Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity 'Our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos' Off-Prem28 Mar 2023 | 38
Outage rates fall, but major ones will cost more. Oh and don't bank on SLAs Not what cost-cutting companies want to hear right now. Maybe they should hang onto those engineers? Off-Prem27 Mar 2023 | 9
China's best selling smartwatch offers surveillance-as-a-service … for kids Asia In Brief ALSO: Indian space agency completes OneWeb constellation; Singapore warns on AI weapons; AUKUS tech pact advances AI + ML26 Mar 2023 | 6
Oracle reportedly making job cuts at health IT arm Cerner OCI is much more efficient than the acquired Cerner DCs, Ellison told investors Spotlight on Databases24 Mar 2023 | 6
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together GTC Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too Systems21 Mar 2023 | 2
AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil Ditching diesel in attempt to shrink its carbon footprint On-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 15
Nutanix's cloudy clusters now officially at home in Azure HCI upstart adds a hybrid option that could be of interest to nervous VMware customers Virtualization14 Mar 2023 |
Cloud upstart offers free heat if you host its edge servers That's one way to counteract rising energy prices – but do you want to sit next to a DC? On-Prem14 Mar 2023 | 37
US plays Whac-A-Mole with Inspur subsidiaries to close China sanction loopholes If your name's not on the entity list ... you're OK to do business with American companies On-Prem11 Mar 2023 | 8
Cash-strapped Intel looks for $3B in savings to pursue '5 nodes in 4 years' dream Cheap as chips? Not in this case Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4
Swedish datacenter operator wants to go nuclear Harnessing a Small Modular Reactor could also power 30,000 surrounding homes, Bahnhof CEO claims On-Prem08 Mar 2023 | 15
Lonestar bags $5m in seed funding for lunar datacenter project That's one small step for upstart, with many, many more to go On-Prem07 Mar 2023 | 6
Datacenters still a boys' club, staffing shortages may change that Fifth of server warehouse operators polled didn't employ a single female worker On-Prem02 Mar 2023 | 37
Microsoft wants to export 'grid-interactive' Dublin datacenter setup It's all about being 'aware' of effect power consumption has on energy networks On-Prem24 Feb 2023 | 7
Datacenters in China, Singapore cracked by crims who then targeted tenants Infiltrators tried to create fake remote hands tasks, alter visitor lists Cyber-crime23 Feb 2023 |
Euro bit barn biz has hot prospect: immersion cooling for colo customers Aims at those who need help with green targets ... months after Intel axes R&D into tech On-Prem20 Feb 2023 | 7
Oracle NetSuite datacenter plunges offline for a day, customers warned of data loss Updated Anything could happen in a half hour Off-Prem15 Feb 2023 | 10
AWS puts datacenter in shipping container for the Pentagon Ditch the special forces helicopter – it's easier to ship it in an actual ship On-Prem15 Feb 2023 | 15
5% of the cloud now runs on Arm as chip designer plans 2023 IPO Growing indication power-sipping CPUs are catching on in crowded datacenters Systems08 Feb 2023 | 9
Power grid worries force Amazon to run Oregon datacenters using fuel cells And not the green hydrogen kind Systems06 Feb 2023 | 9
Castrol immerses itself deeper into liquid cooling with researcher They're a 'liquid engineering' biz, and applications include bit barns On-Prem01 Feb 2023 | 12
AMD's Epyc server chips give strong revenue growth, but profits drop 98% CEO Lisa Su's job is vastly more fun that Pat Gelsinger's right now, at least on the balance sheet Systems01 Feb 2023 | 2
US Department of Energy solicits AMD's help with nuke sims Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too Systems31 Jan 2023 | 6
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter Systems30 Jan 2023 | 38
Microsoft shells out for 2.5GW of solar. Not that it'll make a big dent in its emissions Unless it's hooking up all those panels to your PCs and servers Systems26 Jan 2023 | 24
Nuclear-powered datacenter throws open doors to tenants this year Hit up Cumulus Data if you want your racks running on low-cost, zero-carbon energy On-Prem19 Jan 2023 | 20
Intel, AMD just created a headache for datacenters Server silos didn't see today's watt-gobbling, space-heater chips coming HPC19 Jan 2023 | 29
Years late and 36 cores short of AMD, who are Intel’s 4th-gen Xeons even for? Analysis Here's what $17,000 of silicon gets you Systems12 Jan 2023 | 34
After long delays, Sapphire Rapids arrives, full of accelerators and superlatives Look at our big claims, but don’t think about how AMD beat us in the DDR5, PCIe 5 race Systems10 Jan 2023 | 26
Non-binary DDR5 is finally coming to save your wallet Need a New Year's resolution? How about stop paying for memory you don't need Storage02 Jan 2023 | 83
