Research Papers

RESEARCH PAPER: HP Moonshot- An Accelerator for Hyperscale Workloads

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

Hyperscale data center customers have specialized workloads, and they are asking for specialized architectures and equipment to accelerate those workloads, with the goal of increasing data center density while decreasing power consumption and other costs.   In 2010, HP gave its Moonshot team a charter to break out of HP’s mainstream enterprise value propositions. Creating differentiation …

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RESEARCH PAPER: The Latest Extreme Low Power, Windows Tablets Now Ready for the Enterprise

By / Research, Research Papers, Tablet / May 1, 2020

The introduction of Apple’s iPad sent shock waves through the industry as it redefined end user’s expectations on design, battery life, simplicity, content and applications. Like PC purchases driven by end users and departments in the late 1980’s, iPads first entered the enterprise through executives, departments and end users. Apple added basic enterprise features and …

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RESEARCH PAPER: NextIO Enables Multivendor Converged Datacenters

By / Datacenter, Research, Research Papers, Server / May 1, 2020

Industry standard x86 server node performance has been improving at an increased pace as core counts and memory capacities have increased. This rapidly increasing compute density is driving a commensurate increase in the costs of implementing in-rack network architectures. The challenge is how to maintain a multivendor, best-in-class datacenter. One good solution is to consolidate …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Mobility is Not PC: Technology-Driven Differentiation in a PC+ World

By / Personal Computing, Research, Research Papers, Smartphone, Tablet / May 1, 2020

While having very different origins, the mobile and PC markets are starting to merge. Smartphones are an extension of the reliable, regulated and high quality feature phone purchased from mobile operators vs. the PC which comes from an open, unregulated, and price-driven beginning. Dividing the middle are media tablets that now offer features from both …

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RESEARCH PAPER: NVIDIA’s 2nd Generation Maximus

By / Research, Research Papers, Semiconductor / May 1, 2020

All of today’s sophisticated physical products like cars and media content like movies are designed then simulated on high-performance PCs, called workstations. Today, the design and simulation process is dictated by the technology, not the natural or most efficient way to work. Industry professionals in entertainment, media, sciences, and industrial design fields have been hindered …

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RESEARCH PAPER: HSA Foundation: Purpose and Outlook

By / Personal Computing, Research, Research Papers, Smartphone, Tablet / May 1, 2020

The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation, known as the “HSAF”, is an open, industry standard consortium founded to define and deliver open standards and tools for hardware and software to fully take advantage of high performance of parallel compute engines, and do so in the lowest possible power envelope. This new environment will enable rich …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Calxeda: Rack Trumps the Chip

By / Datacenter, Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

Calxeda has designed an innovative rack-level network fabric architecture for these new IT Services datacenters.  Calxeda’s architecture today connects dozens of densely packed, independent server nodes, and will scale in the future to deliver greater operational efficiencies across these new service-oriented mega-datacenters. Moor Insights & Strategy analyzes the new Calxeda roadmap and technologies in the context …

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RESEARCH PAPER: NVIDIA VGX Technology

By / Gaming, Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

NVIDIA today launched one of the most significant initiatives in the history of the company that, if delivered as promised, could propel them into a position as a top enterprise technology player. Called “NVIDIA VGX”, NVIDIA strives to remove many of the remaining barriers that have stood in the way of full cloud VDI implementations, …

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