
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
It’s been just more than a decade since Arm executives began to talk about bringing the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, which has long been the dominant design for processors found in billions of smartphones and other mobile device, into the datacenter. …
Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The challenge of managing data is growing faster than the data itself is piling up, and that is bad except for the companies that can create new tools to manage it, either to use internally as the hyperscalers do or to sell to those who cannot fund such development and count on vendors to do it. …
Bulking Up The File System for A World Of Clouds And Edges was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In a short time, the edge has become the crucial third leg holding up the IT stool, joining traditional on-premises datacenters and the public clouds. …
Supermicro Plants A Flag At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The growing number of and installations for all-flash storage arrays is hard to ignore. …
Sticking With Disks In An Increasingly All-Flash World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Enterprise IT continues to cast its attentions – and sometimes its aspersions – out to the edge, that place outside of traditional datacenters and beyond that cloud where data is increasingly being generated and processed. …
The Continuum From Edges To Datacenters was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When talking about high-end HPC systems in the world, much of the attention often is paid to the massive supercomputers that are being developed by the likes of system makers Cray (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the main contractor on two exascale systems), Fujitsu, Atos, IBM, and others along with component makers Intel (which is a primary contractor on one exascale system), AMD, and Nvidia. …
The Softer Side Of Exascale was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There are two major opposing forces in the datacenter that create tension in IT budgets. …
The Fundamental Disconnect Between Software Pricing And Moore’s Law was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The term “AIOps” is getting a lot of work these days, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise. …
Sparking The Gap Between AI And DevOps was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, generated a lot of buzz recently with an op-ed he wrote for the The Financial Times calling for greater regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, adding a high-profile voice into a debate that has been simmering as innovation around AI, machine learning and deep learning have advanced rapidly. …
The Debate Over Regulating AI Ramps Up was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
When talking about auto racing, everything eventually boils down to speed. …
Dallara Races To The Future Of HPC was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Amazon Web Services is at the top of an expanding mountain, the dominant player in a public cloud services space that is expected to push past $200 billion in revenue this year and make its way well beyond $300 billion by 2022. …
AWS Works Hard To Keep Ahead Of The Public Cloud Herd was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Nvidia has for years made artificial intelligence (AI) and its various subsets – such as machine learning and deep learning – a foundation of future growth and sees it as a competitive advantage against rival Intel and a growing crop of smaller chip maker and newcomers looking to gain traction in a rapidly evolving IT environment. …
Nvidia Moves Clara Healthcare AI To The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
During the Intel AI Summit earlier this month where the company demonstrated its initial processors for artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, Naveen Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, spoke about the rapid pace of evolution in the AI space that also includes machine learning and deep learning. …
Keeping Pace In A Fast-Moving AI Space was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Traditional datacenter infrastructure suppliers have a complicated relationship with the cloud. …
Putting On Demand Price Tags On Datacenter Gear was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For much of the decade, a debate around Arm was whether it would fulfill its promise to become a silicon designer with suppliers of any significance to datacenter hardware. …
Attacking The Datacenter From The Edge Inward was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
A few years ago, about two dozen Oracle employees began work in downtown office space in Seattle to start mapping out how to make the enterprise software giant and occasional system maker a competitive player in a crowded public cloud space that is dominated by the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and also includes a host of other high-profile companies, from Google to Salesforce to IBM. …
Oracle Chases A Huge HPC Opportunity In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The image of Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang pacing across the stage at a tech conference and talking about his company’s latest new markets for artificial intelligence, the latest partnerships with high-profile vendors, and looking into the near horizon for Nvidia’s next revenue stream has become a familiar one. …
Nvidia Pushes AI Out To The Edge, Where 5G Is Waiting was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
After more than two decades with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Darren Cepulis came to Arm in 2013, becoming part of the small cadre of people working in the chip designer’s high-performance computing (HPC) business. …
Growing Up In An HPC World was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As readers of The Next Platform know, the edge – that area where the rapidly growing numbers of mobile, intelligent and connected devices live, running applications and generating mountains of data – is where a lot of the IT action is these days. …
Pushing Security From The Datacenter Out To The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
For more than two decades, DirectData Networks has focused on HPC storage, supplying large systems to enterprises and research institutions wrestling with complex and data-laden workloads and taking on such challenges as acquiring the Lustre File System from Intel in 2018. …
DDN Uses Acquisitions to Grow In The Enterprise was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.