The security world's paranoiacs have long cautioned that if a computer falls into a stranger's hands, it shouldn't be trusted again. Now one company's researchers have demonstrated how, in some cases, ...

While most public cloud infrastructure has full-on server virtualization to dice and slice the compute, memory, and I/O capacity of iron so companies can share it, not every workload runs well atop ...

AWS recently announced new bare metal instances for Amazon EC2. The new M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances are already available and can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. The new bare metal ...

Liqid, a spelling-challenged startup that has been gaining visibility as a provider of composable infrastructure products, revealed this week at the Supercomputing 2017 conference that its Liqid Grid ...

AppLovin is a 4-year old marketing platform that places advertisements in mobile apps. And it’s a data-intensive business to say the least. When AppLovin learns of an advertising opportunity in an app ...

There are two kinds of virtual machine managers, but for servers, data centers, and clouds there's only one that matters: Bare metal hypervisors Once upon a time, there was nothing but native, or bare ...

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These little-known cloud resources offer lower latency and higher compute power but are best for specific use cases. Here’s how to determine when they offer reasonable solutions. I did something last ...

The latest generation of Nvidia GPUs for machine learning and number crunching will be offered via IBM Bluemix, but only on bare metal and not more malleable VM types Most major cloud vendors have, or ...