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
Cloud builders hoover up 60% of ALL servers sold in 2020 as enterprise bit barns left to sweat Are we at the tipping point? Does anyone care? PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2021 | 2
Compute Express Link glue that binds processors and accelerators hits spec version 2.0... so, uh, rejoice? Interconnect tech likely to improve data center operations On-Prem10 Nov 2020 | 3
Cisco uncrates Kubernetes for Intersight, debuts a dashing dashboard Switchzilla cloud glue lashes IT systems together Devops28 Oct 2020 |
Morgan Stanley hit with $60m penalty for failing to properly decommission old kit hosting 'wealth management' data Banking giant rapped over management of two US bit barns On-Prem13 Oct 2020 | 25
You're all wet: Drippy chips to help slash data centre power consumption and carbon costs Fab: Boffins etch cooling into chip design On-Prem11 Sep 2020 | 21
Multiple customers knocked offline as firefighters tackle flames at Telstra's London Hosting Centre bit barn Third-floor UPS suspected On-Prem27 Aug 2020 | 30
Marketing: Wow, that LD8 data centre outage was crazy bad. Still, can't get worse, can it? Finance: HOLD MY BEER Outraged outage-struck Equinix customer billed for dead rack check On-Prem20 Aug 2020 | 32
Equinix enters India by purchasing pair of Mumbai bit barns Traffic among tenants in financial capital looks to be as tasty as renting racks On-Prem11 Aug 2020 |
Intel's 7nm is busted, chips delayed, may have to use rival foundries to get GPUs out for US govt exascale super CEO Bob Swan suggests his chips may some day be TSMC-flavored On-Prem24 Jul 2020 | 38
Show a little spine? Nokia whips out SR Linux, a new routing network OS for cloud clients Finnish firm might do best with telco clouds, says analyst Networks09 Jul 2020 |
Intel bets big on AI with third-gen Xeons tuned for deep learning, VMs, in-memory databases, analytics There's also a Stratix FPGA designed with AI tasks in mind On-Prem18 Jun 2020 |
Enterprises slam pause button on data centre spending, flatten pockets of old world tech crowd ODMs in Far East make bank as public cloud slingers buy yet more infrastructure On-Prem12 Jun 2020 | 2
Swedish data centre offers rack-scale dielectric immersion cooling And reckons it can crack 100kw per rack with help from Yorkshire company Iceotope On-Prem15 May 2020 | 37
Equinix says Zoom bought plenty more stuff in Q1. Which is just what Oracle said, too Despite you know what, little evidence of a rush to new racks SaaS08 May 2020 |
Data centre reveals it modeled interiors on The Hunt for Red October sets Australia bit barn outfit NEXTDC adds classic film reference to usual mix of resilience, connectivity and security On-Prem07 May 2020 | 42
Nvidia's multi-billion-dollar buying spree continues as it slurps up Cumulus soon after swallowing Mellanox Side effects may include rapid HPC and large AI workloads Networks04 May 2020 | 3
Facebook defers $3bn of infrastructure spend because it's hard to build bit barns when you're working from home The Social Network™ is predictably busy but says that won't last On-Prem30 Apr 2020 | 6
Equinix closes data centres to customers, contractors in France, Germany, Italy, Spain amid coronavirus pandemic Goes appointment-only elsewhere, pledges to have enough staff on-site to keep running On-Prem23 Mar 2020 | 5
Dell publishes data centre cleaning guidance, suggests hiring pros to disinfect enterprise kit Urges ‘extreme caution’ if you DIY and reminds you ‘Never spray any liquids directly onto or into any product’ On-Prem20 Mar 2020 | 26
10nm woes, CPU supply shortages, competition from AMD... What? Sorry? Intel can't hear you over the cash register going bonkers Just don't mention the FPGAs On-Prem24 Jan 2020 | 18
Private equity house Macquarie chucks some money in AirTrunk, grabs majority stake in Aussie hyperscaler $3bn reportedly changing hands after data centre biz auction On-Prem10 Jan 2020 | 3
Power of the cloud builders: Who ate one-third of the $38bn data centre pie in Q3? AWS, Microsoft, Google 'n' pals Old world vendors should club together, form new biz called 'Screwed by Cloud' On-Prem17 Dec 2019 | 10
SPARCs fly as Oracle recharges Arm server processor designer Ampere with $40m Ohm my God Systems28 Sep 2019 | 29
Somebody is working on a $600m data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, could rhyme with schmoogle 'Google? Who is Google? My name is Guy Incognito' On-Prem25 Jul 2019 | 11
Just add water: Efficient Energy’s HFC-free chillers arrive in the UK The EU goes to war against refrigerants – so the German upstart designed a system that uses tap water On-Prem23 Jul 2019 | 86
Echelon gets the upper hand: Scores final nod for 100MW bit barn campus in Arklow, Ireland Appeal from competitor who fought Apple application fails to stop project On-Prem19 Jul 2019 | 10
Soon Google will have more bit barns in Texas than you can shake a stick at: Second facility planned for Ellis County 'Alamo Mission LLC' to splash $600m on city of Red Oak On-Prem18 Jul 2019 | 14
UK's Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station takes an eye off the sky to strike out into data centre biz Complete with an immersion-cooled machine learning cluster On-Prem15 Jul 2019 | 6
