Data Centers
Data centers are being reinvented via virtualization, servers with better performance per watt and the increasingly popularity of cloud computing. Key vendors such as Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, VMware and others are all pushing to make the data center more efficient. Who will be the leader in next-gen data centers?
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PayPal adds a fourth datacenter as it expands into the non-virtual world
PayPal’s secure datacenter operations grow to support brick & mortar
Taiwan faces up to Open Compute Project's promise
Taiwan's Cloud Computing Association will be establishing a local chapter of the Open Compute Project to draw more local hardware makers to support Facebook's vision of an open data center.
Windows Azure's China debut set for June
Microsoft, via its official licensing partner 21Vianet, will offer the public preview version of its platform-as-a-service offering next month as it looks to tap China's cloud computing market potential.
NetApp hovers around fiscal Q4 revenue target; cutting 900 jobs
UPDATED: NetApp's CEO discusses with ZDNet more about 2014 goals and cost-cutting measures -- including approximately 900 layoffs worldwide.
VMware intros vCloud Hybrid Service to bridge cloud with datacenters
"Seamlessness starts with the software-defined datacenter," according to VMware's CEO.
Digital Realty institutionalizes Tier certifications
They've standardized on Tier III certification for their new datacenters worldwide.
The new NSA datacenter gets a surprise tax bill
It seems ironic, but the National Security Agency is caught by surprise by a new tax that impacts its new datacenter.
AMD makes good on its Open 3.0 Server
Can Open Compute go head to head with the likes of HP, IBM, and Dell in the datacenter?
London Olympic Park to house giant datacentre and tech cluster
A vast datacentre will be built in the former press and broadcast centre after a deal was signed between the London Legacy Development Corporation and Infinity.
Cisco's quarter, outlook upbeat; Eyes data center turf
Cisco CEO John Chambers said "we are dramatically better positioned than the traditional data center players such as HP, Dell, and IBM."
Amsterdam stakes its claim as European datacentre hub
Datacentres are slowly making their way onto the list of things that Amsterdam is synonymous with.
Three years later, the federal government is still clueless about consolidation
The five-year federal datacenter consolidation program still lacks metrics to measure actual cost savings.
Oracle targets government cloud deals with new UK datacentre
Oracle pushes ahead with its international cloud plans with the announcement of a new UK datacentre specifically for government services.
GM has a new $130 million datacenter
It will be "the computing backbone" for the automaker's global operations as it shrinks its 23-facility footprint to just two.