Startups are still throwing themselves into the enterprise platform as a service market as big businesses finally accept that building out private clouds –or trusting public ones– are essential for agility. Read more »
Dark architecture addresses some of the issues, and lessens the risks, for companies that are switching over and making major changes in their infrastructure. Read more »
Building boards and designing circuits are all the rage in the consumer gadget world, but Facebook and the Open Compute Project are trying to bring that spirit to the enterprise. Read more »
Networking is about to enter the modern era, where vendors no longer control the ecosystem says JR Rivers, the CEO and founder of Cumulus Networks. Read more »
Facebook has never been direct about the number of servers it has, but today at the GigaOM Structure conference, one of its executives let slip that it runs “hundreds of thousands… Read more »
Facebook experiences 1,000 times more traffic inside its data centers than it sends to and receives from outside users. That traffic growth has prompted the social network to design a fabric… Read more »
AMD is betting big on ARM chips in the data center because the demands of client computing have changed the way computing and data centers are built and designed. Read more »
Switches are the last bastion of the vertically integrated box inside the data center. Many companies want to change that and Cumulus Networks hopes to help by offering a Linux-based OS… Read more »
As more companies build their businesses on cloud infrastructure, it’s important to not only understand the technical decisions behind their architecture, but also the economic ones. That’s one of the topics… Read more »
The IT industry is undergoing a cataclysm of innovation that is disrupting big businesses, offering opportunities for entrepreneurs and redefining the role of IT in the corporation. GigaOM’s Structure event helps… Read more »