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Western Digital will get a big load of hard drives and hard drive technologies when it finally completes the acquisition of Hitachi, but now it can add some extra data center resources to the list.
Hitachi has issued a press release in which it announces that its product portfolio, as well as overall assets collect... |
13 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Showing that it is at least as committed on the enterprise front as it is on the consumer market, Dell has made the official announcement of its newest technology outlet, a so-called world-class, multi-client data center.
Dell is aiming for enterprises in search of secure private and hybrid clouds, as well as any o... |
13 February 2012
11:14 GMT |
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We suppose it was just a matter of time before even servers and data centers started using wireless broadband.
It so happens that Microsoft and the University of Washington tested wireless networks on servers.
Since data centers sometimes get overloaded during peak times, administrators usually require them for ext... |
16 January 2012
11:08 GMT |
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Apple has a month to decide whether or not it will build a large data center in Prineville, Oregon, just a quarter mile south of Facebook’s own data center that went online earlier this year.Citing two people with direct knowledge of Apple's plans. OregonLive reveals that Apple's plans to expand iClou... |
5 December 2011
10:59 GMT |
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IBM, finally built on all those promises of the IT industry that there would soon be solar-powered data centers, by inventing the first array meant to provide that energy.
It is fortunate for the IT industry that solar cells and all the technology related to harnessing solar power has evolved.
It was all that prog... |
4 November 2011
20:01 GMT |
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We already mentioned that HP has become the first reason of alarm for Intel by adopting ARM server designs and, true enough, the 'Project Moonshot' low-energy server technology got officially unraveled.
According to this press release, HP isn't going to take its sweet time developing newer, low-power... |
2 November 2011
06:24 GMT |
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As ARM begins making chips usable in servers, even the big players on the server and data center markets are showing interest in the possibility of adopting them instead of x86 chips.
Intel's x86 architecture has basically been, for a long time, the holder of a monopoly, of sorts, over servers, data centers an... |
2 November 2011
04:21 GMT |
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Facebook is building a huge data center site in northern Sweden, very close to the Arctic circle. The data center will be the company's first outside of the US and will be massive.Facebook is taking advantage of the cold climate of the area to keep the thousands of servers cool without wasting too much energy. T... |
27 October 2011
07:56 GMT |
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Officially unveiled by Steve Jobs during the WWDC 2011 keynote address, Apple’s enormous data center located in Maiden, North Carolina, is getting its own power plant. And it’s being fueled by the huge ball of burning hydrogen lighting up every day of our lives - the sun.The business section of Charlotteo... |
26 October 2011
07:14 GMT |
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Yahoo! has lost its chief of Global Data Center Infrastructure, Scott Noteboom, to Apple Inc. sources say. Noteboom will likely oversee Apple's servers as the Cupertino giant prepares to expand iCloud and various iTunes offerings.Mr. Noteboom is now a "distinguished gentleman" at Apple, according to his LinkedIn... |
24 October 2011
07:20 GMT |
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Estimates for what Facebook is making are all over the map. The best guess is that the company should be making a few billion dollars in revenue this year. It's not much compared to Google for example, but it's a big jump from last year, which was a big jump from the year before that and so on.Along with al... |
17 October 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Google's most advanced data center yet went live over the weekend. It's one of the company's biggest in Europe yet and it's one of the most energy efficient, but that's not what sets it apart.
