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Huawei unleashes AI chip, touting more compute power than competitors
Chinese tech giant announces the commercial launch of its Ascend 910 artificial intelligence (AI) chip, touting its low power consumption of 310W, as well as AI computing framework MindSpore, which will go open source in the first quarter of 2020.
VMware Cloud on AWS gains workloads, but challenges remain
According to a survey by Faction, VMware Cloud on AWS is popular as a way to extend data centers, but there are usage and migration challenges.
Pure Storage's mixed bag: Q2 better than expected, Q3 outlook cut and CFO departs
Pure Storage delivered a mixed bag of earnings news as it becomes the latest storage vendor to hit turbulence.
Cerebras CEO talks about the big implications for machine learning in company’s big chip
Silicon Valley startup Cerebras Systems on Monday unveiled the world's largest chip, designed especially for AI. Cerebras CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman talks with ZDNet about some of the implications for training of deep learning networks.
PC market share gain lifts Lenovo's total revenue to $12.5 billion
The Chinese PC manufacturer has marked its eight consecutive revenue quarter growth.
Lenovo's mission to be a key player in the data centre market
It plans to quadruple the size of the business over the next few years.
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.
Hybrid cloud serves as bridge to our bright all-cloud future
Not everyone is ready for the changes cloud will bring. Hybrid provides an interim step.
How 'network slicing' may determine the success or failure of 5G Wireless
As 5G-branded services are rolling out, perhaps the most critical issue pertaining to 5G Wireless as a whole is unresolved: Will enterprise customers be given the power to manage the networks that run their applications?
What is edge computing? Here's why the edge matters and where it's headed
Very small, prefabricated data centers are starting to compete against colocation facilities, cloud service providers, and even on-premises IT deployments. Edge computing could either redistribute the enterprise market or scramble it all up.
Lenovo and HPE release servers based on AMD's 2nd gen Epyc chip
HPE's new servers have beaten various benchmark records.
AMD's 2nd Gen Epyc processor aims to set a new data center standard
AMD's Epyc processors are delivering when it comes to performance. Is it enough to establish AMD's long-term foothold against Intel?
Xilinx launches Alveo U50 data center accelerator card
The Alveo rollout highlights how Xilinx is targeting the data center and platform processors.
Lenovo, Intel ramp up HPC, AI partnership
Under the partnership, Lenovo will optimize Intel's HPC and AI portfolio to develop systems.
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.
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.
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The benefits of Software Defined Networking
How one telecoms company benefited from Software Defined Networking (SDN)
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.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host a 200 petaflop machine
Meet Europe's new supercomputer: MareNostrum 5 takes on global rivals for power. Read more: https://zd.net/2ILlpJQ
Quantum computing: IBM Q network gets new partners in academia
IBM is laying down the groundwork for quantum advances and ensuring there are people able to work in the field.
Dell Technologies lays out its hybrid cloud plan with a heavy dose of VMware
Dell Technologies' crown jewel in its portfolio is VMware and the technology giant is now making it the glue that holds its portfolio of companies together.
Ultra secure email: Gmail adds MTA-STS and TLS Reporting standards
Google rolled out MTA-STS and TLS Reporting support for Gmail servers on April 10, 2019.
AirTrunk raises SG$450m for new Singapore data centre
The Australian company plans to boost its APAC presence by building a new 60+ megawatt hyperscale data centre in Singapore.
Here come the micro data centers
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.
Nvidia unwraps RTX and T4-based hardware and cloud instances
GPU giant unveils new CUDA-X label for its software stack.
How Nvidia sees data science as its next big market
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is betting that data science will meld data centers with high-performance computing. Here's why it makes sense.
Cisco to invest $20m in new Sydney Webex Data Center
With Australia one of the biggest global users of Webex, Cisco is building a new Sydney-based data centre.
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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