YOU ARE AT:TagsData centers

BROWSING: data centers

Fujitsu tests private 5G for equipment inspection, remote recovery at data centres

Japanese IT firm Fujitsu is to start testing private 5G for equipment inspection at its major data centre in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa prefecture, as a springboard to drive “operational resilience and process automation” in the broader data centre market. The Fujitsu project, to...

The Sunday Brief: Glass half full or empty? (Jennifer Fritzsche, guest columnist)

Editor’s note:  We are very thankful for friends like Jennifer who are there when parental moves come into the picture.  Today’s opening picture was snapped last night as we prepared for the last leg of the “Planes, Automobiles, Hurricane, U-Haul, Trains” variant of the...

Arm aims Neoverse V2 and E2 at cloud, 5G and edge servers

Arm ups performance and efficiency in new designs to compete with AMD and Intel Fabless semiconductor maker Arm Ltd. has announced new chip designs that will power the next generation of cloud computing, 5G and High-Performance Computing (HPC) hardware coming next year, to compete with products from...

Juniper promises flexible data center management with Apstra Freeform

The new expansion promises support for any data center topology Juniper Networks this week announced Apstra Freeform, a new expansion to their intent-based data center automation and assurance platform. Apstra Freeform’s cornerstone feature is a new reference design that covers any topology, providing additional flexibility for...

Telco trends around cloudificaton and edge move market to Zayo

Zayo CEO sees edge as requiring data center capacity, networking and other service support Multiple mega-trends impacting how telecommunications operators strategically evolve their own businesses while delivering solutions for the digital transformation of their customers depend on access to fiber optic infrastructure. Whether that’s network...

Amid rocky quarter, Marvell sees fewer supply chain issues, predicts wireless growth

"Growth in 5G adoption" drove $600M in annual wireless revenue – CEO Semiconductor maker Marvell Technology posted results for its second fiscal quarter on Thursday, with revenues of $1.52 billion for the June quarter, offering adjusted earnings of 57 cents per share. Those numbers were...

Nvidia earnings fall short on gaming glut

Supply chain issues affected Nvidia’s data center sales, and weak guidance suggests a soft Q3 as well Nvidia announced Q2 earnings after the markets closed on Wednesday, posting revenue of $6.7 billion for the quarter ending July 31, 2022. Net revenue dropped 72% year over year (YoY)...

Stonepeak to buy 29% stake in American Tower’s US data center business

American Tower will retain managerial and operational control of the data center business American Tower Corporation and Stonepeak, an investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, announced that Stonepeak, on behalf of certain affiliated investment vehicles, will acquire an ownership interest of approximately 29%...

Microsoft’s Dublin, Ireland data center to put power back on the grid

Microsoft will begin local power grid conditioning in Ireland later this year The world is turning to renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve environmental quality. But renewable energy can be wildly variable — solar power efficiency is reduced on cloudy days and,...

Service providers, enterprises drove compute and storage sales – report

Service providers, including CSPs, accounted for 55.3% of quarterly compute and storage infrastructure sales, according to IDC.

Vodafone to migrate systems to Oracle’s dedicated cloud platform

Oracle will deploy dedicated cloud regions in Vodafone's main data centers that manage its European IT and network operations Vodafone is accelerating its transition to the cloud with the migration of several of its systems to Oracle’s managed cloud region called Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer (DRCC). The...

Nvidia focuses on data centers with new ‘superchip,’ A100 offerings

Nvidia is focusing on improved data center processing power and efficiency with new "superchip" server reference designs and liquid cooling.

Google announces $9.5 billion U.S. expansion

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a $9.5 billion capital expansion that will see new offices and expanded data centers across the U.S.

7 ways to choose a sustainable data center for your company (Reader Forum)

Environmental sustainability has become a major goal for every industry. As the planet warms up, people are more concerned about the future. As a result, the shareholder pressure forces companies to adopt more sustainable business practices. The IT industry is also under similar pressure. Therefore,...

AI driving rapid change in network computing and data centers (Reader Forum)

In the world of network computing and data centers, any 2022 planning report destined for company decision makers likely has three familiar words in the summary text: distributed IT infrastructure. Accelerated change brought on by the pandemic is forcing companies large and small to reimagine...

HPE software problem spikes 77 TB of Kyoto University research

HPE has acknowledged a December software bug that ended up deleting 77TB of research data on a Kyoto University Cray/HPE supercomputer

AWS regional outage cripples Amazon and hosted services

AWS's biggest global region was unresponsive for several hours on Tuesday following an "impairment of network devices."

FTC sues to stop Nvidia’s Arm acquisition

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing Nvidia Corp. to stop its US$40 billion acquisition of UK-based Arm Ltd. from Japan's SoftBank.

Google Cloud expands global infrastructure, underscores sustainability, human rights

Google Cloud expands its global infrastructure with new regions in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and United States.

Alibaba Cloud pushes into South Korea, Thailand with faster, more efficient data centers

Alibaba Cloud is expanding data center operations to South Korea and Thailand, and is offering faster, more efficient server hardware.

Nvidia boosts GeForce Now cloud gaming service with RTX 3080 clusters

Nvidia's new GeForce Now RTX 3080 SuperPods promise console gaming performance in the cloud, for gamers willing to pay a premium.

Marvell looks to grow cloud data center business with Innovium acquisition

Marvell projects $150 million incremental revenue increase in 2023 Marvell Technology, a data center semiconductor specialist, announced this week a "definitive agreement" to acquire Innovium in all stock transaction valued at $1.1 billion and set to close by year end pending approval from shareholders and...

Juniper to acquire intent-based networking company Apstra

David Cheriton to join Juniper Networks as chief data center scientist In its third recent acquisition, Juniper Networks turns its attention to closed-loop automation in the data center, with the announcement that the company has agreed to acquire intent-based networking company Apstra. As Juniper describes...

Microsoft plans $1 billion data center investment in Greece

'Greece has the sun and now it’s getting a cloud,' said Greek Prime Minister Microsoft plans to build three data centers in Greece, resulting in an investment of approximately $1 billion into the Greek economy. The country’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, along with Microsoft, announced...