Cloud
Cloud Is The Dominant Platform Consumption Model – So What?
If The Next Platform is about anything, it is about chronicling the tectonic changes that affect the IT landscape. …
Storage
Compute
A Tale Of Two Enterprise IT Beasties
The so-called “Magnificent 7” or “Super 8” hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world may comprise a substantial slice of worldwide sales of servers, storage, and networking, and the cloud capacity and hyperscale services they provide may in turn represent a significant – but nowhere near dominant – chunk of overall IT spending. …
HPC
Pawsey Finds I/O Sweet Spots for Data-Intensive Supercomputing
When it comes to data-intensive supercomputing, few centers have the challenges Pawsey Supercomputing Centre faces. …
Cloud
Google And Dell Pave The Way For File Data In The Cloud
A year ago, Dell Technologies made a significant push deeper into the fast-growing hybrid cloud space, unveiling its Dell Technologies Cloud initiative that includes hybrid cloud platforms that take advantage of the tight integration of technologies from Dell and VMware, which is majority owned by the larger company. …
Compute
IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection
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. …
Edge
Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge
In the ever-evolving landscape that is the edge, applications are the driving force. …
Compute
The Serious Business Of Being A Server OEM
Not everybody is a hyperscaler or large public cloud builder, and no two companies are happier about that than Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the two largest original equipment manufacturers in the world for servers and storage and also the two companies that chased plenty of sales at these webscale datacenter operators in years gone by but which have learned, of necessity, to walk away from deals where they can’t make money or even lose money. …
Compute
Intel Fills In The First Half Server Pothole – And Then Some
Let’s face it. Given how poorly the server market was doing in the final quarter of 2018 and the first two quarters of 2019, we had no idea how well or poorly 2019 might end up for Intel’s Data Center Group and the server industry at large. …
Cloud
For Whom The Dell Toils
It has been nearly five years since Michael Dell lined up $24 billion in cash to take the IT company that bears his name private, and it has been nearly four years since Dell announced its mammoth $67 billion deal to acquire enterprise storage maker EMC and its server virtualization minion, VMware. …
HPC
Exascale Storage Gets a GPU Boost
Alex St. John is a familiar name in the GPU and gaming industry given his role at Microsoft in the creation of DirectX technology in the 90s. …