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Non-Board OCP Equipment Purchases Top $1.2B in 2017; 5 year CAGR forecast of 59%

Executive Summary: The OCP (Open Compute Project) commissioned IHS Markit to do a market study of who, besides OCP Board members, were using OCP specified hardware and to estimate/forecast the resulting revenue.  Also, to identify concerns and barriers to successful deployments.  Cliff Grossner, Ph.D. Sr. Research Director & Advisor Cloud & Data Center Research Practice […]

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Alan Weissberger Cloud Computing Smart Home

Alexa Lost Her Voice on Friday and Isn’t Learning as Advertised

Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa went down on Friday while speaking the wrong error messages to customers.  During a ½ hour span Friday morning, I heard the following from Alexa on my Echo device, Amazon Fire Tablet and Fire TV stick:  “I’m having trouble understanding right now… try again later.” “Your echo device lost its WiFi […]

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Alan Weissberger Cloud Computing

HOT Interconnects (HOTi) Summary- Part I. Building Large Scale Data Center Networks

The annual IEEE Hot Interconnects conference was held August 24-25, 2016 in Santa Clara, CA. We review selected presentations in a series of conference summary articles. In this Part I. piece, we focus on design considerations for large-scale Data Centers (DCs) that are operated by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

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Alan Weissberger Cloud Computing Software Defined Network

2015 Hot Interconnects Summary Part I – Oracle, Intel, and Facebook Talks

Introduction: In this first of a multi-part series on the excellent Hot Interconnects 2015 conference, held in Santa Clara, CA, August 26-28, 2015, we highlight presentations from three major IT infrastructure vendors: Oracle, Intel, and Facebook. A follow on article will examine Huawei’s open source activities, Deep Machine Learning and its networking applications (from Brocade Research), […]

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Alan Weissberger Cloud Computing

2015 Hot Interconnects Summary Part II – Huawei, Brocade/Deep Machine Learning, SD-WAN

Introduction: In this second of a multi-part series on the Hot Interconnects 2015 conference, held in Santa Clara, CA August 26-28, 2015, we cover: Huawei’s open source activities, Deep Machine Learning and its application to networking (from Brocade’s Research Dept), and Software Defined WANs (which is a much broader topic than SDN for WANs). The […]

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