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Dell Technologies test hybrid emulation platform for quantum computing via Qiskit
The hybrid emulation platform executes on both classical and quantum processing on cloud native platforms like Kubernetes.
AWS to launch first data centre region in New Zealand by 2024
The new AWS New Zealand region will be part of a NZ$7.5 billion, 15-year investment in the country.
AI industry, obsessed with speed, is loathe to consider the energy cost in latest MLPerf benchmark
In the industry standard benchmark test of speed of AI compute, vendors made far less of an effort to report the energy consumption of compute despite wide recognition of the sustainability issues of AI computing.
Dell Technologies expands Dell EMC CloudIQ, eyes autonomous infrastructure
Dell Technologies reckons its AIOps software and integration with its hardware can get infrastructure to level 3 of a 5 level autonomous infrastructure scale.
Chemist Warehouse to shift away from on-premise data centre as part of IT overhaul
Working with HPE, Chemist Warehouse will replace its existing data centre with a hyperconverged platform and virtual desktop infrastructure.
Google unveils results of DevOps report, finding increase in public cloud use
More than half of all respondents said they used a public cloud, a 5% bump compared to 2019, and 21% additionally said they deploy multiple public clouds.
Nutanix announces new features for Cloud Platform
Nutanix is launching AOS version 6, Nutanix Era and other new tools to help customers manage data and build out software-defined data centers.
Machine learning at the edge: A hardware and software ecosystem
Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge bears the promise of unlocking a multi-billion dollar market. For that to happen, hardware and software must work in tandem. Arm's partner ecosystem exemplifies this, with hardware and software vendors like Alif and Neuton working together.
Trend Micro launches first data centre region in Australia
The Sydney-based Trend Micro data centre region is expected to be one of many globally planned for launch by the security giant.
Automation won't resolve the data center staffing crisis, at least not yet
These are challenging times for managing data centers that are also opening up opportunities for IT professionals. The lines between development and operations keep blurring.
Google Cloud product, engineering reorgs under Calder; Hölzle to focus on Google's technical infrastructure
Google Cloud has reorganized as Brad Calder takes over product and engineering for Google Cloud and Urs Hölzle will be responsible for technical infrastructure across Google. The two execs previously split up Google Cloud management roles.
Equinix expands into India with $161m acquisition of two data centres
After scooping up two facilities from GPX Global Systems, Equinix now has a presence in India, along with a new MD, Manoj Paul.
Nutanix CEO: Second inning of hyperconverged infrastructure is cloud convergence
Nutanix said Nutanix's annualized recurring revenue rose by 83% to $878.7 million.
This overlooked piece of data center tech could be the key to protecting energy grids from disruption
Researchers have found that data centers' unused batteries could be re-purposed to support the grid and assist the switch to renewable energy.
NextDC revenue and EBIDTA up as loss narrows in FY2021
Revenue for the data centre company sat at AU$246 million for the 2021 financial year.
A peek inside NextDC’s S2 data centre
NextDC let ZDNet inside its second of three facilities in Sydney. Here’s a look at the 30MW facility located in Macquarie Park, 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney CBD.
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.
Is hyperconvergence finally making data centers more efficient?
HCI 1.0 introduced data centers to the notion of managing compute, storage, and memory like commodities for each application. It seemed to be a radical new concept. Then containerization introduced the same concept, but more successfully. HCI 2.0 attempted something of a course change. Then came HCI 3.0, and for some, some subsequent permutations even then. Hyperconvergence looks a lot like container orchestration now, but perhaps it still does the job it set out to do in the beginning. ZDNet's Scott Fulton reports.
Tencent Cloud opens Bahrain data centre to enter Middle East
Chinese internet giant plans to launch an internet data centre in Bahrain by year-end, marking its first facility in the Middle East and North Africa region, where it says it is seeing strong growth opportunities.
Microsoft adds Indonesia as data centre region
As part of the company's Berdayakan Ekonomi Digital Indonesia initiative, which also aims to skill 24 million locals by the end of the year.
Oracle and Australian Data Centres enter partnership to further government reach
It will operate the 'Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer' out of the ADC facilities in the nation's capital.
DCI to build new AU$400 million data centre in Sydney
The 36MW facility is pencilled in for Q4 2022 go-live.
Zoom opens Singapore research facility to expand data centre capacity
Video conferencing company plans for "hundreds" of engineering roles to support its R&D development centre in the country, where it is also doubling its data centre capacity.
Equinix to build fifth Singaporean data centre in face of increased cloud demand
Slated to open in the first half of 2021, the new site will look to tap Singapore's growing demand for cloud services amidst accelerated digital transformation efforts.
The open-source RISC-V is prompting chip technology breakthroughs
Tiernan Ray says RISC-V, the open source technology standard for computer chips, is starting to produce technology breakthroughs that could make it one of the most important standards in the world. Read more: http://zd.net/2WAExBv
Samsung Catalyst Fund's Francis Ho on the next-gen data center, Arm, quantum computing
Samsung Catalyst Fund Managing Director Francis Ho caught up with ZDNet's Larry Dignan for a wide-ranging discussion on the big tech themes in the years ahead, Arm in the data center, and quantum computing.
Green tech: Why it might be time to give up shiny gadgets and HD streams
Digital technologies are on the rise, and so is the industry's carbon footprint. Daphne Leprince-Ringuet says this is what we should do about it. Read more: https://zd.net/36RSHnD
Cerebras claims no cluster of machines can match it
Tiernan Ray explains startup Cerebras Systems of Los Altos, California, has built a computer using a single chip the size of an entire silicon wafer. The company has released a scientific paper claiming it can perform scientific problems in computational fluid dynamics in a speed so fast that no existing clustered computer can match it. Read more: https://zd.net/363fVqJ
Honeywell's quantum computers available: How use cases, developers will evolve
ZDNet's Larry Dignan talks to Patty Lee, chief scientist for Honeywell Quantum, and Tony Uttley, president of Honeywell Quantum, about how software developers will use quantum resources, use cases that are emerging, and how enterprises will integrate it. Read more: https://zd.net/31TS7mG
AirTrunk enters Japanese market with 300MW data centre campus
The data centre campus, called TOK1, will be based at Inzai's data centre hub.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise hopes to create a renaissance on-premise
Tiernan Ray tells Karen Roby that HPE’s GreenLake service is a way companies can use even supercomputers on a pay-as-you go basis, without going to the public cloud. Read more: https://zd.net/3kpd1RO
Facebook to install 1,200 solar rooftops for Singaporean data centre
The panels will be provided by Sunseap Group and are expected to churn 100MWp of capacity when fully completed in 2022.
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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