Miniature nuclear reactors could be the answer to sustainable datacenter growth Did someone say teenage mutant ninja servers? Systems30 Dec 2022 | 143
As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave Comment There's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money Systems29 Dec 2022 | 35
The era of cloud colonialism has begun Opinion Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires Off-Prem28 Dec 2022 | 40
Paperwork decision scraps Google's $600m Minnesota datacenter project We don't have the power Off-Prem22 Dec 2022 | 6
It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary Opinion The term has become so ambiguous it's verging on irrelevance Systems22 Dec 2022 | 58
QTS refits Dutch datacenter to warm thousands of homes with waste heat It's getting cold out there, better spin up a few more VMs Systems21 Dec 2022 | 8
Refrigeration failure at Hong Kong datacenter takes out Alibaba Cloud and others Unlike Oracle and Google, this time there's no heatwave to blame Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 1
Meta freezes development of $1.5B Alabama datacenter pending redesign More AI is the answer to all our woes, Meta CTO says Off-Prem20 Dec 2022 | 5
Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure Cancelled bit barns the latest casualties following mass layoffs last month Off-Prem16 Dec 2022 | 14
Arista offers up 800G switches to the data-hungry cloud gods That's a lot of personal data and cat videos per second Networks14 Dec 2022 |
XaaS is taking over the datacenter and IDC says you asked for it Comment As customers grapple with pricey AI systems and nontraditional compute, HPE, Dell, and Lenovo circle in wait On-Prem14 Dec 2022 | 5
Why did Microsoft just buy fiber optic cable company Lumenisity? When every nanosecond of latency counts, improvements in the physical layer matter Networks13 Dec 2022 | 41
As semiconductor VC funding dips, startups trip, crash, build for the next boom In a weaker economy, investor scrutiny is increasing for these capital-intensive upstarts Systems10 Dec 2022 | 5
Colocation execs fret about sustainability as world eyes water, energy use What, you thought green tech shift will come from the good of their hearts? On-Prem09 Dec 2022 | 3
Deutsche Bank backs Nvidia's bet to make big bucks on software German financial giant aids GPU maker's vision of vertical integration Software07 Dec 2022 | 3
Barge off: Nautilus to bring floating datacenters to two new sites in US, France 7.5 megawatt digs on the murky waters of Marseille and Los Angeles On-Prem07 Dec 2022 | 15
Equinix to cut costs by cranking up the heat in its datacenters Dude, not cool Systems07 Dec 2022 | 30
Datacenter switching surged everywhere except Europe last quarter Economic headwinds, surging energy prices batter EMEA switch sales Systems03 Dec 2022 | 1
US commerce bosses view EU rules as threat to its clouds Rules haven't been decided yet but others are already kicking up a stink Off-Prem02 Dec 2022 | 139
Nutanix buyout may be on the cards with HPE sniffing around A GreenLake future could reportedly be more cloudy Off-Prem02 Dec 2022 | 1
French cloud operator OVHcloud gets datacenter funds from EU lending arm Using loan for expansion as political bloc pursues tech autonomy strategy Systems25 Nov 2022 | 31
Google and Microsoft add more renewable energy for datacenters Both announce green power purchase agreements for UK and Irish DCs as European worries over power continue PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2022 | 11
Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon Updated Pay for features like SGX through OEMs Systems22 Nov 2022 | 50
Liquid and immersion is the new cool at Supercomputing '22 SC22 With next-gen chips pushing 700W, thermal is the hot topic Systems19 Nov 2022 | 19
Nvidia's datacenter growth can't save it from gaming GPU woes CEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues Systems17 Nov 2022 | 16
Worried about your datacenter carbon footprint? Why not put it in orbit? No atmosphere to pollute, but who's going to go up and change that failed drive? On-Prem16 Nov 2022 | 46
Nvidia turns to optical trickery to boost long-haul InfiniBand performance SC22 The platform launches alongside new frameworks for AI preprocessing at the edge Networks15 Nov 2022 | 1
Nvidia bundles enterprise AI software with incoming H100 systems GPU maker wants more of your money with next wave of servers Systems14 Nov 2022 |
Microsoft to spend $1 billion on datacenters in North Carolina Hopefully servers will sweat a little less than the ones in Doha On-Prem11 Nov 2022 | 7
AMD's 96-core Epyc CPUs leapfrog Intel to put DDR5, PCIe 5.0 in the datacenter Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim Systems10 Nov 2022 |
Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it HPC09 Nov 2022 |