Cloud
The Inevitability Of Private Public Clouds
Call it a phase that companies will have to go through to get to the promised land of the public cloud. …
Azure
Compute
In-Memory Breathes New Life Into NUMA
Hyperscalers and the academics that often do work with them have invented a slew of distributed computing methods and frameworks to get around the problem of scaling up shared memory systems based on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or non-uniform memory access (NUMA) techniques that have been in the systems market for decades. …
Cloud
Microsoft’s Open Compute Gambit Pays Off
Just because computing and storage are commodities does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that they are inexpensive. …
Cloud
Inside Microsoft’s Azure Stack Private Cloud
Bringing the Azure platform from Microsoft’s own public cloud down into the datacenters of enterprises and service providers means more than just giving these shops the same tools to manage raw virtualized compute, storage, and networking. …
Cloud
Azure Stack Gives Microsoft Leverage Over AWS, Google
In a very real sense, the world’s three biggest public cloud operators are also among the largest server and storage manufacturers. …
Cloud
Azure CTO Plots The Future Of Cloud Building
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …
Cloud
Microsoft Azure Adds GPUs, Beefs Up CPU Compute
For certain kinds of modeling, simulation, and machine learning workloads, the advent of GPU coprocessors has been a watershed event. …
Connect
Microsoft Crafts Homegrown Linux For Azure Switches
Microsoft doesn’t just love running Linux workloads on the Azure cloud. …
Cloud
Can Cloud Pricing Stay On Moore’s Law Curves?
The name of the game among the hyperscalers is to use their hardware and software engineering to get their infrastructure compute and storage costs coming down faster than the rate of Moore’s Law improvements for the components that make up their systems. …
AI
Hortonworks Keeps Time With Hadoop’s Cloud March
Over the last eighteen months Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks, has watched a stampede of users rush to the cloud, prompting the company to look for better ways to extend usability for first-time entrants to Hadoop territory and to accommodate the rush of test and dev workloads that prefer quick cloud deployments. …