Cloud
Microsoft Is More Dependent On OpenAI Than The Converse
Everyone is jumpy about how much capital expenses Microsoft has on the books in 2025 and what it expects to spend on datacenters and their hardware in 2026. …
Windows Server
AI
Azure Can’t Make Up For On Premises Profit Decline At Microsoft
If you think it might be difficult to sell companies general purpose servers when they are frenzied about GenAI and trying to figure out how to get GPU-accelerated systems, you ought to try to convince the same companies to upgrade to Windows Server 2025, which launched last November. …
Compute
Mixed Results For The Datacenter Thundering Thirteen In Q4
We have been tracking the financial results for the big players in the datacenter that are public companies for three and a half decades, but starting last year we started dicing and slicing the numbers for the largest IT suppliers for stuff that goes into datacenters so we can give you a better sense what is and what is not happening out there. …
Compute
Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve
Containers have been getting a lot of attention in the enterprise over the past several years, thanks to them being an enabling technology for greater operational agility, especially in developing customer-facing applications and getting the code into production with greater speed. …
Cloud
Windows Server Comes To ARM Chips, But Only For Azure
The rumors have been running around for years, and they turned out to be true. …
Control
Looking Through the Windows at HPC OS Trends
High performance computing (HPC) is traditionally considered the domain of large, purpose built machines running some *nix operating system (predominantly Linux in recent years). …
Compute
Windows Server 2016: End Of One Era, Start Of Another
What constitutes an operating system changes with the work a system performs and the architecture that defines how that work is done. …