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.
The new facility is expected to come online in 2021 and to employ between 150 and 250 people.
Pure Storage is launching its software on AWS to run natively and bridge on-premises deployments. Think hybrid infrastructure to hybrid applications on multiple cloud.
Edge computing is being sought out for faster response and cost savings, but there are concerns about security and latency when large volumes of data are processed on such platforms.
IBM's services unit said it is aiming to speed up multi-cloud deployment processes by using its algorithms in its Cloud Migration Factory.
Digital Erskine Park II in Western Sydney is the fifth Australian facility operated by the California headquartered company.
NetApp's all-flash array product line is now on an annual revenue run rate of $2.2 billion.
Despite an increase in the amount of data stored and used in the enterprise, data center automation adoptions appear sluggish. To better understand how companies automate their data centers, including...
The Indigo submarine cable will land in NextDC's P1, P2, S1, and S2 datacentres across Perth and Sydney.
It's a new and emerging class of service manager for distributed computing -- one that can work hand-in-hand with orchestrators such as Kubernetes. The service mesh would build a "Layer 7 network" exclusively for applications. And the changes it would make could reignite old debates about network architecture.
A large chunk of the hijacked traffic passed through the network of a controversial Chinese state-owned telecom provider that was previously accused of intentionally misdirecting internet traffic.
Some apps are more suited to serverless environments than others - how to know which?
IETF agrees to base the next major iteration of HTTP on Google's QUIC protocol
Enterprise data centers can't compete with hyperscale clouds, mostly due to labor costs, which are as much as 70 percent of EDC expense. But what if enterprises could logically scale far beyond Amazon and Google? That's what Maxta - among others - is working to do.
Vodafone New Zealand and Ciena are deploying programmable capabilities to the network in order to prepare for 5G and IoT applications.
Cisco's Container Platform will harmonize with Amazon's EKS to manage Kubernetes containers on-premises and the public cloud.
Seventh backdoor account discovered in Cisco Small Business Switches firmware.
A tour of the best storage solutions available for professionals, covering everything from flash drives you can pop into your pocket to behemoth server-grade hard drives.
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.
With more businesses and applications moving data to the cloud, even small outages can be devastating. By studying the worst cloud fails, we can find clues to avoiding future problems.
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.
How one telecoms company benefited from Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Yes, it's Halloween of 2014, and we're here to revisit the technologies that are so frightening, they'll make you evacuate from multiple "interfaces".
The Indigo submarine cable will land in NextDC's P1, P2, S1, and S2 datacentres across Perth and Sydney.
Today's data centers remain the nerve center of the enterprise, and automation is powering new levels of agility and digital transformation.
Chinese government turned to local ISP for intelligence gathering after it signed the Obama-Xi cyber pact in late 2015, researchers say. Read more: https://zd.net/2Rf8OkA
The datacentre provider has gone back in with an offer of AU$2 per security to acquire the remaining interest in Asia Pacific Data Centres.
If you're still getting up to speed on what edge computing is and how it can help your business, we've got you covered.
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.
The Toshiba Qosmio G30 is the most feature-rich home entertainment notebook we've seen to date, bar none.
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