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Intel partners for $30B fab investment in Arizona

Intel and Canada's Brookfield Asset Management have announced a deal to jointly fund up to $30 billion in investments of Intel fabrication facilities in Arizona, saving Intel a lot of money in the process.The investment follows up on a memorandum of understanding the two firms signed in February to explore finance options to help fund new Intel manufacturing sites. Brookfield will invest up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in the expansion project, while Intel will retain majority ownership and operating control of the two chip factories in Chandler, Arizona.The deal falls under what is known as the Semiconductor Co-Investment Program (SCIP), a new funding model to the capital-intensive semiconductor industry. As part of the program, Brookfield will provide Intel with a new, expanded pool of capital for manufacturing build-outs. In return, Brookfield gets a cut of the revenue stream.To read this article in full, please click here

VMware, IBM expand joint options for hybrid cloud

VMware and IBM are widening the scope of their 20-year partnership to offer joint customers in regulated industries a secure path to hybrid cloud. Their plans include co-engineered cloud solutions that are aimed at helping companies in industries such as financial services, healthcare, and the public-sector to reduce the cost and risk placing mission-critical workloads in a hybrid environment.“Roughly 25% of workloads within enterprises have moved to cloud," said Hillery Hunter, an IBM Fellow and vice president and CTO of IBM Cloud. "That may be smaller than some people expect, but it’s an even lower number in regulated industries. Analysts have estimates as low as 5% to 13% for highly regulated organizations like banks. This means that modernization remains very much a timely topic."To read this article in full, please click here

Qualcomm planning ARM-based server processor?

Qualcomm may be preparing for another run that the data-center market with a new line of Arm-based processors for servers, according Bloomberg.The company is reportedly seeking customers to test a product from Nuvia, a semiconductor startup it purchased last year that was founded by the former head of Apple CPU development. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]To read this article in full, please click here

Verge.io adds GPU virtualization to its HCI software

Verge.io, formerly known as Yottabyte, has added GPU virtualization to its virtual data-center software, making it possible to partition out GPU-based processing tasks the same way a hypervisor divides up a CPU.Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) builds a tightly integrated and configured IT data center setup from standard server, storage, and networking servers with everything virtualized. Verge.io’s software, called Verge-OS, goes on step further by partitioning the pooled resources into what it calls virtual data centers (VDCs). From one big pool can come many VDCs made up of different hardware and software configurations.To read this article in full, please click here

What are data centers? How they work and how they are changing in size and scope

A data center is the physical facility providing the compute power to run applications, the storage capabilities to process data, and the networking to connect employees with the resources needed to do their jobs.Experts have been predicting that the on-premises data center will be replaced by cloud-based alternatives, but many organizations have concluded that they will always have applications that need to live on-premises. Rather than dying, the data center is evolving.It is becoming more distributed, with edge data centers springing up to process IoT data. It is being modernized to operate more efficiently through technologies like virtualization and containers. It is adding cloud-like features such as self-service. And the on-prem data center is integrating with cloud resources in a hybrid model.To read this article in full, please click here

Microsoft extends Azure server lifetimes by 50%

Cloud service providers have been on a hardware spending spree for years, deploying hundreds of thousands of servers as they build out data centers the size of football stadiums as fast as they can.But the party may be ending. On its recent earnings call with financial analysts, Microsoft announced plans to extend the lifespan of its cloud servers from four years to six years. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] CFO Amy Hood said the reason for the longer deployments is due to "increased efficiencies in how we operate our server and network equipment as well as advances in technology have resulted in lives extending beyond historical accounting useful lives."To read this article in full, please click here

24 ways to check the status of files using if commands on Linux

There are a lot more ways to check files using if commands than many of us realize. Although this information is included in the bash man page, that man page has thousands of lines and you could easily find yourself paging down more than 100 times to reach it.This post, provides information on each option and examples for some of the most useful ones. [ Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] Checking if a file exists One of the most commonly used tests for checking on files is if [ -f filename ]. This test will result in true if the file exists and is a regular file—not a directory or a symbolic link. You might use it like this:To read this article in full, please click here

What is CXL, and why should you care?

If you purchase a server in the next few months featuring Intel’s Sapphire Rapids generation of Xeon Scalable processor or AMD’s Genoa generation of Epyc processors, they will come with a notable new function called Compute Express Link (CXL)—an open interconnect standard you may find useful, especially in future iterations.CXL is supported by pretty much every hardware vendor and built on top of PCI Express for coherent memory access between a CPU and a device, such as a hardware accelerator, or a CPU and memory.PCIe is meant for point-to-point communications such as SSD to memory, but CXL will eventually support one-to-many communication by transmitting over coherent protocols. So far, CXL is capable of simple point-to-point communication only.To read this article in full, please click here

How to find files on Linux and make it easy to find them again

The cd command makes it easy to switch to another directory on Liniux, but only if you know where you’re heading. In this post, I discuss a couple of tricks for moving between known locations and provide a script for finding and “remembering” files or locations that you might want to reuse.One of the easiest things to do with the cd command is return to your home directory regardless of where you are sitting in the file system at the moment. Just type cd by itself, and you’ll be back in your home directory. Typing cd ~ will do the same thing, though adding the tilde won’t get you there any faster.To read this article in full, please click here

The simplicity and complexity of using quotes on Linux

There are only a few special characters involved in working with character strings on the command line or in a script on Linux: the single quote, the double quote and the backslash. But the rules aren’t as obvious as one might think. In this post, we’ll look at the easy and the somewhat tricky uses of these special characters.Echoing text The echo command doesn’t require any variety of quote characters much of the time. You can echo a phrase like this without bothering with quotes of any kind.To read this article in full, please click here

Using the watch command on Linux

Watch is a command on Linux that will repeatedly run commands for you, and it offers some very useful options. One of its basic options is that you can tell watch how long to wait before running the specified command again. For example, if you run the command watch -n 10 date, the watch command will first clear the screen and run the date command right away. After that, it will run the command every 10 seconds until you stop it by hitting control-C. Note that the first line on the screen will indicate the wait time between iterations (every 10 seconds).$ watch -n 10 date Every 10.0s: date fedora: Fri, Aug 12 16:32:09 EDT 2022 Fri Aug 12 04:10:11 PM EDT 2022 The -n option specifies the number of seconds between commands. The default is 2. You might have to look closely to notice the changes in the output.To read this article in full, please click here

What are virtual routers and how can they lead to virtual data centers?

OK, you’re a CIO and when you go down to the data center, you see racks of routers, each with a maze of cabling.  When you hear “virtual routers” you think of all of that gone, replaced by mystical router instances floating about somewhere in the ether, and you smile.Or you’re a CFO who gets a bill for hundreds of branch routers, each picking your pocket on service charges and maybe software licenses.  You hear “virtual routers” and think of all those little hands going out of your pocket, and you smile.To read this article in full, please click here

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