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Liftr Look Ahead: Q3 Earnings Calls Pt. 1 – AMD’s Latest Push Against Intel 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 chip vendors AMD, Intel and…
Liftr Look Ahead: Cores and GHz – Intel Xeon Runs the Processor Game 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 by adjusting the configurations and therefore the…
Liftr Look Ahead: Accelerator Chips – Why NVIDIA Dominates the Cloud IaaS Market http://bit.ly/2pmZov7 The cloud is accelerating toward the future! NVIDIA currently dominates the cloud IaaS market for high performance computing and deep learning acceleration. Matrix math is at the heart of deep learning and therefore the underpinning for most current artificial intelligence. Our…
Liftr Look Ahead: Compute Chips – Intel and AMD’s Biggest Cloud Threat What is the Topic? Today, our Liftr Cloud Components Tracker data shows that well over 90% of IaaS instance types are based on Intel Xeon processors. Will AMD EPYC processors take significant cloud market share from Intel, or will some other server processor…
Liftr Look Ahead: Instance Types and Sizes – Comparing across cloud providers What’s the topic? What are you renting with IaaS and how do you compare instance types across cloud providers? What is the controversy? Why should we care? It’s hard for a cloud customer to fairly compare instance types and sizes across clouds because…
Liftr Look Ahead: API Fest What’s the topic? Collecting public cloud data through public cloud APIs. Background and set up Liftr Insights gathers public information about public clouds. But what does “gathering public information about public clouds” mean, and why should you trust us to do that? Data privacy and security are hot topics…
Liftr Look Ahead: What’s in Your Cloud – IaaS What is the controversy? Why should we care? Migrating enterprise apps to the cloud is at the core of digital transformation, but it is not simple. Background and setup When IT was new, everyone had to write their software from scratch. We now live in an…
Liftr Look Ahead: Azure in Space What happened? In August 2019, SES announced that it is adopting the Open Network Automation Platform — ONAP — orchestration platform for scalable, automated delivery of satellite-enabled network services on Microsoft Azure. SES plans to provide global reach and fibre-like high-performance to Azure customers. What does this mean? This…
Liftr Look Ahead: VMworld 2019 What happened? At 2019 VMworld, VMware made it blindingly apparent that it is creating a walled garden for enterprise IT to enjoy a curated VMware-branded multi-cloud strategy. What does this mean? This is a good move for VMware, at least in the short-term, as it tries to capture the “early…
What happened? In recent years, artificial intelligence chip designs have grown in importance at the annual Hot Chips conference. However, this year AI and data center chips dominated, with many vendors unveiling next-generation AI and neural network accelerators not just for data center applications, but specifically designed for large-scale cloud data center deployments. NVIDIA tipped…