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Virtualization for the Masses
Instead of forcing customers to always cater to infrastructure vendors, AMD instead brings virtualization to the masses for the long-term, so information can flow more easily no matter what generation of hardware you have in your data center or PC. Continue reading
AMD Best Practices Series: Understanding the Bigger Picture of VMmark Benchmarks
(also read this post at VMblog.com here) At AMD, we constantly hear from customers about different issues they are grappling with. It’s not to say that all customers face the same issues, but we certainly see a few common themes … Continue reading
Simply Spectacular Virtualization Part II
AMD recently received a series of comments via Twitter from Intel about the configurations used for the “VMmark Systems” in the “Simply Spectacular Virtualization” blog. They wanted us to re-price our 64GB machine based on 8x8GB memory configuration. The last “tweet” closed … Continue reading
Simply Spectacular Virtualization
Seems like the industry wants to treat virtualization like a “high performance computing” workload. There is a growing obsession with hardware vendors (including AMD) to tout top VMmark benchmark scores. The truth is any analysis of virtualization performance needs to … Continue reading
Silos are for grain storage
I have been watching the media coverage after our competitor finally brought out their new products last week with an architecture strongly reminiscent of AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture. One thing I noticed is that as the week went on, more … Continue reading
Return on Hype
Do yourself a favor, don’t let your company fall for the “pays for itself in 8 months” hype that’s out there – do your own research and get the full story with all the costs revealed. Continue reading
Sacrifice Nothing
With today’s focus on "green IT" and energy efficiency, it’s no wonder that the interest in low power processors continues to grow. Even when AMD (and a handful of very insightful customers) could see that low power computing was the … Continue reading
The Importance of Consistency
I was reading today about the Oakland Raiders’ latest fired coach filing a grievance for the salary he still believes he is owed. That got me thinking that just five years ago the Oakland Raiders were in a Super Bowl. … Continue reading
What's in a Name?
Before I get into this week’s thought, let me emphasize the point I made last week regarding the importance of the O-Line as the foundation of the offense. I painfully sat through the entire Steelers vs. Eagles game this week … Continue reading
The times they are a'changing…
Leading into this year’s VMWorld conference in Las Vegas, all the buzz was about changes at VMWare. And after attending the conference, I’m here to tell you that the times they are a’changing. But it’s not all bad news for … Continue reading
