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RangeAmp attacks can take down websites and CDN servers
Twelve of thirteen CDN providers said they fixed or planned to fix the problem.
HPE's Q2 stung by COVID-19 economic fallout, misses estimates
HPE did say it was making progress on its as-a-service pivot and exited the second quarter with twice the usual order backlog. The company is cutting executive salaries and looking to realign its workforce to focus on growth areas.
Schneider Electric launches monitoring, dispatch services for edge computing sites
With Monitoring & Dispatch Services, Schneider Electric is using the playbook from industrial giants.
Dell Technologies, Google Cloud tighten up integration, storage links for data heavy workloads
The launch of Dell Technologies Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud is an effort to create a flow of data across both clouds.
Coles shuffles data management into the cloud
It opens up the ability for the company's data science team to use machine learning and advanced analytics.
What will the Bitcoin halving event do for blockchain and digital commerce?
On May 11, the amount earned to process a Bitcoin (BTC) transaction on the blockchain halved. And that could be a big problem for the miners that process the transactions.
Nvidia Ampere, plus the world’s most complex motherboard, will fuel gigantic AI models
Nvidia unveiled its latest data center chip architecture, Ampere, and a motherboard to power multi-chip servers for AI. The company sees ever-more-gigantic neural networks in coming years.
Microsoft releases more open-sourced cloud datacenter components, specs
Microsoft is continuing its work with the OCP on open-sourced hardware, software, algorithms and other building-block technologies for cloud datacenter infrastructure.
AWS' Graviton2 M6g instances generally available: Watch demand closely
AWS' M6g instances are generally available and the company plans more options shortly. Now we'll see if AWS' home-grown ARM processors are going to be disruptive.
How fire departments can extinguish money, space, and data loss with the cloud
On-premises data centers are hurting first responders, but the cloud can help.
Digital Ocean says it exposed customer data after it left an internal document online
Digital Ocean says no customer servers were accessed following this security lapse.
Cognizant expects to lose between $50m and $70m following ransomware attack
Cognizant says April ransomware incident will negatively impact Q2 revenue.
Microsoft to add new cloud regions in Italy, New Zealand and Poland
In the span of a week, Microsoft announced plans to add three new datacenter regions in countries where it doesn't currently have them.
Cloud storage needs disruption and Backblaze has delivered the goods
Cloud storage value leader Backblaze has added S3-compatible APIs, making it even easier to save a lot of money on cloud storage. It's about time!
Search provider Algolia discloses security incident due to Salt vulnerability
Algolia now joins the ranks of LineageOS, Ghost, Digicert, and Xen Orchestra.
What a brand new data center looks like - from the inside
Kao Data has just started operating a 40,000 square feet data center at the heart of the UK's "innovation corridor", between London, Cambridge and Stansted. This is what 8.8MW of data center capacity looks like from the inside.
Pictures: Inside Lenovo's new Beijing campus
Lenovo showed journalists around its recently opened campus in Beijing, which aims to create a 'Silicon Valley environment' for its 10,000-plus employees.
High-performance storage: From flash drives to server hard drives (April 2018 edition)
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.
Photos: Inside Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM's frozen Nordic datacenters
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.
Photos: Inside vast abandoned mine set to be world's biggest data center
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.
The 10 scariest cloud outages (and lessons learned from them)
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.
Take a peek inside 'Europe's most advanced datacenter'
Inside an 11-storey datacenter in the heart of London's Docklands.
Photos: Zuckerberg offers glimpse inside Facebook's cavernous Arctic datacenter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
A tour of IBM's cloud brokerage software cloudMatrix
IBM is betting that its cloudMatrix software will enable it to make a pivot from a systems integrator to a services integrator.
Photos: How cool is this? Datacenter at Arctic Circle's edge
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.
These servers want to heat your house ... for free
If you haven't heard of data furnaces, you soon will ... especially if you hate your winter energy bill.
Behind the blast doors of the Cold War bunker that's now a datacenter: Photos
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.
Inside CERN's datacenter helping the Large Hadron Collider probe the Big Bang: Photos
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.
Photos: Inside Rackspace's new datacenter and how it aims to cut millions from running costs
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.
Inside the National Computational Infrastructure: Gallery
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.
Microsoft expands data centre region to New Zealand
Customers will be able to store their data locally.
GIC and Equinix Partner to Build Data Centres in Japan
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How to manage the increase in cloud demand? This is Microsoft's plan
Microsoft officials say they've been taking some behind-the-scenes steps to try to head off current and future cloud capacity issues.
Data centers keep the world running: This is how they're dealing with the crisis
Data centers have been preparing since January to make sure that the world would stay connected amid the coronavirus crisis.
Cisco's SSM On-Prem has a 9.8/10 severity flaw, patch now
Cisco urges customers using its Smart Software Manager to upgrade.
Data center spending: Four trends you need to be aware of
Data center spending is likely to be feast or famine as enterprises pull back and hyperscale cloud providers build out infrastructure only to hit pause and digest.
From $50 per MB to $15 per 1TB: How did it happen?
I just saw a Western Digital external hard drive special: a 12TB desktop drive for $187. How do drive vendors do it?
Reserve Bank seeks help as it migrates data centre kit to Cisco
The successful supplier will be responsible for delivering compute hardware and associated software to the Reserve Bank of Australia for the next five years.
China Mobile opens first EU data centre in UK
Chinese telco has opened a data centre in the UK -- its first of such facility in Europe -- which serves as an international network exchange and internet data centre, and will facilitate connectivity between Asia and Europe.
AirTrunk to open second Sydney data centre
AirTrunk has announced its plans to build a second hyperscale data centre in Sydney, with the new 110+ megawatt facility to complement its two existing ones down under.
Microsoft beats Amazon in a $10 billion Defense JEDI contract bid
Throughout much of the bidding process, Amazon was expected by many to be the triumphant bidder.
StarHub to offer hyperscale data centre services through AirTrunk
Available to StarHub customers from mid-2020, AirTrunk's 60-megawatt facility will be essential in meeting anticipated need for hyperscale data centre support with the emergence of 5G mobile edge computing capabilities, says the Singapore telco.
This new memory chip could be a game changer for machine learning
For many years, it's been hard to commercialize "MRAM" memory chips because of their unpredictability. But a startup, Spin Memory, is betting that the randomness operating in MRAM might make it an ideal chip for machine learning.
Run a computer in liquid? Spanish firm's cooling tech offers solutions to big data centers
You might think electricity and liquids don't mix, but an immersive-cooling company has other ideas.
Chip startup Spin Memory wants to change the key ingredients of all chips
ZDNet's Tiernan Ray explains that a special mind of data memory called MRAM, for magnetic random access memory, has taken years to commercialize. Startup spin memory thinks the key to making it work is to take advantage of the inherent randomness in MRAM. Viewed from that perspective, the chip could actually accelerate AI applications, giving it special appeal. Read more: https://zd.net/2Vmar3i
First Take: Toshiba Qosmio G30
The Toshiba Qosmio G30 is the most feature-rich home entertainment notebook we've seen to date, bar none.
