuff to you, then sometimes you have to make it happen by yourself. …
Cloud computing makes a lot of sense for a rapidly growing number of larger enterprises and other organizations, and for any number of reasons. …
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. …
Microsoft’s embrace of programmable chips knowns as FPGAs is well documented. …
What constitutes an operating system changes with the work a system performs and the architecture that defines how that work is done. …
If you want to study how datacenter design has changed over the past two decades, a good place to visit is Quincy, Washington. …
Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. …
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. …
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. …
If you have not figured it out yet, this is not your grandfather’s Microsoft. …
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