I am delighted to announce that both general-purpose and high frequency 4^th Gen AMD EPYC processors extend their competitive performance edge to include equivalent 5^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors in both power efficiency and across a wide range of workloads that include foundational workloads, virtualized infrastructure, decision support systems, business applications, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Finite Element Analysis (FEA), molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and weather forecasting.

There is no one set journey to AI enablement.  AI (and the infrastructure to run it) will take many forms. Many enterprises will follow different paths based on their specific goals, business and technical priorities and other considerations. But no matter where your enterprise is ultimately headed in the AI era, AMD EPYC processor-powered servers offer the platform to take you there as your needs evolve.

This week, we introduced two additional processor models to the 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ processor family at the Datacenter and AI Technology Premier. I am excited to take this opportunity to provide an update on the software ecosystem readiness and showcase some of the performance proof points for the AMD EPYC 97x4 processors.

In this blog, I will discuss the ways that AMD and VMware have worked together to make migrating from Legacy IT Infrastructures easy!

In order to understand Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), a brief history of the evolution of the legacy data center to the modern-day data center is needed.

We talked in a previous AMD blog about enterprise IT teams moving to Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), as well as the new Dell EMC VxRail systems with AMD EPYC^TM processors. The evolution toward HCI allows enterprises to consolidate multiple pieces of function-specific hardware into more manageable clusters. This is accomplished leveraging advancements in software defined networking capabilities and high-performance virtualization technologies in a more general-purpose server.

New Dell Technologies HCI systems are the latest to tap AMD EPYC™processors to deliver efficient infrastructure and simplified management for the enterprise 

Editor's Note: We invite you to join Greg Gibby, AMD data center expert, on Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 11am CDT as he provides insights on how to deliver the most from your HCI deployment. Please register for the webinar here

As AMD celebrates 50 years as a company, one of our latest innovations for the enterprise, the AMD EPYC™ processors, have gained momentum across datacenter and cloud computing segments. One of the key areas where we see tremendous traction is in hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). Today we are excited to announce a technology partnership with Nutanix, an established leader in hyperconvergence delivering a full software stack that integrates compute, virtualization, storage, networking and security to power applications at scale.