Datacenters Are Hungry For Servers Again
Server consumption is a pretty good proxy for how enterprises of all shapes and sizes feel about their particular business. …
Server consumption is a pretty good proxy for how enterprises of all shapes and sizes feel about their particular business. …
Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …
It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …
It had to happen sooner or later, and really, the wonder is that it hasn’t already happened, given the nature of the infrastructure buildouts at hyperscalers and cloud builders, the skittishness of enterprises due to the trade war between the United States and China, the uncertainty in Europe over the British exit, and general concern with macroeconomic issues because it has now been almost twelve years since the last recession. …
In any chip design, the devil – and the angel – is always in the details. …
It has been a long time coming: The day when AMD can put a processor up against any Xeon that Intel can deliver and absolutely compete on technology, price, predictability of availability, and consistency of roadmap looking ahead. …
The IT industry is all about evolution, building on what’s been done in the past to address the demands of the future. …
You know the world is a different place when shipping 2.58 million servers in a quarter feels like a slowdown, a disappointment, and perhaps a leading indicator of an overall economic slowdown in the world. …
The market for servers used to be a lot more predictable in the past, with a portion of the tens millions of companies worldwide buying machinery in their own cycles that more or less coincided with the global gross domestic product. …
With the launch of the “Cascade Lake” processors, the second generation of its Xeon SP family of server CPUs, the fullness of the “Purley” server platform that we heard about way back in 2015 is finally being delivered. …
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