AMD unveiled its new Opteron 6300 Series server processors based on its next-generation “Piledriver” core architecture. The 6300 series is designed to boost performance and scalability in virtualized server platforms for private and public cloud deployments, big data systems and high-performance…
While unemployment figures hardly create cause for optimism, the technology sector is proving an outlier with plenty of jobs available in some of the multinational firms located here. Currently 16 multinational tech-based companies have 794 Irish-based open positions on offer…
As SuperStorm Sandy brought destruction and death to the East Coast, data centers in New York and New Jersey faced extraordinary challenges. Here’s a look back at the storm and its aftermath, as chronicled in our coverage at Data Center…
The Windows Azure public cloud is coming to China. Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the municipality of Shanghai, and signed agreement to license Microsoft technologies to 21Vianet, who will offer Azure in China out of local…
Temperatures inside a Zayo Group data center at 111 8th Avenue in New York City briefly soared past 100 degrees on the 1st of November, as generator problems forced the company to power down its cooling systems. The company has since…
As IT managers and CIOs worked to get their heads around cloud a separate revolution was raging in terms of BYOD and consumerisation of IT. Now, warns Citrix country manager Grace O’Rourke Veitch, they are hard-pressed to deal with the…
This Data Center Knowledge article series will explore how to improve data center efficiency through containment and effective airflow management strategies. Data center operators understand how the growing demand for compute cycles, web-based applications and content are driving data centers…
As Thursday dawned on lower Manhattan, the city’s battered data centers continued their recovery efforts. Wednesday was a day of fast-moving events, as some facilities that were down came back online, and some that were up went down. Several of…
“Why build off-site via factory construction?” “How will customizing my modular data center and building it in a factory benefit me?” These questions are becoming more and more frequently asked in the modular data center industry. Yet, there is no one answer…
The Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a 20-petaflop Cray XK7 system that is faster than the current Top 500 champion. Click the image for a larger version. (Photo: Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Jaguar has become Titan, and…
