Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Intel has a lot at stake with its oneAPI software stack. …
oneAPI 2023: One Plug-In To Run Them All was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Three years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first major hardware and software infrastructure vendor to announce plans to make its entire portfolio available as a service, setting 2022 as the deadline for making that happen. …
For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Since Pat Gelsinger’s return to Intel as chief executive officer in early 2021, the company has bet big on bolstering its manufacturing processes and foundry business, expanded its fab footprint in the United States, and advocated for expanding the country’s chip making capabilities. …
Intel Chip Research Pushes Power Efficiency And Performance was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The HPC industry, after years of discussions and anticipation and some relatively minor delays, is now fully in the era of exascale computing, with the United States earlier this year standing up Frontier, its first such supercomputer, and plans for two more next year. …
US and EU Pushing Ahead With Exascale, China Efforts Remains Shrouded was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The need for high-powered computing isn’t going away. Enterprises trying to corral the massive amounts of data they’re generating and adopting emerging technologies like machine learning are demanding the sort of HPC capabilities that not too long ago were reserved for research and educational institutions. …
Dell Wants To Put HPC And Quantum Into More Hands was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Everything looked normal. An audience of company executives and employees, journalists, and analysts staring at the brightly lit stage as the chief executive officer strode from one side to the other boasting of a chip’s performance and power efficiency, the advanced technologies that went into making it, and the marked advantages it held over the best the competition had to offer. …
The Acute Role Reversal For AMD And Intel In Datacenter Compute was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It’s no secret that the hyperscalers and cloud builders are becoming the biggest drivers of the datacenter hardware portion of the IT market. …
HPC Follows The Enterprise Into The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In the ongoing discussions about the still-evolving world of hybrid cloud, the focus tends to be on what enterprises are doing within their own on-premises datacenters – and private clouds – and their work with public cloud players like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. …
Co-Location Plays A Big Role In Hybrid Cloud, Too was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Red Hat is not just the top Linux software vendor and the driving force behind IBM’s hybrid cloud ambitions. …
Only The Agile And Adaptable Survive was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Selling hardware into the modern datacenter is no easy feat, particularly when the needs of hyperscalers and enterprises have long since diverged. …
Cisco Figures Out How To Sell Switches To Hyperscalers And Enterprises Alike was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The datacenter is becoming hyperdistributed and incorporating some multiple of capacity – 2X, 3X, 4X, or maybe 10X – outside of the traditional datacenter walls because applications and storage live increasingly at the edge. …
The Edge Is The New Frontier For IT was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Being in the cloud business is difficult and expensive – even for a rich company like Google. …
Number Three Has To Work Very Hard In The Cloud was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In emerging computing fields like quantum computing and neuromorphic computing, hardware usually grabs the lion’s share of attention. …
Software, Not Hardware, Will Drive Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger came into this week’s Intel Innovation 2022 conference less than two years into his plans to reshape the giant chip maker to fit into an IT world that is rapidly becoming more open, more cooperative, and more software-driven. …
Gelsinger Is Still Trying To Build The Next Intel was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In these modern IT days – where the rapidly-evolving environment stretches from the datacenter to the cloud and edge, with a range of hyperscale cloud providers and myriad clusters to choose from – what is increasingly important when creating and running workloads is portability. …
Building Software Bridges To Ensure Workload Portability was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
While the COVID-19 pandemic still has a grip on the world –the global seven-day average number of deaths was at 1,660 this past week – the chaotic days of early 2020 seem to get smaller in the review mirror. …
The Pandemic Spawns Multi-Vendor Networks In Its Wake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Before founding software-defined networking startup PlumGrid and then moving to VMware when it bought his company in 2016, Pere Monclus spent almost 12 years with Cisco Systems at a time when while much of enterprise networking was still in the corporate datacenter, the shift to network virtualization and the migration to the cloud were getting underway. …
The Network Binds The Increasingly Distributed Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The modern enterprise IT environment is a sprawling, widely distributed, multi-tentacled beast that encompasses not only the traditional datacenter but multiple public clouds, private clouds, colocation facilities, telecommunications sites, and the edge. …
VMware Wants To Erase The Lines Between Datacenter, Cloud, And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
It is hard to say how many Xeon and Xeon SP CPU sales have been obliterated by Nvidia GPUs, but the number is a big one. …
Intel Hopes To Accelerate Datacenter And Edge With A Slew Of Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
AI is arguably the most important kind of HPC in the world right now in terms of providing immediate results for immediate problems, and particularly for enterprises with lots of data and a desire to make money in a new economy that does not fit models and forecasts before the coronavirus pandemic. …
Making AI Run At Any Scale But Not At All Costs was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.