Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: June 4, 2021

It's Happening. Arm Server CPUs are Coming to the Data Center - Whatever doubts still linger about Arm's future in the data center, they are quickly dissipating.

Rocky Linux, CentOS Founder’s AWS-Sponsored CentOS Stand-in, Stresses Extensibility - It won't be the first CentOS replacement out the door, but it's being designed to become much more than a RHEL clone.

Oracle Cloud Claims Arm Video Performance Advantage Over x86 Chips - The cloud provider’s benchmark data compares Ampere’s Arm chips with AMD Rome and Milan and Intel Skylake.

Istio v Linkerd: The Former May Be More Service Mesh Than You Need - Linkerd developer points to hidden overhead costs in Istio, suggesting that the most popular service mesh isn't right for everyone.

Cisco Designs UCS X-Series Servers and Intersight for Hybrid Cloud - It’s also laying the groundwork for a disaggregated, composable infrastructure play similar to HPE’s.