Category: Data Center

A combination of macroeconomic headwinds and internal problems led to Intel’s revenue dropping 22% to $15.3 billion in the second quarter of 2022, marking the seventh straight quarter of decline for the chipmaker. Revenue was also 15% below the company’s original guidance for the quarter. “Due to the difficult macroeconomic environment together with our own… Continue reading Overdependence On Pcs And Servers Drag Intel Down | Computerworld

Optane, the memory technology pioneered and championed by Intel, has seen its last days. Intel has decided to wind down the technology as part of a refocusing effort. The news came on an earnings call with analysts to discuss Intel’s rocky second quarter. Since Pat Gelsinger has taken the reigns at Intel, the company has… Continue reading Intel Kills Optane Amid Cost Cutting | Network World

There’s never a dull moment in the enterprise SSD market. Among the latest developments are three new products from Samsung, Micron and Kioxia. Here are the highlights. Samsung’s new computational storage drive Samsung unveiled a second generation of its SmartSSD, an SSD with a Xilinx FPGA and some memory for doing computational storage. Computational storage… Continue reading Ssd Roundup: New Products Deliver Speed, Density Gains | Network World

Later this month, HP Enterprise will ship what looks to be the first server aimed specifically at AI inferencing for machine learning. Machine learning is a two-part process, training and inferencing. Training is usign powerful GPUs from Nvidia and AMD or other high-performance chips to “teach” the AI system what to look for, such as… Continue reading Hpe To Ship A Dedicated Inference Server For The Edge | Network World

A big lesson brought home early in the COVID-19 pandemic is that IT requirements can suddenly change at an explosive rate, and the only way to prepare for such events is to build as much flexibility as possible into corporate networks. Many large enterprises had already embraced this concept, but smaller ones with fewer financial… Continue reading Just-In-Time It Infrastructure: How To Attain It For Strategic Advantage | Network World

OK, you’re a CIO and when you go down to the data center, you see racks of routers, each with a maze of cabling.  When you hear “virtual routers” you think of all of that gone, replaced by mystical router instances floating about somewhere in the ether, and you smile. Or you’re a CFO who… Continue reading What Are Virtual Routers And How Can They Lead To Virtual Data Centers? | Network World

Watch is a command on Linux that will repeatedly run commands for you, and it offers some very useful options. One of its basic options is that you can tell watch how long to wait before running the specified command again. For example, if you run the command watch -n 10 date, the watch command will first clear the screen… Continue reading Using The Watch Command On Linux | Network World

There are only a few special characters involved in working with character strings on the command line or in a script on Linux: the single quote, the double quote and the backslash. But the rules aren’t as obvious as one might think. In this post, we’ll look at the easy and the somewhat tricky uses… Continue reading The Simplicity And Complexity Of Using Quotes On Linux | Network World

Redundancy is essential for dealing with both planned and unplanned outages, and that includes having redundant dynamic host-configuration protocol (DHCP) servers to allow uninterrupted dynamic assignment of IP addresses. For those working in Windows environments, there are currently two options for setting up redundant DHCP servers: a failover scenario with a main server paired with… Continue reading How To Set Up Dhcp Failover On Windows Server | Network World

The cd command makes it easy to switch to another directory on Liniux, but only if you know where you’re heading. In this post, I discuss a couple of tricks for moving between known locations and provide a script for finding and “remembering” files or locations that you might want to reuse. One of the… Continue reading How To Find Files On Linux And Make It Easy To Find Them Again | Network World