
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
Author Archives: Jeffrey Burt
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.
When we last focused on Untether AI in 2021, the AI inferencing hardware startup had just secured $125 million in funding, which came a year after the company officially launched with its first-generation runAI200 devices and its unique at-memory inferencing approach. …
Untether AI Pulls the Curtain Rope For Its Next-Gen Inferencing System was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
This week marked this first time since 2012 that Pat Gelsinger has spoken at the annual Hot Chips conference. …
Gelsinger Sees Intel’s Foundry As The Future Of Chip Making was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
As more enterprises embrace hybrid and multicloud strategies and begin to extend their IT reach out to the edge, scale becomes an issue. …
Managing Infrastructure At Cloud Scale Without The Hyperscaler Propellerheads was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The network, once seen as little more than plumbing in the datacenter, is at the center of distributed IT operations. …
Moving Networks Forward With Digital Twins was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Chip design is as much of an art as it is an engineering feat. …
Using AI Chips To Design Better AI Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
In recent years, when the economy became unstable, enterprises tended to look to the cloud as a safe haven. …
Cloud Builders Navigate A Sea Of Economic Uncertainty was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Natural language processing has been an easy fit for these relatively early days of artificial intelligence. …
Nvidia Speeds Up Large Language Modeling was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Atos, for a long time a key IT services provider in Europe, stepped onto the HPC stage in a big way in 2014 when it bought systems maker Bull’s hardware business in $840 million, instantly making it a major supercomputer vendor on the continent. …
Atos Notches Up Another Win With “Pegaso” Supercomputer At Petrobras was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.