Microsoft Workers Slept in Data Centers Due to Government Lockdown

Microsoft Workers Slept in Data Centers Due to Government Lockdown

Some employees just had to work on site last year

Google Has to Hand Over Emails Stored on Foreign Data Centers, Unlike Microsoft

Google Has to Hand Over Emails Stored on Foreign Data Centers, Unlike Microsoft

The judge is trying to overturn the Microsoft ruling

Database Hardware Failure Shuts Down Australia's Stock Market Twice in a Day

Database Hardware Failure Shuts Down Australia's Stock Market Twice in a Day

ASX set to return operations to normal today

Fire Drill Gone Bad Shuts Down An ING Bank Data Center for Ten Hours

Fire Drill Gone Bad Shuts Down An ING Bank Data Center for Ten Hours

High-pitched sound destroys bank's data storage drives

NSA Data Center Experiences Up to 300 Million Cyber-Attacks per Day

NSA Data Center Experiences Up to 300 Million Cyber-Attacks per Day

Six years ago, the cyber-attacks barely reached 25,000

One in Five Data Centers Outages Is Caused by DDoS Attacks

One in Five Data Centers Outages Is Caused by DDoS Attacks

Outages caused by IT equipment failures are the most expensive incidents to fix, at $995 per interruption

Microsoft Launches Project Natick to Build Data Centers Underwater

Microsoft Launches Project Natick to Build Data Centers Underwater

Such a data center can be deployed in just 90 days

  • Memory
  • By Horia Despa
  • October 9th, 2015
HP Launches a New "Storage Class Memory" for Enterprise

HP Launches a New "Storage Class Memory" for Enterprise

HP will fight Intel to establish a new memory standard

  • Cloud
  • By Catalin Cimpanu
  • October 4th, 2015
The US Accounts for Almost Half of the World's Data Centers

The US Accounts for Almost Half of the World's Data Centers

AWS, IBM and Microsoft have the most data centers

Cisco Discovered a Major but Incredibly Simple Design Flaw in Its Switches

Cisco Discovered a Major but Incredibly Simple Design Flaw in Its Switches

One Ethernet plug in the wrong port and down goes the system

Google to Open Data Center on the Remnants of an Old Power Plant

Google to Open Data Center on the Remnants of an Old Power Plant

The data center will be located in Jackson County, Alabama

​Facebook Wants to Build Data Center in Ireland

​Facebook Wants to Build Data Center in Ireland

Dublin is among the most wanted places for server farms

Microsoft Building New $1.1 Billion Data Center in Iowa

Microsoft Building New $1.1 Billion Data Center in Iowa

The first two buildings will be finalized very soon

  • Apple
  • By Filip Truta
  • February 23rd, 2015
Apple Invests €1.7 Billion in Two European Data Centers

Apple Invests €1.7 Billion in Two European Data Centers

Powered by renewable energy, the facilities will be located in County Galway, Ireland, and Denmark’s central Jutland

  • Apple
  • By Filip Truta
  • February 3rd, 2015
Apple Spends a Fortune on New Command Center in Arizona

Apple Spends a Fortune on New Command Center in Arizona

Company to power the facility with 100% renewable energy

  • Cloud
  • By Gabriela Vatu
  • October 23rd, 2014
Amazon Cloud Service Opens Data Center in Germany, Hopes to Dodge NSA-Generated Mistrust

Amazon Cloud Service Opens Data Center in Germany, Hopes to Dodge NSA-Generated Mistrust

By opening this new data center, Amazon could attract more people that were leery of using a service based in the US

  • CPU
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • September 30th, 2014
AMD Demos Hadoop Big Data Software on ARM-Based Opteron A CPUs

AMD Demos Hadoop Big Data Software on ARM-Based Opteron A CPUs

AMD finally puts its hat where its mouth is

 
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