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Liftr Look Ahead: AWS Outposts – Taking Business From Server Vendors High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud High-performance computing (HPC) requires high bandwidth and low latency networks, which is a large part of what makes HPC expensive. AWS has set out to lower the cost of HPC by creating AWS Outposts, which allows them to potentially take business away from branded…
Liftr Look Ahead: AMD Time Series Data – The Journey to Capture Cloud Market Share Fighting for Cloud Market Share Previously, we discussed AMD and its journey to capture significant cloud market share from Intel. Today, we will look at time series data provided by Liftr Insights, showing AMD’s success during 2019. Liftr Insights Visual Time Series…
Liftr Look Ahead: Cloud Provider Pricing – The Complexity of Public Cloud IaaS Compute Pricing Public Cloud IaaS Compute Pricing is Complex Public cloud IaaS compute pricing is not simple. Let’s look at pricing for compute resources such as – processors and accelerators, not including storage or networking. Renting Instance Type Sizes Remember, an…
Liftr Look Ahead: Private Managed and Hybrid Clouds – Choices When Scaling What’s the difference between public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud? Everyone doesn’t use consistent terminology and definitions when talking about public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud computing. LIftr Insights uses the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) definition of…
Liftr Look Ahead: Zones and Regions – Their Importance to Cloud Customers Why do regions and zones matter to cloud customers? There are a few answers to that question: Fast end-customer response times is one of the primary reasons. It’s called “latency” in the engineering community. Low latency is important for many classes of applications,…
Liftr Look Ahead: 2019 Q3 Earnings Calls – Cloud Providers Help NVIDIA Grow 2019 Q3 cloud providers and supply chain earnings calls, the wrap-up: Quarterly reports for cloud providers and their supply chain usually occur in two clusters. This week, we’ll focus on the second cluster of 2019 Q3 reports, from cloud provider Tencent, middleware vendor VMware, chip vendor NVIDIA and system…
Liftr Look Ahead: Network and Gbps – SmartNICs Beat the Pace of Network Innovation Data center networks are the glue that connect all deployed servers in a cloud. Network Speeds and Capabilities However, unlike other instance type specifications, network speed and capabilities are not exposed to cloud customers as configuration options (for the most part).…
Liftr Look Ahead: Memory and GB – New Storage Class Memory Deployments The Importance of Memory for IaaS Instance Types and Sizes Memory size, alongside core count, is a major configuration component of IaaS instance types and sizes, and their pricing. The industry measures memory and storage capacity in gigabytes, abbreviated with a capital “GB”.…
Liftr Look Ahead: Q3 Earnings Calls Pt. 1 – AMD’s Latest Push Against Intel 2019 Q3 Reports are in! Quarterly reports for cloud providers and their supply chain usually occur in two clusters. This week, we’ll focus on the earlier cluster of 2019 Q3 reports from cloud providers Alphabet, Amazon, Baidu, IBM, and Microsoft, as well as…
Liftr Look Ahead: Cores and GHz – Intel Xeon Runs the Processor Game Enumerating Public Cloud Instance Types and Sizes The Liftr Cloud Components Tracker enumerates the instance types and sizes offered by the four largest clouds (Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, and GCP). Cloud computing offers customers choices in optimizing app performance and response times…