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Will Open Compute Backing Drive SIOV Adoption?

March 30, 2022 Daniel Robinson 1

Virtualization has been an engine of efficiency in the IT industry over the past two decades, decoupling workloads from the underlying hardware and thus allowing multiple workloads to be consolidated into a single physical system as well as moved around relatively easily with live migration of virtual machines. …

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How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training

March 25, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. …

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Open Compute Takes Root Outside Of Hyperscalers

March 19, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

When Facebook open sourced the hardware and datacenter designs of its very first homegrown datacenter in Prineville, Oregon nearly eight years ago, creating the Open Compute Project, it was an act of enlightened self-interest. …

Cloud

Open Compute Iron Is All About Acceleration

April 6, 2018 Paul Teich 4

The Open Compute Project (OCP) held its 9th annual US Summit recently, with 3,441 registered attendees this year. …

Compute

A Peek Inside Facebook’s Server Fleet Upgrade

March 13, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Having a proliferation of server makes and models over a span of years in the datacenter is not a huge deal for most enterprises. …

Cloud

Microsoft Azure Goes Back To Rack Servers With Project Olympus

November 1, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

Connect

Datacenters To Get A High Fiber Bandwidth Diet

March 18, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

Shiny New Open Compute Gear, And The Roadmap Ahead

March 13, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The Open Compute Project started by Facebook nearly five years ago is in many respects a tier one server maker a tier one server maker that just so happens to have multiple manufacturers etching motherboards and bending metal instead of one. …

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Inside The Systems That Drive Facebook

March 10, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Hyperscalers have hundreds of millions to more than a billion users, which requires infrastructure on a vast scale. …

Cloud

Microsoft’s Embrace Of Linux Extends Its Reach

March 10, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If you have not figured it out yet, this is not your grandfather’s Microsoft. …

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