Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit Owner of Cloudera and Barracuda likes the look of Singtel's portfolio Off-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 3
Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig Software02 Aug 2023 |
Singapore's government writes a standard for datacenter ops in the tropics Turning up the heat can turn down cooling bills, even as 30°C and 84 percent humidity prevail Off-Prem12 Jun 2023 | 7
UK datacenter biz Ark goes on date with private equity suitors Government supplier said to be valued at $2.5B On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 1
If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now On Call It ain’t half hot in the datacenter when an errant aircon engineer leaves the tech team to take the heat On-Prem17 Feb 2023 | 143
Meta trims datacenter build bills by $4 billion with new 'phased' design Zuck declares 2023 the 'year of efficiency' - code for breaking leases and firing thousands Off-Prem02 Feb 2023 | 6
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