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 Micron 9300 NVMe SSDs allows cloud and enterprise customers near real-time access to data by offering the industry’s lowest average write latency.
Machine learning (ML), the most common form that AI takes today, relies on huge masses of data to train models. So an ML-enabled file system seems like a no-brainer. Here's the first one.
The multi-year extension demonstrates Dell's commitment to the converged infrastructure market.
768k Day expected within the month, reminiscent of 512k Day when AT&T, BT, Comcast, Sprint, and Verizon all went down.
Gartner said currency fluctuations will ding global IT spending, but the data center market will contract.
A report from the General Accountability Office, which weighs in as a 98 page PDF, is an indictment of US government technology and data center operations.
Employees, data, and resources are three of the biggest assets in any organization. All employees should be familiar with the processes for recovering information if it becomes lost, inaccessible, or compromised....
Equinix is a key player in integrating data centers and public cloud providers. Its ECX Fabric adds more software-defined features.
Microsoft sets new environmental targets and doubles its internal carbon tax.
A micro data center, a mini version of a data center rack, could work as edge computing takes hold in various industries. Here's a look at the moving parts behind the micro data center concept.
Google rolled out MTA-STS and TLS Reporting support for Gmail servers today, April 10, 2019.
Non-volatile Solid State Drives (SSDs) revolutionized data storage. Will Intel's non-volatile DIMMs do the same to servers? Researchers at UC San Diego just released their test results. Here's what you need to know.
The Australian company plans to boost its APAC presence by building a new 60+ megawatt hyperscale data centre in Singapore.
CEO Thomas Kurian has made his mark on Google Cloud Platform with a strategy that's enterprise friendly and focused on industries. Here's what you need to know.
Tired of using many databases? FaunaDB wants to be the all-in-one solution for polyglot persistence in the cloud and on premise, and it just got SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
The platform is geared toward planning and modeling the data center operations of large enterprises and companies behind colocation services.
Lenovo showed journalists around its recently opened campus in Beijing, which aims to create a 'Silicon Valley environment' for its 10,000-plus employees.
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.
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Google rolled out MTA-STS and TLS Reporting support for Gmail servers on April 10, 2019.
The Australian company plans to boost its APAC presence by building a new 60+ megawatt hyperscale data centre in Singapore.
ZDNet's Larry Dignan outlines what's driving the micro data center movement and why the idea isn't so crazy despite the masses going cloud.
GPU giant unveils new CUDA-X label for its software stack.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is betting that data science will meld data centers with high-performance computing. Here's why it makes sense.
With Australia one of the biggest global users of Webex, Cisco is building a new Sydney-based data centre.
In its annual security intelligence report, Microsoft offers up its top tips for blocking out hackers.
Deliveries are going green, but what about that cloud computing data center?
Facebook and Twitter are in breach of laws requiring personal data to be kept on Russian soil, say the authorities.
Australia telco claims its new rapid restoration service will reduce outages on subsea cables to under 30 minutes.
The new service offers centralised backup in the cloud and on-premises.
LG Chem will invest 1.2 trillion won -- around $1.07 billion -- to expand its battery factories in Nanjing to meet rising demand for electric vehicles and home appliances in China.
Australia's national broadband wholesaler is looking to speed things up with software-defined networking.
The 1,000 yen tax will be charged on plane and boat tickets and used to fund facial recognition initiatives at airports.
Follows thousands of EWN customers receiving a bogus message via email, text, and landline late Saturday night.
The Toshiba Qosmio G30 is the most feature-rich home entertainment notebook we've seen to date, bar none.
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Some internet outages predicted for the coming month as '768k Day' approaches
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ICANN: There is an ongoing and significant risk to DNS infrastructure
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Over 13K iSCSI storage clusters left exposed online without a password
