Cloud
Oracle Takes The Whole Nvidia AI Stack For Its Cloud
The top hyperscalers and clouds are rich enough to build out infrastructure on a global scale and create just about any kind of platform they feel like. …
Oracle
Compute
Ampere’s IPO Filing Signals More Arm Cash And More Arm Scrutiny
There is a likelihood that we could see both British chip designer Arm Holdings and one of its server-focused startup adherents, Ampere Computing, go public this year, as indicated by recent rumors of the first and news from Ampere itself this morning that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. …
Compute
The Ghosts Of Itanium – And HPC – Give HPE Long Sought Profits
It may have taken the better part of a decade, but the Itanium platform has yielded the kinds of profits that Hewlett Packard Enterprise long sought and rarely attained. …
Compute
Oracle Still Hanging In There With Exadata Engineered Systems
It may not seem like it, but Oracle is still in the high-end server business, at least when it comes to big machines running its eponymous relational database. …
Store
Pushing Cloud MySQL Performance The Oracle Way
Managing MySQL databases in the cloud is no easy chore, according to Steve Zivanic, vice president of database and autonomous services at Oracle. …
AI
Ampere Computing Buys An AI Inference Performance Leap
Machine learning inference models have been running on X86 server processors from the very beginning of the latest – and by far the most successful – AI revolution, and the techies that know both hardware and software down to the minutest detail at the hyperscalers, cloud builders, and semiconductor manufacturers have been able to tune the software, jack the hardware, and retune for more than a decade. …
Compute
The Prospects For An Arm Server Insurrection
If you want to break into datacenter compute in a sustainable way, it takes the patience of a glacier. …
Compute
Navigating Through The Roiling Datacenter Waters
For a long time, datacenter compute has been the very picture of stability – Intel-based servers running enterprise workloads in central facilities. …
HPC
Oracle Makes Its Prognostications For HPC In The Cloud
For Karan Batta, the much-talked-about wide adoption of cloud computing in the HPC space is really like a game of dominos. …
Compute
The Battle For Enterprise Compute Begins In The Cloud
If the hyperscalers are a crystal ball in which we see the far-off future of compute, storage, and networking writ large and ahead of the mainstream, then the public cloud builders are a mirror in which we see the more immediate needs and desires of enterprises. …