Chris DePuy

Technology Analyst and co-founder of 650 Group

650 Group’s Latest Cloud Market Report Shows Us Hyperscalers Set Cloud Revenue And Capex Records In 2Q’21

Semiconductor and Supply Chain Shortages Limit Data Center Buildouts Incline Village, NV.  August 23, 2021 —  According to a newly released report issued by the 650 Group, US hyperscaler cloud market revenue grew 43% Y/Y in 2Q21 while the supply chain for Data Center Equipment into hyperscalers performed unevenly due… Read More »650 Group’s Latest Cloud Market Report Shows Us Hyperscalers Set Cloud Revenue And Capex Records In 2Q’21

Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; And Announces European Customer, 1&1

​Today, Rakuten announced that has acquired the rest of Open RAN startup, Altiostar.  It already owned 67% of the pioneering vendor, and paid another $370 million to acquire the rest, at a valuation just over $1 billion.  The company is adding Altiostar to its Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) capabilities now known… Read More »Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; And Announces European Customer, 1&1

Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; and Announces European Customer, 1&1

​Today, Rakuten announced that has acquired the rest of Open RAN startup, Altiostar.  It already owned 67% of the pioneering vendor, and paid another $370 million to acquire the rest, at a valuation just over $1 billion.  The company is adding Altiostar to its Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) capabilities now… Read More »Rakuten Acquires Altiostar; and Announces European Customer, 1&1

Higher Speeds In Ethernet Changing The Top-of-rack To Server Topologies

Migrating Features to Active Cables to Support Performance and Reliability Traditional enterprise data centers have an Achilles heel – the single TOR per rack architecture.  If that TOR fails, it takes the entire rack offline, and as Microsft recently published, this happens at least 2% of the time in the first… Read More »Higher Speeds In Ethernet Changing The Top-of-rack To Server Topologies