As the underdog in cloud computing, Google has to take a slightly different tack from industry pioneer and juggernaut Amazon Web Services, which simply believes that all applications should, in the fullness of time, move to the public cloud. …
Kubernetes has quickly become a key technology in the emerging containerized application environment since it was first announced by Google engineers just more than three years ago, catching hold as the primary container orchestration tool used by hyperscalers, HPC organizations and enterprises and overshadowing similar tools like Docker Swarm, Mesos and OpenStack. …
When enterprises talk about cloud computing, they invariably talk about hybrid and multi-cloud environments. …
Hybrid clouds may be the direction many enterprises are heading in, but it is a path fraught with challenges. …
For disaster recovery, political, and organizational reasons, enterprises like to have multiple datacenters, and now they are going hybrid with public cloud capacity adding in the mix. …
What layer of software is ultimately going to be in control of the fabric of compute, storage, and networking that organizations all over the world have been gradually building? …
Sometimes the old ideas are the best ones, but they sometimes get ahead of their time. …
Hardware is always the star of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and this year we got previews of “Blackwell” datacenter GPUs, the cornerstone of a 2025 platform that includes “Grace” CPUs, the NVLink Switch 5 chip, the Bluefield-3 DPU, and other components, all of which Nvidia is talking about again this week at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. …
SPONSORED FEATURE: The face of modern networking is changing dramatically in parallel with the exponential increase in the volume of data traffic over the last several years. …
One of the reasons why we have been watching Nutanix since it dropped out of stealth mode in August 2011, two years after being founded, because we had a hunch that the upstart maker of a server-storage half-blood than banned the SAN from the datacenter would transform itself into a platform. …
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