AMD’s Server CPU market share raises to 8.9% in Q1 2021, biggest gain against Intel since 2006
As per the Mercury Research report, AMD server CPU market share reaches 8.9% in Q1 2021 and analysts predict that this growth trend will continue in the coming months. Last time, AMD saw it’s server CPU market share peak in 2006 with the success of its 64-bit Opteron processors. In 2006, AMD’s server CPU market … Read more
NVIDIA Grace – First data center CPU from NVIDIA
NVIDIA is building ARM-based processor code name ‘GRACE’ which targets the AI and HPC communities. After AWS’s Graviton processor, it seems ARM is making serious inroads into the data center and cloud segments. NVIDIA announced its first data center CPU, an Arm-based processor that will deliver 10x the performance of today’s fastest servers on the … Read more
ARM in the Data Center
AWS Graviton processors are custom built by Amazon Web Services using 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. Amazon EC2 provides the broadest and deepest portfolio of compute instances, including many that are powered by latest-generation Intel and AMD processors. AWS Graviton processors add … Read more
Qualcomm leads smartphone app processor market with 31% of revenue share in 2020
Thanks to the demand for the popular Snapdragon series, Qualcomm was leading the smartphone AP market on year 2020 with 31% of revenue share. With 23% share, Apple was in the second position boosted by it’s A14 Bionic, followed by HiSilicon with 18% market share. Mediatek was narrowly behind HiSilicon in the 4th position with … Read more
Data Center Standards
Data Center Standards – Tier I to IV PARAMETERS Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Uptime Guarantee 99.671% 99.741% 99.982% 99.995% Redundancy None Partial power and cooling redundancy (partial N+1) Full N+1 2N+1 Power Protection None Partial At least 72-hour power outage protection 96-hour power outage protection Downtime per year <28.8 Hours <22 … Read more
pfSence Web GUI access via WAN interface
To open the firewall GUI via WAN interface, create a firewall rule to allow remote firewall administration. Firewall > Rules, under WAN Tab Action: pass Interface: WAN Protocol: TCP Source: The IP address or subnet of the client, an alias containing management hosts/networks, or (not recommended) Any Destination: WAN Address Destination port range: HTTPS Description: … Read more
Japan’s Fugaku Retains Title as World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Fujitsu Limited Tokyo, November 17, 2020 The supercomputer Fugaku, which is being developed jointly by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited based on Arm® technology, has again taken the top spot on the major high-performance computer rankings, including the Top500 list, in all of the rankings posting much higher scores than the runners-up. The other rankings are … Read more
Juniper Networks Announces Intent to Acquire 128 Technology
Combined AI-Driven Enterprise Portfolio Will Optimize User Experiences from Client-to-Cloud with Proactive AIOps, Insights and Unique Self-Driving Network™ Actions Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 128 Technology. The deal will enhance Juniper’s AI-driven enterprise network portfolio by uniting 128 Technology’s … Read more
Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure 2020
VMware, Fortinet, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks are among the Leaders in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. As per Gartner, The market for branch office WAN edge functionality continues to rapidly shift from dedicated routing, security and WAN optimization appliances to feature-rich SD-WAN. SD-WAN is replacing traditional branch routers with application aware path … Read more