Data Centre

Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week

The irony, it burns

Devops26 Jan 2023 | 12

It’s 2022 and a Korean web giant only now decided to write a DR plan

Kakao discovers the importance of resilience after fire wiped out its services

Off-Prem08 Dec 2022 | 5

NTT Data adopting datacenter inspection robots to relieve humans of some chores

Will also offer them as-a-service to other bit barn operators

On-Prem01 Dec 2022 | 2

Equinix would offer more liquid cooling but struggles without standards

Immersion has different problems: datacenters aren't strong enough to hold lots of liquids

Systems30 Nov 2022 | 6

Amazon to spend $4.4b in India as it adds second AWS region

Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth

PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 2

Google taps up Softbank solar plants for Dallas datacenter

900MW coming web giant's way ... in 2024

On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |

Kakao CEO quits, South Korea hits emergency button after dire datacenter blaze

Almost, but not quite, that moment of Big Tech accountability you've been waiting for

Off-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 5

Twitter datacenter melted down in Labor Day heat

Bitbarn suffered 'total shutdown' after 113F heatwave

On-Prem13 Sep 2022 | 16

Fights, floods, and fortunes when cloud giants roll into town

Comment Small-town troubles go hyperscale in one Virginia county over land, resources, and noise

Off-Prem03 Aug 2022 | 6

Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites

Clouds burst as nation hits 40C

Off-Prem19 Jul 2022 | 66

Datacenter boom going bust over labor, materials shortages

Two years on and there's still not enough stuff to go around--or people

Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 9

Nvidia shares tumble as China lockdown, Russia blamed for dent in outlook

Sure, stonking server and gaming sales, but hiring and expenses to slow down, too

AI + ML26 May 2022 | 1

Virginians sue to block rural Amazon datacenter

When it comes to web giant's multi-story facilities in this specific spot, we're haters

On-Prem10 May 2022 | 28

AMD’s Xilinx-enhanced Epycs are right up the alley of datacenter builders

Comment Same goes for Arm, for the same reason: Power efficiency

AI + ML09 May 2022 | 3

Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon

You have died of dystopia

PaaS + IaaS06 May 2022 | 16

Was Nokia's Microsoft switch deal win a reward for SONiC contributions?

Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg

Networks06 May 2022 | 5

Google to invest $9.5b in US offices, datacenters

Tough news for those Googlers still holding out for permanent remote work

On-Prem13 Apr 2022 | 5

NTT finds partner to help accelerate datacenter builds in Europe, North America

Asset management outfit Macquarie will buy existing bit barns. But first, check out the shiny new 15.2MW bit barn in Indonesia

Off-Prem04 Apr 2022 |

Intel buys cloud-optimization startup Granulate

Updated Tech will be touted as a SaaS add-on in Xeon sales pitches, live on as standalone product

Software31 Mar 2022 | 1

UK arm of Sungard Availability Services goes into administration

Cloud and data centre provider's liquidity hit by pandemic, energy costs, intransigent landlords

On-Prem30 Mar 2022 | 32

TrendForce: AWS to give Arm a leg up to 22% of datacenter servers by 2025

Cloud giant's Graviton forcing the hand of rivals, according to analysts

PaaS + IaaS29 Mar 2022 | 2

Boom times for North America's big datacenter real estate market

CSPs, social giants behind bulk of colocation leasing activity in 2021

Systems25 Mar 2022 | 4

OVHcloud datacenter 'lacked' automatic fire extinguishers, electrical cutoff

Firefighters' report: Wooden ceiling rated to resist blaze for an hour

On-Prem22 Mar 2022 | 78

Epyc move: Micron shifts high-demand chip design apps to AMD

Memory and storage maker skips over Intel this time

Systems21 Mar 2022 | 3

AMD: Our latest, pricier mega-cache Epyc processors leapfrog Intel’s

Refreshed third-gen 'Milan-X' sports 3D vertical L3 memory

Systems21 Mar 2022 | 24

Equinix cuts $705m check for Chilean, Peruvian datacenters

Colocation giant goes on a Santiago shopping spree

On-Prem18 Mar 2022 | 2

Microsoft datacenter to heat homes in Finland

Turns out the internet is a set of tubes after all

Systems17 Mar 2022 | 36

We have redundancy, we have batteries, what could possibly go wrong?

