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
Datacenter
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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 |
Fujitsu to test robot datacenter inspector that – trust us – won't take your jobs
Robots aren't hard. 5G in a room full of metal is. So is explaining why you need a bot to look at blinkenlights
Networks08 Nov 2022 | 14
The all liquid-cooled colo facility rush has begun
AI and HPC deployments means propping up 250kW densities per rack
Systems08 Nov 2022 | 13
Supermicro bets on next-gen chips to carry it through economic downturn
Analysis Customers just love taking risks on pricey new tech, right?
Systems06 Nov 2022 |
Google, Oracle’s Ampere VMs get Arm’s SystemReady seal of approval
So that means everything just works now, right?
PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 |
VMware wants to help fund your next cloud migration
Totally not about trying to keep customers in the ecosystem. Okay, maybe a lot about that
Virtualization02 Nov 2022 |
Big backlogs, cloud cash shield server makers from economic turmoil – for now
Analysis As with all good things, it won't last forever
On-Prem01 Nov 2022 |
AMD's Epyc 4 will likely beat Intel Sapphire Rapids to market
HPE to start shipping Genoa-equipped systems in December – Intel's 4th-gen Xeons eventually
Systems01 Nov 2022 | 7
China's drive for efficient datacenters has made liquid cooling mainstream
Analysis Inspur says server shoppers can't wait to chill out
Systems31 Oct 2022 | 3
Can gamers teach us anything about datacenter cooling? Lenovo seems to think so
Analysis Taming high heat in compact form factors is old hat in the PC community
On-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 27
OVHCloud results show its November price hike will be a nice little earner
CEO claims no pushback from customers
Off-Prem27 Oct 2022 | 1
Seagate denies it illegally sold hard drives to Huawei
While shedding 1 in 12 staff as demand for storage nosedives
Storage26 Oct 2022 | 3
Is your datacenter safe from the next X-class solar flare?
And what about a madman with a truck-mounted junkyard EMP?
On-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 12
AWS buys 100+ diesel generators... and that's just for Irish datacenters
Server farm power concerns as winter nears and fears of blackouts grow
On-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 28
Blazing South Korean datacenter operator raided by cops, blames its own batteries
Asia In Brief PLUS: Australia boosts data breach fines; India outlet drops Meta allegations; AWS spices up Thailand's cloud; and more
Off-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 2
Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year
CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 34
Cisco's latest switch packs 32 800G ports into a pizza box
If you need even more speed, Nvidia and Broadcom have silicon twice as fast
Networks19 Oct 2022 | 5
UK government in talks with datacenter operators over blackouts
Bit barns say they need diesel fuel supplies for backup generators
On-Prem18 Oct 2022 | 56
Broadcom to spin VMware takeover as creating 'more competition' in cloud
Chip giant flutters eyelashes at Europe in hope of early acqusition
Virtualization17 Oct 2022 | 8
Oil company Castrol slips and slides into immersion cooling
Diversification much? Datacenter energy arm part of larger $50m+ battery test center, electric vehicle lab
On-Prem17 Oct 2022 | 18
Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants
Sub-par disaster recovery plans leave Naver and Kakao with savage service interruptions
Off-Prem17 Oct 2022 | 7
Google datacenter contractors claim 'retaliation' for talking workers' rights
Plus: A fresh Amazon NLRB complaint over 'surveillance'
On-Prem13 Oct 2022 |
Nvidia not cutting it? Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived
GCN Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Mount Evans SmartNICs pop their heads above ground, too
AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 3
Airline 'in talks' with Kyndryl after failed network card grounds flights
Delays and cancellations thought to have cost Aer Lingus millions
Networks10 Oct 2022 | 49
China may prove Arm wrong about RISC-V's role in the datacenter
Analysis Cloud and equipment makers also keen to escape Softbank's licensing boot
Systems05 Oct 2022 | 38
Quantum computer to be available from colo datacenter
Not-a-cloud service can accommodate 'unique hosting requirements' - like cryogenic systems
On-Prem29 Sep 2022 | 1
Nope, still no Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors for you right now
Unless you're a US government boffin or can get a seat in Dev Cloud
Systems27 Sep 2022 | 1
US Department of Energy has $42m to make datacenter cooling more efficient
Nice sentiment considering power-hungry components, but it's not a lot of cash in DC terms
On-Prem26 Sep 2022 |
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