We have a long-standing joke that dates from the early 2000s, when the hyperscalers – there were not yet cloud builders as we now know them – started having hundreds of millions of users and millions ...

There is a very interesting technical side to IT infrastructure, which we are obviously very keen on exploring here at The Next Platform. But there is an economic side that we also watch like a hawk.

Chasing data-center trends, top server makers have made storage and memory capacity a priority in their new servers. Servers with Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 v3 server chips, code-named Grantley, were ...

Mainstream use of flash-based storage is one of the most significant developments in modern data center design. Today, most enterprises run multiple workloads on storage solutions that utilize flash ...