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Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Shared Memory Clusters: Of NUMA And Cache Latencies
July 9th, 2014 Comments Off on Shared Memory Clusters: Of NUMA And Cache Latencies
In the introduction article in this series, I explained that NUMA topology-based SMP systems with two levels to the memory (DRAM) hierarchy have been around and kicking for quite a few years now. We added a third level to ...
VMware, Microsoft Rule X86 Server Virtualization
July 8th, 2014 Comments Off on VMware, Microsoft Rule X86 Server Virtualization
In many ways, the choice of a server virtualization technology is more important for a large enterprise than is the choice of the underlying physical server platform. While the X86 platforms that dominate enterprise datacenters are not perfectly uniform ...
IBM DOME Microserver Could Appeal To Enterprises
July 7th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM DOME Microserver Could Appeal To Enterprises
An experimental microserver system developed by IBM in conjunction with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy has the potential to end up in commercial systems running massively parallel workloads. So hopes Ronald Luijten, a system designer at IBM Research ...
Extreme Networks Takes The Open Road To SDN
July 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on Extreme Networks Takes The Open Road To SDN
Having announced that it was joining the OpenDaylight Project a month ago, Extreme Networks has come out with a software-defined networking strategy that will heavily leverage that open source project and that will also make use of the many ...
Cloud Builders Push 25G Ethernet Standard
July 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Cloud Builders Push 25G Ethernet Standard
Unhappy with the cost per gigabit of bandwidth with current Ethernet switches and adapters, two of the cloud computing giants – Google and Microsoft – have teamed up with two switch chip providers – Broadcom and Mellanox Technologies – ...
Transitions, Competition Curb Datacenter Spending Growth
July 1st, 2014 Comments Off on Transitions, Competition Curb Datacenter Spending Growth
The prognosticators at Gartner have gazed into their crystal balls and now think that spending on servers, switching, and storage in the datacenter is going to be a bit slower than expected this year, and also say that they ...
VXLAN Is The Future Of Networking In The Cloud
July 1st, 2014 Comments Off on VXLAN Is The Future Of Networking In The Cloud
Cloud deployments depend on many network services such as monitoring, VPN services, advanced firewalling and intrusion prevention, load balancing, and traditional security and optimization policies. If we consider a modern cloud data center that supports potentially hundreds of thousands ...
OpenStack Sees Widespread Enterprise Adoption
June 30th, 2014 Comments Off on OpenStack Sees Widespread Enterprise Adoption
As a recent attendee and speaker at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, I was amazed at what a difference a year makes in the life of the OpenStack project. I come from a datacenter operations background and my interest ...
Shared Memory Clusters 101
June 30th, 2014 (2)
Shared memory clusters are one of those technologies that is at the same time just evolutionary, but also – because of what it will become – potentially revolutionary. Although related technologies like distributed shared memory or virtual memory sharing ...
Oracle Revs Virtual Compute Appliance
June 25th, 2014 Comments Off on Oracle Revs Virtual Compute Appliance
The engineered systems that Oracle is best known for are used to accelerate databases and middleware, but the company also peddles machines that are preconfigured to run basic cloud infrastructure workloads, too. Called the Virtual Compute Appliances, these machines ...