The Long Patience Of Lenovo Starts Paying Off In The Datacenter

It took a long, long time to convert the old IBM PC business acquired in 2004 into the dominant supplier of client devices in the world, but Lenovo is nothing but not patient and bypassed HP Inc in 2013 and has had the largest share of the market since that time. …

The Long Patience Of Lenovo Starts Paying Off In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

IBM Builds An AI Supercomputer On The Cheap In Its Cloud

By definition, a capability-class supercomputer means buying the best compute, storage, and networking available and getting high performance at just about any cost. …

IBM Builds An AI Supercomputer On The Cheap In Its Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Luminaries Argue For The Interconnect We Could Have Already Had

Here is an old saw that we bring out of the toolbox every now and then, and we use it just enough so it has never really gotten rusty and it can cut through a lot of crap to make a point: The datacenter, and perhaps all clients, would have been better off if InfiniBand had just become the ubiquitous I/O switched fabric standard it was designed to be back in the late 1990s. …

Luminaries Argue For The Interconnect We Could Have Already Had was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022

The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …

Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Hybrid Cloud Should Benefit You, Not Bezos

We have always been convinced, and remain so, that there is no way that the largest organizations in the world will move their computing to one of the big cloud builders. …

Hybrid Cloud Should Benefit You, Not Bezos was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS

Anybody who can read a financial report knows they are paying too much for compute, storage, networking, and software at Amazon Web Services. …

The On-Premises Empire Strikes Back At AWS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Supermicro Aspires To Be A $10 Billion Server Maker

Supermicro has always been an interesting IT supplier for the datacenter, and it is getting more interesting by the year as it continues to grow very fast and has set itself a goal of break $10 billion in annual sales, which would put Supermicro behind only Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on par with Inspur, and ahead of

Since the advent of the X86 server market thirty years ago, Supermicro has been unique among its server making peers in a number of ways. …

Supermicro Aspires To Be A $10 Billion Server Maker was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The First RISC-V Shot Across The Datacenter Bow

When it comes to operating systems and now CPU instruction sets, there is proprietary, there is licensable and modifiable with a standard base of functionality with room for some originality, and there is true open source. …

The First RISC-V Shot Across The Datacenter Bow was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Datacenter And Xilinx Power Through In Q4 And Beyond For AMD

Imagine, if you will, how troublesome AMD’s chip business would be at the end of 2022 had it not decided way back in 2015 to re-enter the datacenter with its Epyc processors. …

Datacenter And Xilinx Power Through In Q4 And Beyond For AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Systems Turn In A Good Year for Big Blue

You can’t turn back the hands of time, but if you are lucky enough in business, you can continue to find some modicum of relevance that outlasts your initial success and even adapt to new conditions as they inevitably and often unexpectedly change. …

Systems Turn In A Good Year for Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Intel’s Datacenter Business Goes From Bad To Worse, With Worst Still To Come

Everybody expected that Intel was going to turn in a pretty bad final quarter in 2022, and even before it posted its numbers yesterday after the market closed, there were plenty of signals that it was going to be worse. …

Intel’s Datacenter Business Goes From Bad To Worse, With Worst Still To Come was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Cloud Spending To Top $1 Trillion In Four Years

There is some uncertainty about global IT spending in the broadest sense in 2023 and beyond, and but Synergy Research, which watches the cloud segment like a hawk, is very bullish on cloud spending in its various guises. …

Cloud Spending To Top $1 Trillion In Four Years was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Kicking Up AI, Data Analytics, And Networking A Notch Or Two

Sponsored Feature: With each new successive generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, more and more of the workloads that might be otherwise offloaded to discrete accelerators or SmartNICs have been pulled back onto the processor socket – and often in a way that does not burden the CPU cores with running routines and algorithms implemented in software. …

Kicking Up AI, Data Analytics, And Networking A Notch Or Two was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Building The Perfect Memory Bandwidth Beast

If memory bandwidth is holding back the performance of some of your applications, and there is something that you can do about it other than to just suffer. …

Building The Perfect Memory Bandwidth Beast was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

What Do We Do When Compute And Memory Stop Getting Cheaper?

The IT industry, like every other industry we suppose, is in a constant state of dealing with the next bottleneck. …

What Do We Do When Compute And Memory Stop Getting Cheaper? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Intel Sometimes Charges A Hefty Premium For Sapphire Rapids

No matter what, and without any excuses about Moore’s Law slowing down, those buying compute, storage, and networking expect at least one thing in any generational leap in a device: That the cost per unit of capacity goes down. …

Intel Sometimes Charges A Hefty Premium For Sapphire Rapids was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Highly Profitable Chip Making Monopoly Called TSMC

When Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing speaks, the datacenter sector of the IT industry listens because, with few exceptions, this foundry etches the compute, networking, and storage engines that power the datacenter. …

The Highly Profitable Chip Making Monopoly Called TSMC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Rest Of The World Can Finally Get Sapphire Rapids Xeon SPs

If you are thinking that you are having flashbacks as Intel is launching the “Sapphire Rapids” server CPUs – the company’s fourth generation in the Xeon SP family of server processors – you are not alone. …

The Rest Of The World Can Finally Get Sapphire Rapids Xeon SPs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking

Thanks to the ubiquity of the X86 server platform, the Kubernetes container controller, and the KVM server virtualization hypervisor, it is relatively easy to compute like a hyperscaler or cloud builder. …

Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise

There are exceptions to every rule, but in general, when it comes to datacenter networks, enterprise customers are doing now what the hyperscalers and cloud builders were doing six or seven years ago. …

Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.