Linux Foundation finds enterprise Linux growing at Windows' expense
Mixed bag of tech outlooks from Autodesk, Nutanix and Splunk
Enterprise software players delivered a mixed bag of guidance even amid strong quarters overall.
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Pure Storage launches AIRI Mini, aims to take NVMe mainstream
The company is looking to bridge traditional storage approaches with new scale-out applications for artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Can this 100+ TB cloud SSD controller herald the all-flash data center?
A decade after flash burst on the enterprise scene, all-flash data centers remain the exception. But startup Burlywood plans to rearchitect flash SSDs so even hyperscale data centers can go all flash. Here's how.
Facebook open sources Katran networking tool, outlines automation system called Vending Machine
Facebook outlined how it manages its network and global backbone at scale.
What is SDN? How software-defined networking changed everything
The internet began as a system for applying addresses to servers. Now it's a means for giving names to services, and distributing those services across the planet. SDN gave rise to a new way of implementing computing on the broadest scale of infrastructure, and has become, for better or worse, the whole point of networking.
Intel, Micron's first-ever QLC NAND flash: Cheaper, denser SSD storage is coming
Intel and Micron's first Quad-Level Cell NAND flash memory should bring higher-density SSD storage.
Disaster recovery and business continuity plan
Natural and man-made disasters can jeopardize the operations and future of any company, so it’s critical to develop a plan to help ensure ongoing business processes in a crisis. This download explains...
New Spectre variant 4: Our patches cause up to 8% performance hit, warns Intel
Intel's Spectre variant 4 patch will be off by default, but users who turn it on are likely to see slower performance.
Lowering TOC with single-socket AMD EPYC processors
Huge savings await those who embrace single-socket servers, and not just in terms of reduced power consumption and lowered cooling costs.
Ex-Intel security expert: This new Spectre attack can even reveal firmware secrets
A new variant of Spectre can expose the contents of memory that normally can't be accessed by the OS kernel.
Cisco critical flaw warning: These 10/10 severity bugs need patching now
Cisco's software for managing software-defined networks has three critical, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.
Nvidia continues to ride AI, gaming, machine learning, crypto waves
Nvidia delivered a near flawless first quarter, and its data center business shows no signs off slowing down any time soon.
Cloud computing: Why this airline just went 'all in' on AWS
Machine learning is key to a new Amazon cloud migration project, which will mean Ryanair closing most of its data centers.
IBM, Red Hat couple containers for hybrid cloud deployments
Under the partnership, IBM will extend its IBM Cloud Private and IBM Cloud Private for Data and middleware to Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform and Certified Containers.
Technology teams deserve good UX, too
'You don't want people at your company to reach the wrong conclusions just because their monitoring tools made them confused.'
Oracle Access Manager security bug so serious it let anyone access protected data
The moral? Don't roll your own crypto, security researcher tells Oracle.
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.
The benefits of Software Defined Networking
How one telecoms company benefited from Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Six Clicks: Scariest Tech Trends of 2014
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".
Can hyperscale data centers run on flash? US startup builds the architecture
Startup Burlywood plans to rearchitect flash SSDs so even hyperscale data centers can go all flash. Here's how.
Intel's patches for Spectre variant 4 will slow your CPU
Intel's Spectre variant 4 patch will be off by default, but users who turn it on are likely to see slower performance.
European airline Ryanair moves all of its data infrastructure to AWS
Machine learning is key to a new Amazon cloud migration project, which will mean Ryanair closing most of its data centers.
IBM challenges traditional architecture with new in-memory computing approach
IBM's nanoscale analog computers could solve the big-data energy crunch facing traditional architectures.
NextDC seeking AU$281m for three new datacentre sites
The three sites -- which would be known as S3 in Sydney, M3 in Melbourne, and P2 in Perth -- would give the company an extra 180MW of capacity.
Public server: Stockholm plans to pipe wasted data center heat into homes
The data center's heat exchangers are being linked up to the city's heating network.
Cisco patches critical Smart Install flaw: 8.5 million devices affected
Cisco patches a severe flaw in switch deployment software that can be attacked with crafted messages sent to a port that's open by default.
Portrait of a modern multi-cloud data center
Built and operated in Amsterdam by Interxion, and dubbed AMS8, this data center was designed from the ground-up to capitalize on the latest trends in enterprise cloud computing.
Firm finds kill switch after massive memcached DDoS attacks
Researchers find a technique to contain the memcached amplification attacks seen over the past week.
Iceland targeted in major computer heist as bitcoin miners crave cheap energy
Roughly 600 servers were stolen in one of the biggest criminal operations the country has ever seen.
Samsung Electronic's new SSD: 33.2 TB of memory for enterprises and datacenters
The PM1643 boasts the largest memory capacity ever for a single form factor storage device.
The age of cloud data center dominance is here
Cloud data center traffic will represent 95 percent of total data center traffic by 2021, says Cisco.
Apple's mammoth investment plan in the US bigger than Denmark's economy
Apple joins the chorus of companies outlining revised capital spending plans, as it repatriates offshore cash to the US.
New London capacity takes AWS cloud infrastructure to 50 availability zones
Amazon's cloud division has hit a landmark in its expansion.
DevOps is the hot topic in 2018: Five reasons why
The typical enterprise has become a nonstop software and data factory, operating 24x7. Technology has to be there at all times.
Boston Quattro 12256-T review: A modular HPC server with a Xeon Phi twist
It's not your everyday data centre platform but, if parallel processing of HPC workloads is your game, then Intel's second-generation Xeon Phi processors fitted inside this Boston Quattro server are the way to go.
First Take: Toshiba Qosmio G30
The Toshiba Qosmio G30 is the most feature-rich home entertainment notebook we've seen to date, bar none.
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