Cloudy with a chance of colocation: Taiwan's Delta Electronics rolls out beastly 600kVA UPS I like big data centres and I cannot lie On-Prem02 Jul 2019 | 14
Armed with a billion dollars, Equinix goes after the hyperscalers Data centre joint venture bankrolled by Singapore sets its sights on Europe On-Prem01 Jul 2019 | 1
It's us, only backwards. DXC registers new corporate entity: World, meet *drum roll* CXD Infrastructure Solutions Staff twitchy about new corporate shell, but it's just serving a Suisse role, says firm On-Prem01 Jul 2019 | 20
As above, so below: El Reg haunts Scaleway's data centre catacombs 26 metres under Paris Feature Going underground, where the servers are caged and there's water around On-Prem19 Jun 2019 | 28
Wholesome: Waste heat from coal power station turned data centre to help grow veggies Might also use Lake Michigan water for cooling On-Prem06 Jun 2019 | 31
Well we'll be... going colo, down in Montenegro: Euro public cloud is sooo strong Hyperscalers now leasing 81 per cent of new colo space in FLAP markets On-Prem31 May 2019 | 3
Let's Pope mass upgrade of Vatican Library data centre is blessed with some of that famed infallibility Because those 80,000 codices are getting a bit oldy-moldy now On-Prem30 May 2019 | 29
Stay frosty: Google to fork out another €600m on bit barns in Finland That's now €1.4bn splurged on the small town of Hamina On-Prem28 May 2019 | 8
Equinix is rolling in it.... money that is Colo giant racks up the dollar bills by renting space to big 'n bulky cloud slingers On-Prem02 May 2019 | 6
Northern Virginia cements spot as bit barn capital of the world with jigawatt capacity That’s a lot of servers On-Prem26 Apr 2019 | 32
Selling data centre hardware? Prepare for pain as Gartner spies market spending shift IT services are in, building and upgrading your own data centres – not so much On-Prem17 Apr 2019 | 2
Either Facebook is building yet another massive bit barn in Iowa, and doesn't want you to know about it.... ... or this is a massive, massive coincidence. What's a Zuckerberg? We're Siculus! On-Prem15 Apr 2019 | 42
They live: The US government is not killing its zombie servers fast enough say its auditors You’ve got to aim for the head On-Prem12 Apr 2019 | 8
Buy-to-let in foreign countries is so passé... Now investors sink cash into data centers: CBRE opens bit barn brokerage From the folks that had nothing to do with the 2017 BA outage On-Prem01 Apr 2019 | 3
US biz could be allowed to fire up their own data centres beyond the Great Firewall of China But only if trade talks are successful On-Prem29 Mar 2019 | 2
Within Google Cloud, a computer is muttering: Shall we play a game? Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of SaaS? Come for the on-demand servers, stay for the sweet documentation SaaS20 Mar 2019 | 3
Meet games-streaming Stadia, yet another thing Google will axe in two years Now, witness the power of this eventually operational game star SaaS19 Mar 2019 | 75
Fake fuse: Bloke admits selling counterfeit chips for use in B-1 bomber, other US military gear E-waste partly to blame for proliferation of deceptively marketed silicon Security05 Feb 2019 | 62
You're the Swan that I want, you are the Swan I want, ooh ooh ooh: Intel anoints Bob as CEO Swan's throng. Chipzilla's only Swan and done it. And Swan more for luck, etc etc On-Prem31 Jan 2019 | 7
London tipped to lead European data market. Yes, despite Brexit! Report puts English capital ahead, Frankfurt close behind On-Prem19 Sep 2018 | 32
Florence and the Machines: Data centers brace as hurricane smashes into US coast TImes get wet and windy – but bit barns keep on ticking On-Prem14 Sep 2018 | 17
GitHub goes off the Rails as Microsoft closes in Analysis Ruby shop turns to Go, Java, and Kubernetes for platform makeover Software16 Aug 2018 | 18
Can we talk about the little backdoors in data center servers, please? Black Hat Remote management a double-edged sword, IT admins warned at hacking conference Security10 Aug 2018 | 15
400GbE party. Loud knock at the door. Music stops. In jumps Juniper And it's clutching a roadmap that charts first shipments before end of 2018 Networks24 Jul 2018 | 4
Heatwave shmeatwave: Brit IT departments cool their racks – explicit pics As the UK melts, cash-strapped techies reach for the fans Systems13 Jul 2018 | 117
AT&T offloads a bunch of data centres for a billion bucks Carrier will still control customers and offer colo services in 29 bit barns On-Prem25 Jun 2018 | 5
Azure North Europe downed by the curse of the Irish – sunshine Microsoft data center went sideways this week for hours with cooling issue SaaS22 Jun 2018 | 24
Visa fingers 'very rare' data centre switch glitch for payment meltdown European boss says 10% of attempted transactions failed as a result of equipment fault On-Prem19 Jun 2018 | 46
Facebook's new data centre cooling system takes the heat like Zuck in front of Congress We're still the good guys! Our AC is super eco-friendly! On-Prem06 Jun 2018 | 15
HostingUK drops offline after losing Farmer vs Fibre competition iomart-owned outfit TITSUP* as trencher slices through critical cable On-Prem01 Jun 2018 | 70
Score one for the bats and badgers! Apple bins €850m Irish bit barn bid Planning process prattle stalled project for years On-Prem10 May 2018 | 38