When IBM announced that it was acquiring Red Hat for $34 billion eighteen months ago, one of the things we said that Big Blue needed most and would get from taking over – but not messing with – the world’s largest commercial open source software company was a coherent story that it could tell to its customers about how IBM, which more than any other company helped define data processing, was still relevant to the future. …
The Next IBM Platform, Revisited was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the coming weeks and months, particularly as we are entering the financial reporting season for the first quarter of 2020, we are naturally going to be looking for any good news we can find. …
The Big Will Get Bigger Because We Need Them To was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
If we are ever going to know what affect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the IT sector, we have to keep track of what was going on before the outbreak started to hit us hard in the first quarter of 2020. …
The Outlook For Infrastructure Is Cloudy – In A Good Way was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
As the dominant supplier of commercial-grade open source infrastructure software, Red Hat sets the pace and it is not a surprise that IBM was willing to shell out an incredible $34 billion to acquire the company. …
How Edge Is Different From Cloud – And Not was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
A collaboration of researchers from the University of California Davis, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Intel are working together on the DisCo project to extract insight from complex unlabeled data. …
Python Delivers Big On Complex Unlabeled Data was written by Rob Farber at The Next Platform.
One size definitely does not fit all workloads and one budget when it comes to server processors. …
AMD Cranks The Rome Clocks, Keeping The Heat On Intel was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Several years ago, the HPC systems designed for wide-ranging scientific computing were quite a bit different than those built for intense scalability and maximum peak performance. …
Building Innovative HPC for Massively Mixed Workloads was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Since late February and early March, when the coronavirus outbreak began to spill out of China in earnest and spread its sickness and death across Europe, throughout the United States, and into other parts of the globe, IT companies have stepped up to lend their technologies to fight the pandemic. …
Graphing The Coronavirus Pandemic was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The hyperscalers and the largest public clouds have been on the front end of each successive network bandwidth wave for more than a decade, and it only stands to reason that they, rather than the IEEE, would want to drive the standards for faster Ethernet networks. …
Hyperscalers Set The Pace For 800G Ethernet was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
VMware burst onto the datacenter scene a little more than a decade ago, during the last big recession, when server virtualization appeared at exactly the right time when server spending was going to be seriously curtailed by economic forces. …
Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Over the last few years the idea of “conditional computation” has been key to making neural network processing more efficient, even though much of the hardware ecosystem has focused on general purpose approaches that rely on matrix math operations that brute force the problem instead of selectively operate on only the required pieces. …
Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” …
IT Spending Projections Go Negative For 2020 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
To one way of looking at it, a reprise of the Bus Wars from days gone by in the late 1980s and early 1990s would have been a lot of fun. …
CXL And Gen-Z Iron Out A Coherent Interconnect Strategy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
For the past five years or so, there has been a lot of talk about accelerated computing being the new normal and about the era of the general purpose processor being over in the datacenter, and for good reason. …
Tachyum Starts From Scratch To Etch A Universal Processor was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Since 1965, the computer industry has relied on Moore’s Law to accelerate innovation, pushing more transistors into integrated circuits to improve computation performance. …
Disrupt The Datacenter With Orchestration was written by Guy Harpak at The Next Platform.
The Great Infection is unique among recessions in that it is essentially a self-imposed economic downturn, not the result of over-exuberance or excess optimism or greed, but by a spikey ball of fat that is not alive but is more like a self-replicating biological machine that only knows how to do one thing: Copy itself if it reaches the right sticky environment in time before it dries out and falls apart. …
IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
In the ever-evolving landscape that is the edge, applications are the driving force. …
Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic causes the Great Recession II or the Great Depression II, we are without a doubt entering an era when IT industry is going to need lower prices, better performance, and better thermal profiles for their compute engines than they have ever required before. …
Betting On Extreme Co-Design For Compute Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Public-private partnerships are common when responding to national or international crises and the current coronavirus pandemic that is expanding around the globe is no different. …
A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. …
Pushing PCI-Express Fabrics Up To The Next Level was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.