{"id":3634,"date":"2012-09-14T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2362168"},"modified":"2012-09-14T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:56:00","slug":"hardware-systems-born-for-the-cloud-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hardware-systems-born-for-the-cloud-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Systems Born for the Cloud &amp; Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD finds itself in the increasing novel situation \u2013 sorta like Microsoft with its promised Surface tablets \u2013 of possibly competing against its OEMs with a system \u2013 and not just a box with Intel chips in it \u2013 which is novel enough, imagine AMD selling Intel chips \u2013 but a complete plug-and-play system with scads of external storage that it\u2019s building itself.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the first time AMD has gone into the storage business and it owes this little adventure in vertical integration to its $334 million acquisition of micro server maker SeaMicro earlier this year.<br \/>\nSeaMicro builds dense, energy-efficient micro servers that are aimed at the 500 top clouds and Big Data houses. AMD bought SeaMicro out from under Intel in February as a way to backstroke out of its evaporating PC pool.<br \/>\nIronically it was Intel that predicted that micro servers would claim 10% of the server market by 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2362168\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD finds itself in the increasing novel situation \u2013 sorta like Microsoft with its promised Surface tablets \u2013 of possibly competing against its OEMs with a system \u2013 and not just a box with Intel chips in it \u2013 which is novel enough, imagine AMD &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}