Archives for June, 2010
by Nik Simpson | June 29, 2010 | Comments Off
Last week I took a brief look at two companies who believe they have the solution to energy efficient clouds (see here). Both approaches certainly sound like they should deliver more energy efficient clouds than can be constructed using conventional commodity servers, but that may not be enough, for several reasons: Niche solution: Both Tilerra [...]
Category: Cloud Servers Tags: cloud hardware architectures, energy efficiency
by Nik Simpson | June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve touched on the possibility of using non-traditional hardware architectures such as ARM-based servers in previous posts on the Burton Group blog (see here, here) but some recent announcements from AMD, SeaMicro, and Tilera are starting to make a clearer case for cloud providers. First up is this week’s announcement from AMD of its Opteron [...]
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