Is Microsoft’s SONiC Winning The War Of The NOSes?
There are many things that are ironic in the IT business. Too many to count, some days. And maybe it is just because many of […]

There are many things that are ironic in the IT business. Too many to count, some days. And maybe it is just because many of […]
There is a relentless hunger for bandwidth in the largest datacenters of the world as well as a desire to flatten networks and thereby reduce […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has blown a hole in many of the world’s economies, forcing many businesses to temporarily shut their doors, send employees home to […]
Any company that holds more than a quarter of a market – by money or shipments – is doing pretty well. Those few that have […]
Kamran Amini was an executive at IBM in the mid-2000s when the company first put AMD’s then-relatively new Opteron processors into some of its System […]
When Hewlett Packard Enterprise finally closed on its $1.3 billion acquisition of supercomputer maker Cray in September, it was just over a month after the […]
The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is the U.S. Office of Science’s purpose-built high performance network user facility, operating as the “circulatory system” that connects every […]
It is no surprise that the key criteria that organizations look for when shopping for high performance computing storage is performance. It’s right there in […]
Dell’s groundbreaking $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 was heralded by the vendor as a way to bring together two top-tier IT vendors with […]
Last week, when we talked to Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer, Jensen Huang, about how the datacenter was becoming the unit of compute and […]
With much of the world in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not a surprise that much of the attention that is being […]
One of the common themes – and one could say even the main theme – of The Next Platform is that some of technologies developed […]
We have said more than once in recent weeks that recessions accelerate technology transitions but they do not cause them. We now have a textbook […]
This week is the eighth annual International Workshop on OpenCL, SYCL, Vulkan, and SPIR-V, and the event is available online for the very first time […]
For all the talk of cloud computing for the past decade and a half, for all the growth that the hyperscale public cloud providers like […]
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