Data centers are being reinvented via virtualization, servers with better performance per watt, and the increasing 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.
Facebook has to run lots of live tests to figure out which configurations are best for its HTTP servers, and it sped up the search for optimal settings by employing a machine learning approach called Bayesian optimization to narrow the list of plausible solutions.
The move gives NetApp more of a DevOps spin on multi-cloud deployments.
Lenovo gets to ramp its storage portfolio using NetApp software. In addition, the two companies will form a joint venture in China to target the local cloud service market.
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At the IT level, services are shared more than ever, thanks to cloud.
Now that the services used by an enterprise and provided to its customers may be hosted on servers in the public cloud or on-premises, maybe "hybrid cloud" isn't an architecture any more. While that may the case, that's not stopping some in the digital transformation business from proclaiming it a way of work unto itself.
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The system is powered by the latest Intel Xeons as well as Nvidia Tesla GPUs.
Court deems majority owner 360 Capital eligible to vote on whether the Asia Pacific Data Centres Trust is to be wound up.
Eclypsium researchers disclose second vulnerability affecting Supermicro servers in the past three months
The company also raised its outlook for the fiscal year and said it is benefiting from a strong upgrade cycle fueled by digital transformation.
To be operational in 2022, the new facility will span 11 storeys and see the social media company invest S$1.4 billion (US$1.02 billion) in the country.
The datacentre services provider has reported AU$161.5 million in revenue, but its profit dropped by AU$16 million.
Macquarie Telecom has announced datacentre capacity expansions, as well as government cloud and cybersecurity growth to the tune of an additional AU$1.5 million in opex.
Survey finds 83 percent of IT leaders fear they actually could be fired if their digital transformation efforts fail.
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The Nordic countries' low outside temperatures, cheap power, and stable economies are proving hard for tech giants to resist when it comes to siting new datacenters.
Norway's newest white-space data center has opened in a former mine. Lefdal Mine Datacenter could become the world's largest once of three of its five levels are filled.
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Inside an 11-storey datacenter in the heart of London's Docklands.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
IBM is betting that its cloudMatrix software will enable it to make a pivot from a systems integrator to a services integrator.
At about 50 miles from the Arctic Circle, the frequent -25C (-13F) winter temperatures make the question of how to keep equipment racks cool less of an issue for the Hydro 66 datacenter.
If you haven't heard of data furnaces, you soon will ... especially if you hate your winter energy bill.
The fall of the Iron Curtain in early 1990s left a number of military facilities across Europe without a purpose. Here's one that's re-emerged as a datacenter.
As well as acting as the hub for a grid of scientific institutions around the world, CERN's datacenter has to cope with vast amounts of raw data from its particle physics experiments.
Managed cloud firm Rackspace says the design and technology in its latest datacenter could slice as much as 80 percent off energy overheads compared with typical builds.
Located in Canberra, the National Computational Infrastructure stores and manages access to more than 10 petabytes of national and international data sets, including from the Bureau of Meteorology, the World Climate Research Programme, and observation data from NASA.
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Court deems majority owner 360 Capital eligible to vote on whether the Asia Pacific Data Centres Trust is to be wound up.
To be operational in 2022, the new facility will span 11 storeys and see the social media company invest S$1.4 billion ($1.02 billion) in the country. Read more: https://zd.net/2wOGei9
Macquarie Telecom has announced datacentre capacity expansions, as well as government cloud and cybersecurity growth to the tune of an additional AU$1.5 million in opex. Read more: https://zd.net/2MV97mj
Perth's PE2 datacentre will boast a total capacity of 700 cabinets and an estimated collocation space of 1,720 square metres upon completion. Read more: https://zd.net/2Ng8TCQ
Macquarie Telecom has said it will be expanding its Macquarie Park Intellicentre in a staged process, with the first part to cost between AU$75 million and AU$85 million in capex during 2019. Read more: https://zd.net/2KxtPDs
Enterprise data centers will vanish over the next seven years. So where does all that data go?
Intuit said it has sold its largest data center to H5 Data Centers as it aims to speed up its move to the cloud. Read more: https://zd.net/2Lte3Ld
The latest batch of tariffs from President Trump's trade war on China is likely going to affect the IT sector.
AMD did something that was long overdue -- it upended a stagnant and complacent server market, and all in a year.
Liquid cooling in the data center was usually reserved for supercomputing. Lenovo is betting that cooling techniques will go mainstream.
Microsoft drops data center into the sea: 'It will keep working for five years'
With the new system, Facebook will be able to consider less temperate environments for data center construction.
Intel announces what it calls a new tier of memory for memory-intensive workloads.
Startup Burlywood plans to rearchitect flash SSDs so even hyperscale data centers can go all flash. Here's how.
Intel's Spectre variant 4 patch will be off by default, but users who turn it on are likely to see slower performance.
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