Dell Technologies, since its founding 37 years ago, has been about infrastructure, from the servers, networking systems and storage appliances that populate enterprise datacenters to the corporate clients that are designed to make employees more productive. …
Dell Ties Storage To Kubernetes, Sharpens Edge Strategy was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Every startup has to be both flexible and focused, and it is tough to balance the two. …
Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SPONSORED It is only natural the world’s top supercomputing sites in climate and weather modeling should be leading the charge for more efficient, sustainable, and green datacenter practices. …
Lenovo Neptune Makes Weather Supercomputers Cool Again was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Thomas Kurian’s arrival at Google Cloud in early 2019 after more than 22 years at Oracle marked a significant shift in Google’s thinking, putting an emphasis on expanding its cloud’s business use by enterprises as the key to making up ground on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in the booming global cloud market. …
Google Muscles Its Way Into Datacenters, Attacks From The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Ex-Nervana Systems engineers made the jump from a hardware-centric approach to efficient training to pushing better insight into optimization of models and systems. …
Former Nervana Leads Target Optimal Training Configurations was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Search engine and cloud computing juggernaut Google is hosting its Google Cloud Next ’21 conference this week, and one of the more interesting things that the company unveiled is several layers of software that makes its Spanner globally distributed relational database look and feel like the popular open source PostgreSQL relational database. …
Google Opens Up Spanner Database With PostgreSQL Interface was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Here are two things you don’t see every day in the realm of scientific and technical high performance computing. …
Eni Chooses Utility Pricing For New HPC4+ Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
We are strong believers in disaggregation and composability here at The Next Platform, and we think that eventually the tyranny of the physical confines and configurations of motherboard will be over. …
VMware Stretches ESXi To Be A Disaggregated Memory Hypervisor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the history of defense technology contracting, two companies continue to loom large: IBM and Raytheon.
Raytheon, IBM Partner for Quantum in Defense, Aerospace was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Clear Ventures managed to stay out of the AI chip startup investment fray of the last several years. …
A Clear View on the AI Hardware Mirage was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
One of the more interesting trends in infrastructure that we try to get a handle on every once in a while is how much of the server and storage capacity is being deployed in bare metal, standalone fashion and how much is being sold to run utility style, cloud environments. …
The Slow But Tectonic Shifts In Datacenter Infrastructure was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
It may not seem like it, but Oracle is still in the high-end server business, at least when it comes to big machines running its eponymous relational database. …
Oracle Still Hanging In There With Exadata Engineered Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …
VMware Partners Its Way Deeper into Cloud, Edge, And AI was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
You would have to look far and wide to find a tougher business to be in than chip manufacturing, which is why the many dozens of server makers who used to make their own CPUs – often multiple types – no longer run their own foundries and, with the exception of IBM and now Amazon Web Services, no longer exist. …
Globalfoundries IPO Shows Just How Tough The Chip Making Business Is was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With only one, perhaps two, percent share of the broader datacenter cooling market, immersion and direct liquid cooling are still fringe technologies. …
When Immersion Cooling is the Only Option was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Since launching GreenLake in 2018 and promising that all of its portfolio would be available as services by next year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been on a sprint to build up the capabilities of the platform. …
HPE Converts Analytics, Storage, Data Protection To GreenLake was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The fiscal year of the federal government in the United States ends on September 30, and whether we all knew it or not, the US Department of Energy had a revised goal of beginning the deployment of at least one exascale-class supercomputing system before fiscal 2021 ended and fiscal 2022 began on October 1. …
First Look At Oak Ridge’s “Frontier” Exascaler, Contrasted To Argonne’s “Aurora” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With over 200 million users streaming its video services, the backend CDN servers, storage, and networks at Netflix have to balance performance and efficiency carefully. …
Netflix Boosts Streaming While Reducing Socket Counts was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Intel is still placing bets on neuromorphic computing with its Loihi devices. …
A First Look at Intel’s Next-Level Neuromorphic Engine was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Sponsored Moving more bits across a copper wire or optical cable at a lower cost per bit shifted has been the dominant driver of datacenter networking since distributed systems were first developed more than three decades ago. …
InfiniBand Innovation Is About More Than Bandwidth And Latency was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.