Cloud Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/cloud/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:12:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg Cloud Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/category/cloud/ 32 32 86113652 The Sugar Daddy Boomerang Effect: How AI Investments Puff Up The Clouds https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/12/the-sugar-daddy-boomerang-effect-how-ai-investments-puff-up-the-clouds/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/12/the-sugar-daddy-boomerang-effect-how-ai-investments-puff-up-the-clouds/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:30:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144511 Here’s a question for you: How much of the growth in cloud spending at Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud in the second quarter came from OpenAI and Anthropic spending money they got as investments out of the treasure chests of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google? …

The Sugar Daddy Boomerang Effect: How AI Investments Puff Up The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/08/12/the-sugar-daddy-boomerang-effect-how-ai-investments-puff-up-the-clouds/feed/ 3 144511 Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/#comments Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:23:35 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144413 Maybe, if you need blazing performance extracting data and chewing on it from a relational database, it belongs in a cloud. …

Oracle Goes Massively Parallel, Low Cost With Exadata Exascale was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/16/oracle-goes-massively-parallel-low-cost-with-exadata-exascale/feed/ 8 144413 AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/#comments Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:08:43 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144382 UPDATED: Mea culpa. Due to an error in calculating the performance of the Graviton 4, we wrongly asserted that the price/performance of these chips was worse than, not better than, that of the Graviton 3. …

AWS Pushes Bang For The Buck With Graviton 4 Instances was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/09/aws-charges-a-hefty-premium-for-graviton-4-instances/feed/ 7 144382 Cloud Revenues Will Bust Through $1 Trillion Before Too Long https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/21/cloud-revenues-will-bust-through-1-trillion-before-too-long/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/21/cloud-revenues-will-bust-through-1-trillion-before-too-long/#comments Tue, 21 May 2024 14:40:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144174 Cloud is an attitude as much as it is a consumption model. …

Cloud Revenues Will Bust Through $1 Trillion Before Too Long was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/21/cloud-revenues-will-bust-through-1-trillion-before-too-long/feed/ 2 144174 AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/06/ai-accelerates-cloud-revenues-as-well-as-cloud-investments/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/06/ai-accelerates-cloud-revenues-as-well-as-cloud-investments/#comments Mon, 06 May 2024 17:16:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144107 Three years ago, thanks in part to competitive pressures as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others started giving Amazon Web Services a run for the cloud money, the growth rate in quarterly spending on cloud services was slowing. …

AI Accelerates Cloud Revenues As Well As Cloud Investments was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/06/ai-accelerates-cloud-revenues-as-well-as-cloud-investments/feed/ 3 144107 Amazon Gives Anthropic $2.75 Billion So It Can Spend It On AWS XPUs https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/27/amazon-gives-anthropic-2-75-billion-so-it-can-spend-it-on-aws-gpus/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/27/amazon-gives-anthropic-2-75-billion-so-it-can-spend-it-on-aws-gpus/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:37:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143874 If Microsoft has the half of OpenAI that didn’t leave, then Amazon and its Amazon Web Services cloud division needs the half of OpenAI that did leave – meaning Anthropic. …

Amazon Gives Anthropic $2.75 Billion So It Can Spend It On AWS XPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/27/amazon-gives-anthropic-2-75-billion-so-it-can-spend-it-on-aws-gpus/feed/ 0 143874 Hyperscalers Bringing Nvidia’s Grace-Blackwell Superchip To Their Clouds https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/21/hyperscalers-bringing-nvidias-grace-blackwell-superchip-to-their-clouds/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/21/hyperscalers-bringing-nvidias-grace-blackwell-superchip-to-their-clouds/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:01:10 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143855 At his company’s GTC 2024 Technical Conference this week, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang, unveiled the chip maker’s massive Blackwell GPUs and accompanying NVLink networking systems, promising a future where hyperscale cloud providers, HPC centers, and other organizations of size and means can meet the rapidly increasing compute demands driven by the emergence of generative AI. …

Hyperscalers Bringing Nvidia’s Grace-Blackwell Superchip To Their Clouds was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/21/hyperscalers-bringing-nvidias-grace-blackwell-superchip-to-their-clouds/feed/ 5 143855 AWS And Nvidia Reboot “Ceiba” Supercomputer For Blackwell GPUs https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/20/aws-and-nvidia-reboot-ceiba-supercomputer-for-blackwell-gpus/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/20/aws-and-nvidia-reboot-ceiba-supercomputer-for-blackwell-gpus/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2024 02:43:11 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143854 Last November, we got a sneak peak at a supercomputer called “Ceiba” that would be built jointly by Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, based on its then-new GH200 Grace-Hopper CPU-GPU compute complexes, its NVLink Switch 3 memory fabric for GPUs, and the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA2) Ethernet interconnect that is custom designed by AWS to link racks of machines to each other. …

AWS And Nvidia Reboot “Ceiba” Supercomputer For Blackwell GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/20/aws-and-nvidia-reboot-ceiba-supercomputer-for-blackwell-gpus/feed/ 1 143854 Kubernetes Clusters Have Massive Overprovisioning Of Compute And Memory https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/04/kubernetes-clusters-have-massive-overprovisioning-of-compute-and-memory/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/04/kubernetes-clusters-have-massive-overprovisioning-of-compute-and-memory/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:05:25 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143737 In the ten years since Google released Kubernetes to the open source community, it has become the dominant platform for orchestrating and managing software containers and microservices, along the way muscling out competitors like Docker Swarm and Mesosphere. …

Kubernetes Clusters Have Massive Overprovisioning Of Compute And Memory was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/04/kubernetes-clusters-have-massive-overprovisioning-of-compute-and-memory/feed/ 5 143737 Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/16/lambda-snags-320-million-to-grow-its-rent-a-gpu-cloud/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/02/16/lambda-snags-320-million-to-grow-its-rent-a-gpu-cloud/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:20:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143666 Riding high on the AI hype cycle, Lambda – formerly known as Lambda Labs and well known to readers of The Next Platform – has received a $320 million cash infusion to expand its GPU cloud to support training clusters spanning thousands of Nvidia’s top specced accelerators. …

Lambda Snags $320 Million To Grow Its Rent-A-GPU Cloud was written by Tobias Mann at The Next Platform.

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