Linux Foundation finds enterprise Linux growing at Windows' expense
Featured Stories
Articles about Data Centers
Google: BigQuery and GCE users get these new controls over sensitive cloud data
Don't or can't trust Google with the encryption keys to your sensitive data? Now you can store the keys completely outside Google's infrastructure.
AirTrunk to open second Sydney data centre
It will be the Australian company's third facility down under.
Cerebras did not spend one minute working on MLPerf, says CEO
MLPerf is the widely cited benchmark test for how fast computers are at crunching artificial intelligence problems. Cerebras Systems, which unveiled its first AI computer system Tuesday, said it spent no time optimizing for the test, given that it has little to do with real-world problems.
NVIDIA GPUs now work with Arm processors, Magnum open source I/O accelerates data workloads for AI
NVIDIA expands its ecosystem, flexes its software muscle, and takes a bet on new processors, workloads, and use cases. The developments paint a new picture in the AI chip race in the cloud and the edge.
VMware Carbon Black to expand its presence in ANZ with a new data centre
Australia Post has been named as one of the data centre's first customers.
Intel’s Koduri continues a GPU computing revolution he helped start years ago
Raja Koduri of Intel helped kick off the movement of GPU computing 14 years ago when he was at AMD. This time, he's refining the strategy for a world of more heterogeneous computing.
Intel-Lenovo to launch exascale council with NCI as a founding member
Members of a new council, called Project Everyscale, want to see exascale technology broadly adopted.
HPE launches container platform, aims to be 100% open source Kubernetes
HPE Container Platform aims to differentiate itself by staying pure open-source Kubernetes and address container sprawl with its BlueData software.
19 useful metrics for measuring blockchain progress
Key business areas where the outcomes of blockchain efforts can be measured.
Going deeper: Moveworks snags $75M in new money to bolster deep learning in enterprise
Moveworks has been bringing natural-language bots to help desk applications, and it just got a giant new round of funding to commercialize large-scale NLP processing models such as Google's BERT.
Cisco tops Q1 expectations, forecasts Q2 revenue decline, says enterprise demand weaker
For the current quarter, Cisco expects revenue to decline between 3% to 5% decline from the year-ago period.
NetApp's Q2 shows stabilization as earnings top expectations
For fiscal 2020, NetApp projected a revenue decline of 8% with non-GAAP gross margins between 67% to 68%.
Intel warning: Critical flaw in BMC firmware affects a ton of server products
If your organization uses an Intel server, make sure its baseboard management controller firmware is updated now.
Equinix eyes opportunity to help enterprises scale globally without friction
It comes as Equinix opens its 16th International Business Exchange data centre in Australia.
Major ASP.NET hosting provider infected by ransomware
SmarterASP.NET, a company with more than 440,000 customers, said it's been hit by ransomware over the weekend.
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 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
MuleSoft strategy sets up an example for the whole industry to follow
How MuleSoft patched a critical security flaw and avoided a disaster.
IBM opens a new Quantum Computation Center
Dr. Robert Sutor, vice president of IBM Q Strategy and Ecosystem at IBM Research, tells Tonya Hall that 14 new quantum computers will be available for business, research, and learning. Read more: https://zd.net/309XY8n
VMware embraces Kubernetes a little more: Why this time it matters
The open source workload orchestration system that has already remade the data center could soon be at the center of the biggest virtualization platform that enterprises already use today. The seed for a new industry may be planted whether enterprises know it or not. ZDNet’s Scott Fulton tells Karen Roby this could be the foundational move for a new and better way for people everywhere to use applications on their computers and devices – that is, if the third time is really the charm for VMware. Read more: https://zd.net/2UTy1E4
Huawei expands AI products portfolio with new chip and computing framework
Chinese tech giant announces the commercial launch of Ascend 910 AI chip and AI computing framework MindSpore.
Reliance Jio and Microsoft sign 10-year cloud agreement
Jio plans to deploy Microsoft Azure in its data centres, connectivity infrastructure, and use it to develop cloud-based business solutions.
Edge computing: Will it replace or enhance the cloud?
Suppose thousands of small data centers you could fit in the back of a truck could replace massive, hyperscale cloud data centers? They’d be closer to customers, less costly to cool and maintain, and faster to deliver services to enterprises. What’s the catch? Take your pick, because there are several. Scott Fulton talks with Karen Roby about the prospects and the pitfalls at the very edge of the computing landscape. Read more: https://zd.net/302L2NF
Defence to expand HMAS Harman data centre and increase power supply
A request for tender document identified that a second data hall and a facility to house all engineering critical and backup services will be built.
AMD debuts the Epyc Rome server processor
Scott Aylor, general manager of AMD’s Datacenter Solutions Group, shares details about the second-generation processor's performance, as well as AMD's data center strategy. Read more: https://zd.net/2ZDVv1T
DNA data storage offers great potential for parallel processing
A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic. Today, you can run PostgreSQL on DNA. Read more: https://zd.net/2KyplhF
Equinix opens 11th Tokyo data centre, its largest in Japan
New facility currently houses 950 cabinets and offers colocation space of 39,800 square feet, expanding 3,500 cabinets and 153,800 square fee when fully completed, making it Equinix's biggest data centre in Japan where it operates 13 sites.
First Take: Toshiba Qosmio G30
The Toshiba Qosmio G30 is the most feature-rich home entertainment notebook we've seen to date, bar none.
Top Stories
-
![Major ASP.NET hosting provider infected by ransomware]()
Security
-
![Remember that energy efficiency is a moving target]()
Hardware
-
![Macquarie Telecom chases hosting dollars]()
Data Centers
-
![Reviewcast: Saleforce.com's Visual Force is like an on-demand version of FoxPro (but better)]()
Data Centers
Reviewcast: Saleforce.com's Visual Force is like an on-demand version of FoxPro (but better)
-
![SaaS: Outsourcing out-of-control?]()
Cloud
