Compute
Server And Storage Spending Moves The Sticks Out Through 2026
There is a very interesting technical side to IT infrastructure, which we are obviously very keen on exploring here at The Next Platform. …
Storage
Compute
Lenovo Plays The Long Game, Not The Wrong Game, In Systems
It has been nearly four decades since the Chinese Academy of Sciences handed Liu Chuanzhi and Danny Lui $25,000 to help found Legend, originally a maker of TV sets that, in the wake of the success of the IBM PC and the Apple II computer, decided maybe becoming a maker of PCs was a better idea. …
Cloud
Nothing Cloudy About The Outlook For Infrastructure Spending
Here is a question for you: If hypervisors are going to eventually be offloaded to a DPU attached to the server node by a PCI-Express link, is the server considered bare metal or virtualized? …
Compute
Xeon D Refresh: The Little Hyperscale Engine That Could
The datacenter server has been the center of gravity for compute for decades. …
Cloud
As 2021 Wound Down, Big Clouds Did Record Spending On Infrastructure
The gradual trend of IT organizations spending more on dedicated or shared cloud infrastructure than they do on non-cloudy gear continues its inevitable, glacial transformation. …
Cloud
The Slow But Tectonic Shifts In Datacenter Infrastructure
One of the more interesting trends in infrastructure that we try to get a handle on every once in a while is how much of the server and storage capacity is being deployed in bare metal, standalone fashion and how much is being sold to run utility style, cloud environments. …
Cloud
Cloud Is The Dominant Platform Consumption Model – So What?
If The Next Platform is about anything, it is about chronicling the tectonic changes that affect the IT landscape. …
Compute
A Tale Of Two Enterprise IT Beasties
The so-called “Magnificent 7” or “Super 8” hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world may comprise a substantial slice of worldwide sales of servers, storage, and networking, and the cloud capacity and hyperscale services they provide may in turn represent a significant – but nowhere near dominant – chunk of overall IT spending. …
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. …
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. …