As we have pointed out before, large enterprises have to deal with a different kind of scale issue than the hyperscalers, and in many ways, the hyperscalers have it easier. …
The Opposite Of Snowflake: Analytics Without The Data Warehouse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the IT world, solving one gnarly problem can lead to greater complexities down the road. …
Building A Lakehouse Datastore Like Uber was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. …
The Future Is Still Wide Open For Arm In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
While a $1.25 billion hit to the Nvidia books after the company terminated its $40 billion deal to acquire chip designer Arm Holdings from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group this week is a big deal, the fact that Nvidia and SoftBank were going to see a lot of regulatory scrutiny and IT market resistance is no surprise. …
What Nvidia Can’t Buy, It Can Still Get Through An Arm Partnership was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As AMD is getting closer to closing its $35 billion acquisition of FPGA maker Xilinx, it is natural to think about how well that business is doing and how it is competing against its main rival, Intel – specifically, the Programmable Solutions Group, formerly known as the free-standing Altera before the latter was acquired by Intel in June 2015 for $16.7 billion. …
Xilinx Benefits From Intel FPGA Shortages was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Poor utilization is not the single domain of on-prem datacenters. Despite packing instances full of users, the largest cloud providers have similar problems. …
Distributed AI Training SETI-Style on Idle Cloud was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
What company has the lowest IT spending budget in the world, but has also paradoxically spent more money than any company in history investing in creating a new, modern, cloud-native system that is capable of running just about any application at just about any necessary scale? …
Millions Pay AWS To Give Amazon An Insurmountable IT Advantage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Arm-based servers have had a somewhat checkered history that has seen many abortive attempts to challenge the X86 processor hegemony, but the firm appears bullish about its chances in the high performance computing (HPC) sector, where it believes its licensing model and the energy efficiency of its architecture give it an edge. …
Arm CPUs To Take A Bite Out Of The HPC Market was written by Daniel Robinson at The Next Platform.
The “Everest” family of hybrid compute engines made by Xilinx, which have lots of programmable logic surrounded by hardened transistor blocks and which are sold under the Versal brand, have been known for so long that we sometimes forget – or can’t believe – that Versal chips are not yet available as standalone products in the datacenter or within the Alveo line of PCI-Express cards from the chip maker. …
Xilinx Works From The Edge Towards Datacenters With Versal FPGA Hybrids was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In a relatively few short years, Kubernetes has become the de facto orchestration platform for managing software containers, besting a lineup that included such contenders as Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …
As Kubernetes Matures, The Edge Needs Containment was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Only two quarters ago, AMD’s datacenter business – meaning sales of Epyc CPUs plus Instinct GPU accelerators – broke through $1 billion. …
AMD “Dimensions For Success” In The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Server virtualization has been around a long time, has come to different classes of machines and architectures over the decades to drive efficiency increases, and has seemingly reached a level of maturity that means we don’t have to give it a lot of thought. …
A Complete Rethinking Of Server Virtualization Hypervisors was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
All of the commercial platform creators in the world, since the dawn of time, which arguably started in the enterprise in April 1964 with the advent of the System/360 mainframe, wants the same things. …
For IBM, AI Inference Is The Most Important HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Whenever one company buys another, every product line, every research project, and every employee is ultimately in play. …
Cray’s Slingshot Interconnect Is At The Heart Of HPE’s HPC And AI Ambitions was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The IT industry is at the doorstep of the long-awaited exascale era, which promises massive systems that can run at least one exaflops, or a quintillion (a billion billion) calculations per second, at 64-bit precision and a lot more than that at lower precision and even more using low-precision integer data pumped through their vector and matrix engines. …
HPC As A Service Comes Full Circle And Will Help Take HPC Mainstream was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
There is a new tick–tock at work at chip maker Intel, and one that overlays the normal metronome cadence of manufacturing process shrinks and architecture advancement. …
Enterprises Fill In The Hyperscaler Gap For Intel’s Datacenter Business was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The company was named International Business Machines for a reason, and over the several decades that IBM concentrated on peddling managed services and consulting services to the largest corporations on Earth, with its Global Services behemoth representing two-thirds of its revenues, the company lost touch with, and took for granted, the machine part of its rich and long heritage. …
Can A Leaner IBM Be Mean Enough To Grow In The Datacenter? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For nearly two years, the world has been coping with the coronavirus pandemic and it has had obvious and consequential effects on the market for hardware, software, and services in the datacenter. …
The Future Comes Back Into The Equation For IT Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If you thought it took a lot of compute and storage to build Facebook’s social network, you ain’t seen nothing yet. …
Meta Buys, Rather Than Builds And Opens, Its Massive AI Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
PAID FEATURE In October 2021, in an incident lasting more than six hours, Facebook disappeared from the Internet. …
Why global DDoS protection is essential for Anycast networks was written by David Gordon at The Next Platform.