Compute
The Most Volatile IT Spending Year Is In The Rear View Mirror
The future has a nasty habit of being very hard to predict. …
coronavirus
Compute
Server Hunger Is Stronger Than Economic Uncertainty
The appetite for compute capacity, and presumably also for storage and networking capacity, in the datacenter of the world might be waning in some sectors of the economy, but thanks to the voracious hunger of the hyperscalers and cloud builders and more than a few large enterprises that need to do more, not less, computing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, server sales are now consistently at the levels we saw way back in the Dot-Com Boom more than twenty years ago. …
Compute
Server Spending Measures Aspiration As Much As Oomph
Sometimes, to get the proper perspective, you have to take the long view. …
HPC
Attacking The Novel Coronavirus With Supercomputing Cycles
Dan Stanzione has a lot of compute power at his fingertips. …
Store
Graphing The Coronavirus Pandemic
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. …
Compute
IT Spending Projections Go Negative For 2020
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” …
Code
A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic
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. …
HPC
Bringing 330 Petaflops Of Supercomputing To Bear On The Outbreak
IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are teaming with the White House, the US Department of Energy, and other federal agencies to bring a massive amount of supercomputing power and public cloud resources to scientists, engineers and researchers who are working to address the novel coronavirus global pandemic that is expected to bear down hard on the United States in the coming weeks. …