HPC
Pawsey Finds I/O Sweet Spots for Data-Intensive Supercomputing
When it comes to data-intensive supercomputing, few centers have the challenges Pawsey Supercomputing Centre faces. …
Storage
Cloud
Google And Dell Pave The Way For File Data In The Cloud
A year ago, Dell Technologies made a significant push deeper into the fast-growing hybrid cloud space, unveiling its Dell Technologies Cloud initiative that includes hybrid cloud platforms that take advantage of the tight integration of technologies from Dell and VMware, which is majority owned by the larger company. …
Compute
IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection
The Great Infection is unique among recessions in that it is essentially a self-imposed economic downturn, not the result of over-exuberance or excess optimism or greed, but by a spikey ball of fat that is not alive but is more like a self-replicating biological machine that only knows how to do one thing: Copy itself if it reaches the right sticky environment in time before it dries out and falls apart. …
Edge
Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge
In the ever-evolving landscape that is the edge, applications are the driving force. …
Compute
The Serious Business Of Being A Server OEM
Not everybody is a hyperscaler or large public cloud builder, and no two companies are happier about that than Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the two largest original equipment manufacturers in the world for servers and storage and also the two companies that chased plenty of sales at these webscale datacenter operators in years gone by but which have learned, of necessity, to walk away from deals where they can’t make money or even lose money. …
Compute
Intel Fills In The First Half Server Pothole – And Then Some
Let’s face it. Given how poorly the server market was doing in the final quarter of 2018 and the first two quarters of 2019, we had no idea how well or poorly 2019 might end up for Intel’s Data Center Group and the server industry at large. …
Cloud
For Whom The Dell Toils
It has been nearly five years since Michael Dell lined up $24 billion in cash to take the IT company that bears his name private, and it has been nearly four years since Dell announced its mammoth $67 billion deal to acquire enterprise storage maker EMC and its server virtualization minion, VMware. …
HPC
Exascale Storage Gets a GPU Boost
Alex St. John is a familiar name in the GPU and gaming industry given his role at Microsoft in the creation of DirectX technology in the 90s. …
Compute
HPE Hunkers Down On Datacenter Hardware
Any aspirations that the Hewlett-Packard that we knew for nearly a decade and a half to build a conglomerate that resembled IBM in its own former enterprise breadth and depth of software, services, and systems is now over with the company spinning out its Enterprise Services business and focusing very tightly on its core hardware and related software businesses. …
Cloud
How This Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs By A Quarter
In yet another example of how distributed systems sometimes work better than centralized ones, the hardware engineers at Microsoft have come up with a new battery-backed power supply for their homegrown servers that allows for massive – and expensive – battery rooms to be eliminated from the cloud giant’s datacenters. …