On Call Practise makes... less than perfect

On-Prem11 Mar 2022 | 180

PsiQuantum envisions a datacenter-sized quantum computer

We're promised less science fiction, more contemporary hardware

Science08 Mar 2022 | 10

Iran's internet chokepoint caught fire, caused outages

Digital karma at its finest

Networks07 Mar 2022 | 13

Schneider Electric says supply chain held it back

Anticipates 'increased pressure on input costs' on raw materials, labour, and freight

On-Prem23 Feb 2022 | 7

Lenovo's data center business finally makes a profit

Black ink has proven elusive since 2014 acquisition of IBM's x86 server business

On-Prem23 Feb 2022 | 2

China details relocation plan for up to five million datacenter racks

Wants latency-tolerant apps moved to new datacenters in remote western regions, other workloads out of big cities

Off-Prem22 Feb 2022 | 28

This data center will be Europe’s first with hydrogen backup power

And could this be a new Reg standard unit: Number of kilometers a Dutch person drives per day?

On-Prem15 Feb 2022 | 57

Atos realises future does not belong to data centre services

€1.9bn goodwill writedown, another profit warning, going to focus on cloud, digital and security from now on

On-Prem10 Feb 2022 | 2

UK government gifts new £250m hosting contract to its own joint venture

Historical drama as Cabinet Office crowns Crown Hosting Data Centres

On-Prem10 Feb 2022 | 11

Your data centre UPS could feed power to the smart grid, suggests research

Don't all rush to sign up, DC operators

On-Prem09 Feb 2022 | 37

India to adopt digital rupee and slap a 30 per cent tax on cryptocurrency income

Designates data centres as infrastructure to attract more outside investment

Personal Tech02 Feb 2022 | 23

'Admin error': AWS in dead company data centre planning application snafu in Oxfordshire

Northants man surprised to hear former biz address used

On-Prem13 Jan 2022 | 69

Nvidia CFO talks data centre opportunities, chip shortages

Tells investors it has secured supplies to full demand shortfall

On-Prem12 Jan 2022 | 3

Data centre outfit Interxion hit with outage at central London facility

Updated Users complain: We weren't told that LON1 had done one

On-Prem11 Jan 2022 | 19

Barclays snubs public cloud giants and hardware rivals for HPE GreenLake private cloud

Bank migrating thousands of apps and 100k+ workloads to new platform

On-Prem16 Dec 2021 | 29

Sun sets: Oracle to close Scotland's Linlithgow datacentre

Questions for tenants as Ellison's gang executes its OCI strategy

On-Prem06 Dec 2021 | 37

Two massive US datacenter real estate investment trusts taken over in $10bn, $15bn deals

Coincidentally, the same day President Biden signed the infrastructure bill. I know, REIT?

On-Prem16 Nov 2021 | 2

Wondering what to do with those empty offices? How about a data centre?

Going back to the future with smaller data centres and a Patchwork Kilt

Systems16 Nov 2021 | 30

Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret

Chocolate Factory thirst hidden behind non-disclosure agreement claims

On-Prem05 Nov 2021 | 50

Feeling the pinch? How about a 160% hike in your data centre fees

Energy price rises trigger bigger bills at cloud and network provider M247

Off-Prem04 Nov 2021 | 21

Google Cloud will let you know how your workloads are damaging the environment

Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team

Off-Prem12 Oct 2021 | 7

Tight squeeze: Dell shrinks PowerEdge tower server from 117 grapefruit to 74 grapefruit

2 new building-block rack and 3 small footprint towers in DC-optional refresh

Systems08 Oct 2021 | 8

Like a phoenix rising from the smouldering ruins of its data centre, OVH sets sights on IPO

Tells market not to worry – insurers will pay $58m to 'cover the consequences of the fire'

On-Prem20 Sep 2021 | 6

Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants

22-megawatt rig to be built by Mitsubishi – apparently the first direct sale agreement of its sort in Japan

Off-Prem08 Sep 2021 | 3

Facebook and Singapore teams looking for ways to get data centres relaxing in moist tropical climes

Heat and humidity are horrible, and your server can’t quaff a cocktail to cool off

Off-Prem18 Jun 2021 | 7

Tesla agrees to follow Beijing's rules and build a data centre in China

Competition for EV makers heats up in Middle Kingdom, where Tesla is the foreigner

On-Prem27 May 2021 | 6

LibreBMC project to open source baseboard management controllers with security as a priority

Freely available from the hardware schematics to OpenPOWER cores on an FPGA, to the firmware on top

Systems10 May 2021 | 2

Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened

WebNX facility falls offline in blaze, takes customers down with it

On-Prem06 Apr 2021 | 119

Ice Lake, Baby: Intel's 10nm 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable server processors to arrive at last

Stop, collaborate and listen, Chipzilla's back with its brand new invention

Systems06 Apr 2021 | 24