People control the purse strings for datacenter budgets, at least for the time being until CFOs are replaced by algorithms, and that is one of the reasons why it is hard to predict precisely what enterprise, hyperscale, HPC, and cloud organizations will do in any given quarter when it comes to spending on infrastructure. …
With the sale of its System x division to Lenovo Group last fall and the winding down of its BlueGene massively parallel computing line, IBM lost a lot of its market presence in the high performance computing space. …
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
The “Knights Landing” Xeon Phi processor from Intel will be shipping by the end of the year and ramping in volume through 2016, and it is set to shake up the systems market in a number of significant ways. …
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. …
The Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan is the traditional place where Intel has put out its Xeon E3 processors for diminutive and graphics-accelerated servers, and this week the chip maker is indeed rolling out a variant of this chip using its “Broadwell” cores. …
The server space was a-buzz this weekend with what looks like a big leak of Intel’s future Xeon processor and chipset roadmaps for the next couple of generations of machines. …
Intel still has one more processor to get out the door to complete the “Haswell” generation, with the impending Xeon E5-4600 v3 for low-end, four-socket machines. …
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