Stacking Up Arm Server Chips Against X86
It is pretty clear at this point that there is going to be a global recession thanks to the coronavirus outbreak. …
Stacking Up Arm Server Chips Against X86 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Packet Puts An Edge on Equinix
In the end, what enterprises really want is a way to run any application on any cloud at any time. …
Packet Puts An Edge on Equinix was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Ceph Gets Fit And Finish For Enterprise Storage
Ceph, the open source object storage born from a doctoral dissertation in 2005, has been aimed principally at highly scalable workloads found in HPC environments and, later, with hyperscalers who did not want to create their own storage anymore. …
Ceph Gets Fit And Finish For Enterprise Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Crunching Photons And Electrons Down Into Datacenter Switch ASICs
At some point, Moore’s Law increases in performance are going to hit a wall when it comes to datacenter networks. …
Crunching Photons And Electrons Down Into Datacenter Switch ASICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3
Arm server chip upstart Ampere Computing made a big splash with its 80-core “Quicksilver” Altra processor two weeks ago, and Marvell, which is the volume leader in Arm server chips with its “Vulcan” ThunderX2 processors (largely inherited from its acquisition of Broadcom’s Arm server chip assets), is hitting back with some revelations about its future “Triton” ThunderX3 chip and its roadmap out beyond that. …
Marvell Cranks Up Cores And Clocks With “Triton” ThunderX3 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Last Hurrah Before The Server Recession
Excepting some potholes here and there and a few times when the hyperscalers and cloud builders tapped the brakes, it has been one hell of a run in the last decade for servers. …
The Last Hurrah Before The Server Recession was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
VMware And Kubernetes: More Than Just A Defensive Play
At first, VMware’s embrace of Kubernetes – several times in several different ways over several years – has a whiff of desperation about it. …
VMware And Kubernetes: More Than Just A Defensive Play was written by Mitch Wagner at The Next Platform.
Tuning The FPGA For Clouds And Comms
It has been a long time since plain vanilla programmable logic circuits known as field programmable gate arrays have been available in a raw form. …
Tuning The FPGA For Clouds And Comms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
VMware Rejuvenates Once Again With Kubernetes Injection
The American landscape is littered with dead malls – once-thriving shopping centers now abandoned, filled with rubble, with empty department stores and food courts echoing with the ghostly shouts of 1980s teenagers in acid-washed jeans and big hair. …
VMware Rejuvenates Once Again With Kubernetes Injection was written by Mitch Wagner at The Next Platform.
The Metronomic Cadence Of Chippery From AMD
Companies invest in platforms over a decade or more, and that is why architectures persist longer than we might think given technological differences and economic forces. …
The Metronomic Cadence Of Chippery From AMD was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Next Platform Radio for March, 2020
Next Platform Radio for the month of March, 2020.
Join The Next Platform for interviews and analysis around each day’s events. …
Next Platform Radio for March, 2020 was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity
It’s been just more than a decade since Arm executives began to talk about bringing the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture, which has long been the dominant design for processors found in billions of smartphones and other mobile device, into the datacenter. …
Isambard 2 Is About Driving Technology Diversity was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The Serious Business Of Being A Server OEM
Not everybody is a hyperscaler or large public cloud builder, and no two companies are happier about that than Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the two largest original equipment manufacturers in the world for servers and storage and also the two companies that chased plenty of sales at these webscale datacenter operators in years gone by but which have learned, of necessity, to walk away from deals where they can’t make money or even lose money. …
The Serious Business Of Being A Server OEM was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
AMD Is Determined To Gets Its Rightful Datacenter Share
There is an equally virtuous and vicious cycle that propels all computing: Innovation requires competition to propel it, and competition requires innovation to meet it; repeat or fade. …
AMD Is Determined To Gets Its Rightful Datacenter Share was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer
Yesterday with the announcement of the forthcoming El Capitan supercomputer, which is set to be more powerful than the top 200 supercomputers combined, we got to thinking about a critical issue that is far less attention-capturing than big performance numbers. …
Software Evolution on ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Bulking Up The File System for A World Of Clouds And Edges
The challenge of managing data is growing faster than the data itself is piling up, and that is bad except for the companies that can create new tools to manage it, either to use internally as the hyperscalers do or to sell to those who cannot fund such development and count on vendors to do it. …
Bulking Up The File System for A World Of Clouds And Edges was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Supermicro Plants A Flag At The Edge
In a short time, the edge has become the crucial third leg holding up the IT stool, joining traditional on-premises datacenters and the public clouds. …
Supermicro Plants A Flag At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Lawrence Livermore To Surpass 2 Exaflops With AMD Compute
As the steward of the nuclear weapon arsenal for the United States government, it is probably not an overstatement to say that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the main supercomputer and scientific research facilities operated by the Department of Energy, is keenly interested in bang for the buck. …
Lawrence Livermore To Surpass 2 Exaflops With AMD Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A Flare For SmartNICs
As the hyperscalers and cloud builders go, so goes the enterprise. …
A Flare For SmartNICs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Ampere Aims For The Clouds With Altra Arm Server Chip
At this point in the history of information technology, there is no way to introduce a new processor that does not appeal to the hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
Ampere Aims For The Clouds With Altra Arm Server Chip was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.