The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/ 32 32 86113652 Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:37:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145327 In many ways, Arista Networks still behaves like a startup even though it was founded twenty years ago, rollout out its first products a little more than a decade and a half ago, went public a decade ago, and now as over 10,000 customers and over 100 million Ethernet ports sold that generated a cumulative $32 billion in revenues for hardware, software, and support. …

Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/feed/ 0 145327 Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:47:57 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145323 People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. …

Gordian Knot: Broadcom And TSMC To Cut Intel Into Two? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/18/gordian-knot-broadcom-and-tsmc-to-cut-intel-into-two/feed/ 5 145323 German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:45:06 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145314 The quantum computing space is replete with big-name companies like IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Intel touting incremental but important steps they’re taking to bring the long-promised technology to the fore. …

German HPC Center Is The First Buyer For New D-Wave Quantum Computer was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/german-hpc-center-is-the-first-buyer-for-new-d-wave-quantum-computer/feed/ 0 145314 The Hidden Cost Of Compromise: Why HPC Still Demands Precision https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/the-hidden-cost-of-compromise-why-hpc-still-demands-precision/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/the-hidden-cost-of-compromise-why-hpc-still-demands-precision/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:16:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145312 PARTNER CONTENT: As the technology industry continues its shift towards AI dominance, an important schism is opening up that threatens to impact scientific progress, along with important humanitarian endeavors such as disaster response. …

The Hidden Cost Of Compromise: Why HPC Still Demands Precision was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/13/the-hidden-cost-of-compromise-why-hpc-still-demands-precision/feed/ 4 145312 Cisco Is The Bellwether Of Enterprise AI Adoption https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/cisco-is-the-bellwether-of-enterprise-ai-adoption/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/cisco-is-the-bellwether-of-enterprise-ai-adoption/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:04:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145306 While the hyperscalers and big cloud builders all are racing as fast as they can to build the biggest – and presumably the best – models, or collections of models, to win the AI race and become the Microsoft or Red Hat of commercial-grade models, the acquisition of AI hardware and envelope pushing on AI model architecture is not indicative of the adoption of AI by enterprises. …

Cisco Is The Bellwether Of Enterprise AI Adoption was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/cisco-is-the-bellwether-of-enterprise-ai-adoption/feed/ 0 145306 HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:07:33 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145300 Hewlett Packard Enterprise last summer introduced the first of its Gen12 ProLiant systems, packed with Nvidia’s latest GPU accelerators and aimed squarely at the rapidly expanding AI space that in less than two years went from prompt-and-respond chatbots to AI agents that can reason, plan, and collaborate on their own. …

HPE Sets Gen12 ProLiant Servers Loose On AI And The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/12/hpe-sets-gen12-proliant-servers-loose-on-ai-and-the-edge/feed/ 0 145300 Extended “Blackwell” GPU Ramp Cools Growth At Supermicro https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/extended-blackwell-gpu-ramp-cools-growth-at-supermicro/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/extended-blackwell-gpu-ramp-cools-growth-at-supermicro/#comments Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:57:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145296 Nvidia may be shipping its “Blackwell” B100, B200, and GB200 compute engines, but not in enough volumes for server maker Supermicro to meet its revenue expectations in the quarter ended in December. …

Extended “Blackwell” GPU Ramp Cools Growth At Supermicro was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/extended-blackwell-gpu-ramp-cools-growth-at-supermicro/feed/ 1 145296 Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/cisco-cuts-network-costs-by-welding-nexus-switch-to-amd-dpu/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/cisco-cuts-network-costs-by-welding-nexus-switch-to-amd-dpu/#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:31:06 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145287 There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. …

Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/11/cisco-cuts-network-costs-by-welding-nexus-switch-to-amd-dpu/feed/ 0 145287 Intel Datacenter Chief Departs To Run Nokia – Now What? https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/10/intel-datacenter-chief-departs-to-run-nokia-now-what/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/10/intel-datacenter-chief-departs-to-run-nokia-now-what/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:42:05 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145285 After only a little more than a year of running Intel’s Data Center and AI group – which is probably about as much fun right now as falling down the stairs – Justin Hotard has departed the chip maker to become the next chief executive officer of Nokia, which interestingly enough has a renewed interest in building cloud networks and making money at that. …

Intel Datacenter Chief Departs To Run Nokia – Now What? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/10/intel-datacenter-chief-departs-to-run-nokia-now-what/feed/ 3 145285 Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/07/amazon-will-spend-nearly-a-year-of-aws-revenue-on-ai-investments/#comments Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:02:52 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145278 There is a bit of AI spending one-upmanship going on among the hyperscalers and cloud builders – and now the foundation model builders who are partnering with their new sugar daddies to be able to afford to build vast AI accelerator estates to push the state of the art in model capabilities and intelligence. …

Amazon Will Spend Nearly A Year Of AWS Revenue On AI Investments was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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