As we approach the mid-point of a tumultuous 2020, competition between Intel and AMD in the data center is starting to heat up. Despite the economic impact on business and technology and supply chain disruption from COVID-19, demand for server computing is growing, and Intel is looking to fend off AMD by pushing forward on…
Whether you’re a large enterprise with a multimillion-dollar data center, or a small shop with a few applications servers in a server closet, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) use cases have exploded over the past few years. NVMe SSDs have proven to be a better solution for handling these workloads. In today’s hybrid…
Enterprise disk drive manufacturer Western Digital has made widely-available its Ultrastar® DC SN640 NVMe SSD. Based on the company’s 96-layer 3D flash technology, the SN640 is a purpose-built NVMe SSD that delivers low latency and maximum throughput for selected high-transaction workloads and use-cases. The newest member of the Western Digital NVMe SSD product family is…
Update: March 2020 – The computer hardware industry has been greatly impacted by both supply chain issues from both Intel Xeon server processors and the COVID-19 (corona virus) outbreak, disrupting delivery lead times. Limited Availability: Intel Xeon Scalable Lead by strong server demand in Q4-19 for 2nd generation Intel Xeon server processors (Cascade Lake) coupled…
With a long history of building systems featuring AMD server processors – dating back to the Athlon in 1999 and first multi-core Opteron processor of the mid 2000’s – we were so excited to learn about the “Rome” EPYC 2 7-nm core architecture ambitions. Delivered in 2017, the first-generation EPYC processors built atop the 14-nm…
