The past couple of years have seen rising interest in and considerable promotion of servers and appliances based on the ARM microprocessor architecture. At first glance, the narrative makes some sense. ARM’s native performance and energy efficiency, when multiplied across hundreds or thousands of systems, looks impressive for supporting certain kinds of workloads common in Web 2.0, social networking and search sites. That’s especially the case when ARM silicon is leveraged in concert with innovative fabric technologies.
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Will ARM Get a Cold Shoulder from Data Center Owners?
Posted by: Charles King January 14, 2014 05:00 AMThe past couple of years have seen rising interest in and considerable promotion of servers and appliances based on the ARM microprocessor architecture. At first glance, the narrative makes some sense. ARM’s native performance and energy efficiency, when multiplied across hundreds or thousands of systems, looks impressive for supporting certain kinds of workloads common in Web 2.0, social networking and search sites. That’s especially the case when ARM silicon is leveraged in concert with innovative fabric technologies.