The Open Compute Project started by Facebook nearly five years ago is in many respects a tier one server maker a tier one server maker that just so happens to have multiple manufacturers etching motherboards and bending metal instead of one. …
Hyperscalers have hundreds of millions to more than a billion users, which requires infrastructure on a vast scale. …
Just because computing and storage are commodities does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that they are inexpensive. …
The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …
These days when you talk to people in the tech industry, you will get the idea that in-memory computing solves everything. …
There is a simple test to figure out just how seriously social network Facebook is taking machine learning, and it has nothing to do with research papers or counting cat pictures automagically with neural networks. …
There is a misconception out there that the hyperscalers of the world are so rich that they always have the shiniest new toys in their datacenters. …
When is the right time to get rid of servers and storage and replace them with shiny new gear? …
The entire premise of language and the storage of communication is founded on a principle that we can learn from the mistakes and successes of others. …
When you have tackled some of the biggest database and storage problems in hyperscale computing, what do you do as an encore? …
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