Data centers are being reinvented via virtualization, servers with better performance per watt, and the increasing popularity of cloud computing. Key vendors such as Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, VMware and others are all pushing to make the data center more efficient.
High-capacity hard drives in 8TB, 10TB, and even 12TB capacities are becoming the norm in data centers. But how reliable are they? A dive into the data published by Backblaze gives us an insight.
Counsel for both parties have agreed that NextDC will allow a prospective purchaser to inspect the three sites it currently leases off APDC, providing written notice is received 24 hours beforehand.
For the quarter ending March 31, Megaport reported customer receipts falling to AU$4.5 million, while revenue rose to AU$5.14 million.
Asia Pacific Data Centres has offered to buy NextDC's interest for AU$2 per share, the same price NextDC offered last month to wholly acquire the securities it doesn't already own.
Latest survey of Java EE developers finds cloud, microservices and containers dominate future plans.
Backed by Telstra, Schneider Electric, and the Queensland government, Toowoomba's new Pulse Data Centre is open for business.
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The global firm now boasts 15 datacentre locations across Australia and 40 in the greater Asia-Pacific region.
Germany's federal government settles on an open-source collaboration system for employees.
IBM's nanoscale analog computers could solve the big-data energy crunch facing traditional architectures.
IBM got some help by currency fluctuations, but strategic imperatives revenue delivered growth.
Just as cloud computing seemed to be settling down into a standardized set of platforms, the drive for service differentiation results in new use cases for a faster, more flexible premium service tier. But will those use cases make sense in practice?
The cash being raised will be used for future datacentres at a third location in Sydney and Melbourne, and a second site in Perth.
You'll now need to monitor the power cables connecting to isolated computers holding sensitive information.
Intel is building the foundation for the modern data center with field programmable gate array (FPGA) accelerators, and Dell EMC and Fujitsu want in on that future.
Cisco will offer its Tetration platform as a service for cloud-first enterprises and a virtual appliance version for smaller deployments.
Data centers provide the backbone for many tech services we take for granted, but what goes on behind those doors -- and why might firms including Apple and Google be interested in moving over?
Grounded in open source and energy efficient designs, the world's largest social network shared its latest updates for cost and power savings attributed to its cutting-edge datacenters.
The Spanish telco's largest facility is based outside the Spanish capital. ZDNet was invited along to see inside.
From CDC's 40MHz "supercomputer" to 2014's Tianhe-2's 33.86 PetaFlops per second, supercomputers are continuing to push computing to its ultimate limits.
Facebook's sprawling Forest City, North Carolina data center is designed to be a beacon of energy friendliness in the watt-sucking world of server farms. On a recent media tour of the facility, officials showed off green-computing practices that they say have saved the company more than $1 billion.
Tower, rack and blade servers are familiar enough, but what do microservers look like? We examine examples from HP, SeaMicro and Dell.
After years of speculation, Microsoft has finally delivered editions of its flagship business productivity programs to the iPad platform. Here's what you'll find in the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps.
Imagine squeezing 18 buildings worth of servers, data racks, and networking gear into just two. That's exactly what AMD is doing. ZDNet was one of the first to tour the company's soon-to-be only U.S. datacenter.
Italian oil company ENI has just opened a new datacentre that's aiming to beat Google's PUE record. ZDNet went to take a look.
Last week, ZDNet was invited on a tour of Pacnet's recently expanded Tier III Sydney CBD datacentre.
At the launch of NextDC's S1 Tier III Sydney datacentre last night, CEO Craig Scroggie confirmed uptake was already at 27 percent.
This week saw the opening of the biggest datacentre in Europe – a new facility in the Portuguese city of Covilhã. ZDNet went for a look around.
China's Tianhe-2 or MilkyWay-2 supercomputer surpassed the power of the US Titan to take over the top spot on Top500.org's semi-annual list. Here are the top 10.
Digital Realty has opened up a new Tier 3 datacentre 17 miles south west of the capital.
The datacentre provider showed off the new facility with NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell attending the launch ceremony.
AMD vs. Intel is a storyline dating back decades, but there are signs that the two rivals are becoming closer frenemies and even collaborating. There's a good reason for that--Nvidia is a threat to both companies. Intel and AMD have teamed up on a custom GPU for next-gen mobile chips. Nvidia happens to be AMD's biggest GPU rival on PCs. AMD also wants its GPUs in the data center too. Nvidia is the GPU leader in the data center and threatens Intel on artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. Intel wants to be the processor of data however it is used and sees Nvidia as fierce competition. Add it up and AMD and Intel may even need each other. The caveat: Intel and AMD won't be all warm and fuzzy over time. Intel poached Raja M. Koduri, chief architect of the Radeon Technologies Group and oversaw the development of the advanced Vega GPUs.
Microsoft buys wind energy from GE and a license to supply energy to Ireland's grid.
lt gives Microsoft and Facebook enough capacity to stream 71 million HD videos at once.
Cloud datacenters rely on acres of disk drives to store data, and startup Tachyum bets on an all-flash cloud.
As cloud approaches its second decade in enterprises, IT managers find it to be an ideal backup environment, two new surveys confirm.
Survey suggests technology migrations are more painful, and the cloud isn't making them any easier
To thwart a cyber-attack on its national infrastructure or even an invasion, Estonia is getting ready to open its first data embassy overseas.
The massive redundancy of cloud infrastructures make them seem virtually bulletproof. Not true. In fact, so-called "gray failures" are the real problem for cloud apps - and ones that often go undetected by today's management systems. Here's what you need to know.
The ThinkSystem brand will include servers, storage and networking. ThinkAgile is focused on software-defined data centers and integrated and converged systems.
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has found a six pack of tech companies to push towards a computer with one exaflop of power.
Cloud and 'as a service' models have changed the way computing works. Get over it.
The prototype is the next step in turning The Machine research project into a product. Here's a look at HPE's memory-driven efforts.
Cloud computing has made a tremendous surge in recent years, but issues such as compliance and data residency make tech leaders think carefully about keeping certain IT systems on-premise.
Despite what they'd have you believe, Devs and Ops don't always get along nicely. Instead of pointing fingers, Pepperdata and LinkedIn think data and analytics may be the way to educate and show the impact of code running in production.
DevOps is at the top of the hype cycle in IT, but it can be hard to explain. So, we break down the three things you need to know, and point you to our new special report on the topic.
Storage
High-performance storage: From flash drives to server hard drives (April 2018 edition)
Hardware
Cloud
Where's the 'edge' in edge computing? Why it matters, and how we use it
Innovation
IBM: Our in-memory computing breakthrough will cut cost of training AI
Data Management
Facebook's data centers worldwide, by the numbers and in pictures