The new data center in Hamina, Finland is Google's first water cooled data center. Because o... |
12 September 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Hitachi made the news for a variety of things recently, and it looks like it is doing so once more, or it would be more precise to say that one of its subsidiaries has made a fairly bold move, namely enacting the acquisition of BlueArc. When speaking of Hitachi, one might think about the new 4 TB hard dis... |
8 September 2011
08:51 GMT |
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IBM may have sparked interest lately by making cognitive processors, but it has again looked to the storage segment ,where it hopes to set a massive new record in terms of sheer capacity.IBM definitely stirred the sleeping curiosity of many feelings by announcing that it had made cognitive computers, systems that ca... |
26 August 2011
10:09 GMT |
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In keeping with the 'tradition' on the data center market, Dell released a whole collection of hardware products, as well as accompanying software solutions for virtualization and cloud infrastructure.Dell's EqualLogic product line saw new blood today, in the shape of the EqualLogic PS4100 Series and ... |
22 August 2011
10:19 GMT |
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Solar and wind power may not be easy to harness for day to day activities and consumer electronics, but larger installations can definitely benefit from them, something that AMD seems quite certain of, considering its most recent announcement.The past years have seen quite a few advancements as far as harnessing sou... |
1 August 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Google is very concerned about its carbon footprint and is looking at various ways it can have a smaller impact on the environment. One way is by investing in green energy projects, ensuring that the energy its data centers consume is clean, coming from a renewable source.But that's just one half of the equation... |
24 May 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Google is giving its users a rare glimpse into one of its data centers with a new video it released, to boast about the security and reliability measures it employs to ensure that its customers' data remains safe. The company is notoriously secretive about its data centers so this video is one of the few chanc... |
23 April 2011
06:21 GMT |
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One may know that the Gigabit Ethernet interface is the new norm for consumer desktops, but 10 Gb Ethernet cards are the ones running rampant on the data center virtualization market, a market which Exar has, apparently, decided to back out of.The amount of data available on the web is growing, as is the amount of u... |
5 March 2011
06:48 GMT |
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Amazon is expanding greatly in Europe with the acquisition of a large warehouse in Dublin to house a huge new data center. The new location will power Amazon's Web Services unit and will serve the European region. There are official confirmations but only an estimated price. The deal is believed to be one of the... |
10 February 2011
11:49 GMT |
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Facebook is now getting ready to build its second data center, even as its first is still under construction. The social network plans to build a data center in North Carolina to serve the US East Coast. The project is expected to cost $450 million and will take 18 months to complete. “After a rigorous review o... |
12 November 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Following a long-term collaboration between the two companies, IBM announced its imminent acquisition of BLADE Network Technologies in a joint press release.With a portfolio including more than half of the Fortune 500 list, BLADE will provide all the right tools for IBM to competitively go against Cisco, Dell and HP ... |
29 September 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Go Daddy, currently the most popular website hosting platform in the world, has recently expanded its business in Asia by opening a new data center.The launch from Singapore is meant to help the company manage with greater speed the Web hosting and e-mail services from Asia. Due to the new data center, website owner... |
27 September 2010
03:05 GMT |
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In an attempt to cut down electricity costs for its data centers, Yahoo decided to create an eco-friendly design largely based on wind-power for cooling the servers. The plan worked, and they now need to pay only one cent for cooling for every dollar spent on electricity.The energy-efficient data center is located i... |
23 September 2010
01:18 GMT |
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Facebook is well on its way of becoming the largest website on the planet. It’s also one of the most complex and the day-to-day activities of hundreds of millions of people put a huge strain on its infrastructure. But, flush with funding from eager investors, Facebook has started work on its own data cente... |
2 August 2010
05:25 GMT |
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As sites get larger, scalability becomes more of an issue. For sites with a modest audience, there are tried and tested tools, but for the biggest sites on the web, there are very few existing options. They’re venturing into unknown territory and have to come up with solutions for problems that few if any have ... |
17 July 2010
05:46 GMT |
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Like any well-to-do PC maker, Dell makes a point of being at least as prominent on the enterprise front as it is on the consumer market. As such, it is on a constant lookout for ways to increase its portfolio of intellectual property (IP). Buying patents is, of course, one option to achieve this goal. The other is t... |
3 July 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Every web startup dreams of amassing millions of users and seeing the kind of growth Facebook or Twitter have. But all this growth may be a curse as much as a blessing if your infrastructure can’t keep up. Looking at Twitter’s recent troubles, it’s an easy point to prove. Facebook, on the other hand... |
29 June 2010
04:14 GMT |
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Though solar power, geothermal energy and eolian energy are the three main resources that scientists are trying to harness as efficiently as possible, there is a certain natural resource that may turn out to be far more accessible, at least in the short term, than these three. Said resource might not be the first gue... |
19 May 2010
09:27 GMT |
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Facebook is now one of the biggest web sites in the world in terms of traffic and users and certainly one of the most complex. The varied nature of the actions users can make on the site also take a heavy toll on the infrastructure. This makes it surprising that Facebook has so far relied on rented data centers to p... |
22 January 2010
06:52 GMT |
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A few years ago, Cisco made a daring incursion into the corporate telephony market, even though it had absolutely no experience in that area or even knowledge of how that market worked. Nevertheless, the world-class networking gear provider did rather well for itself, securing no less than 33% of the entire market. C... |
9 December 2009
05:19 GMT |
