Enterprise
High Sticking With Flash Memory
Making the transition from disk storage to flash and other non-volatile media is perhaps more difficult for the makers of storage than it is for customers. …
3D XPoint
Compute
Systems To Morph As Memory Options Expand
Compute is by far still the largest part of the hardware budget at most IT organizations, and even with the advance of technology, which allows more compute, memory, storage, and I/O to be crammed into a server node, we still seem to always want more. …
Compute
Intel Owns The Server, Wants To Own The Rack
Chip maker Intel has been getting a lot of grief in recent days about missing the boat on putting chips in Apple’s iPhone back when the product was announced back in 2007, and then subsequently also losing out on the opportunity to have Intel Inside the Apple iPad tablet that came out three years later. …
Compute
Future Systems: What Will Tomorrow’s Server Look Like?
We can talk about storage and networking as much as we want, and about how the gravity of data bends infrastructure to its needs, but the server – or a collection of them loosely or tightly coupled – is still the real center of the datacenter. …
Enterprise
NVDIMM: Can’t Wait for 3D XPoint, Can’t Rely On DRAM Alone
For most applications running in the datacenter, a clever distributed processing model or high availability clustering are enough to ensure that transaction processing or pushing data into a storage server will continue even if there is an error. …
Cloud
Intel’s Plan To Grow Its Share Of Datacenter Wallets
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
Enterprise
Intel Reveals Plans For Optane 3D XPoint Memory
Chip makers and partners Intel and Micron Technology unveiled their jointly developed and manufactured 3D XPoint memory three weeks ago to much fanfare, but it is still perhaps sinking in to system architects and future system buyers how dramatic a move this is and how much it will change the memory hierarchy in systems and the applications that ride on it. …