To modernize its servers and increase their performance, Shadow chose AMD. In a press release shared this week, the firm is pleased to have been able to bring its EPYC solutions to the service of the Parisian cloud computing player.
Shadow chose Lisa Su’s firm to help boost its cloud. We learn in a press release from AMD that the French group, a cloud PC supplier, can now count on 32-core AMD EPYC chips.Milano», 3rd generation. AMD does not give the exact reference of the chips used, but a look at the official Shadow site directs us to the EPYC 7543P processors. These chips include 32 cores and 64 threads, clocked at a maximum of 3.7 GHz, and are equipped with 256 MB of L3 cache.
As specified by AMD, a single one of these processors can serve up to eight different clients, each then inheriting an equivalent of 4 cores and 8 threads. In its press release, the group also mentions “65% higher overall performancecompared to the solutions formerly used at Shadow, without specifying whether this gain will be visible to end customers.
Improved performance and reduced operating costs
For Shadow, the benefit is not only to be found in the performance offered by AMD chips; they are not quite the latest generation, the 4th cuvée of CPU EPYC, alias “Genoa“, having been launched at the beginning of November. The French group also benefits from lower operating costs by opting for AMD server solutions. A strategy which also aims to improve the profitability of the company after the increase in prices made in 2021.
Note, however, that Shadow does not yet put all its eggs in one basket. A significant part of its offer (particularly on the entry-level formula “Shadow PC”) still relies on Intel Xeon processors. For AMD, the next step could therefore be to kick Intel completely out of the Shadow servers.
In the meantime, and at the user level, the question of the profitability of Shadow solutions against a real PC still deserves to be asked.
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