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IBM is well known for its advancements in high-performance computing, green computing, enterprise server and cloud computing alike. Big Blue doesn't seem to be taking any breaks and, not long after disclosing plans for the creation of yet another highly powerful and environmentally friendly supercomputer (the Bl... |
9 December 2009
04:39 GMT |
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The new Green Data Center inaugurated by the Syracuse University, IBM and the Sate of New York was announced back in May and is an example of IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, an initiative focused on assisting clients in the use of digital intelligence, improving products and whole systems alike. The data center... |
3 December 2009
05:21 GMT |
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As cloud computing evolves, the need for larger data centers also grows, consequently raising the issue for more efficient cooling solutions. A city power firm in Finland is reportedly looking to unveil what it thinks will be the greenest data center on the planet, as the company plans to use the excess heat from hu... |
30 November 2009
05:47 GMT |
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The economical worldwide crisis is said to have affected every aspect of life on the planet. Economy, culture, religion, commerce, everything had to suffer because of it. Everything except the data-center outsourcing, that is. Europe has seen a huge number of emerging data centers and the total revenue for 2010 is an... |
13 November 2009
09:06 GMT |
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Facebook is the world's largest social network by a large margin. With 300 million users and closing in on 350 million by the year's end, the social network is one of the most visited places online. And because of the nature of the service people tend to stick around for longer navigating the site. Add to t... |
14 October 2009
11:10 GMT |
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As countries from Europe continue to have a better Internet adoption rate among its population numbers, the business world will have to adapt to the changes in technology and consider launching local products for the EU region more and more. Acting on this market trend and on its internal statistics analysis, the Go ... |
18 September 2009
11:03 GMT |
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The Sun – Oracle merger makes another victim. One of Sun's veterans, Dean Nelson, has left his job with Sun to join eBay as the senior director of global data center strategy, architecture, and operations, citing job “uncertainty.” This move comes after eBay's Data Center Chief Operator, O... |
9 September 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Saving costs and reducing the energy consumption are among the main priorities of today's professional users looking for a new server system to meet their data center performance requirements. In that perspective, new technologies emerge every day trying to provide customers with new ways to improve efficiency, ... |
26 August 2009
06:53 GMT |
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Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced today the opening of its green data center in Yokohama, Japan, which the company claims to be one of the most robust and reliable in the industry, occupying 10,000 square meters of total floor space. In addition, according to Hitachi, the newly opened Yokohama Third Cent... |
24 August 2009
11:18 GMT |
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A fire at the Seattle Fisher Plaza data center caused outages for a number of websites including Bing Travel, Microsoft's travel planning site, and Authorize.net, an important payment gateway service provider processing credit card and e-check data for online vendors.“Last night at approximately 11:10 pm, ... |
4 July 2009
04:15 GMT |
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The Microsoft Cloud, Online and Windows Live services are about to get a boost in terms of support with the Redmond company gearing up to open two new mega data centers, according to Arne Josefsberg, general manager of Infrastructure Services, Global Foundation Services. The new facilities are located in Dublin and C... |
30 June 2009
07:53 GMT |
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The global economic crisis provides ample opportunity to reinvigorate the focus on increasing efficiency on all aspects that combine to drive business success and data center operations make no exception to this. Microsoft is no stranger to efforts designed to increase the efficiency of data centers, from cutting cos... |
3 April 2009
05:56 GMT |
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With its data centers running in recession mode, Microsoft has announced the birth of Cloud Computing Futures. Having a key concept at heart, a vision in which the data center is nothing more than a computer, Cloud Computing Futures aims to no less than apply the same design and programming strategies as for any inte... |
25 February 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Using the global economic downturn as argument, Microsoft revealed that it had interrupted the construction of new data centers, even though the company needed to evolve its infrastructure in order to be on par with its Cloud vision. One of the projects that was postponed indefinitely was the $500 million data center... |
26 January 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Going green is the latest thing to do in the computing industry. Consequently, we are seeing several major companies resorting to a more energy-efficient business plan, which takes care of several aspects, including infrastructure. Search engine giant Google is one of these companies that are currently transitioning ... |
8 October 2008
05:02 GMT |
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Intel has recently concluded a ten-month experiment on energy saving solutions for data centers announcing that a possible answer to power and money saving would be fresh air cooling. According to the chip manufacturer giant, the experiment took place in the New Mexico desert, and air conditioning was replaced with p... |
20 September 2008
04:19 GMT |
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Google has applied for a new patent, this time for a water-based data center. The company plans to build several systems more or less at a close distance from the shore, as land is continuously being crowded by huge data centers, which use a lot of conventional energy. Each center, if approved by the US Patent &... |
8 September 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Those of you who think that online identity theft is the worst that can happen, here's the bad news: how about thieves that steal not only your data, but the entire web server as well? This is exactly what happened to Peter Gabriel's website yesterday morning when all the browser requests for the webpage en... |
6 May 2008
10:05 GMT |
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IBM has pulled out of its sleeve a new series of Web 2.0-ready servers in the iDataPlex family. The new computers are especially tailored to suit the demands of Web 2.0 sites, and can face the heavy traffic usually associated with popular social networking sites. According to the company, the iDataPlex architecture c... |
24 April 2008
03:47 GMT |
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