Will Monday’s downtime for some customers of Amazon Web Services have a lasting impact for AWS, the largest player in the cloud computing arena? The incident is unlikely to cause any kind of mass exodus, and doesn’t discredit cloud as…
Will Monday’s downtime for some customers of Amazon Web Services have a lasting impact for AWS, the largest player in the cloud computing arena? The incident is unlikely to cause any kind of mass exodus, and doesn’t discredit cloud as…
The modern data center is evolving to become a technological hub hosting new types of virtualization and cloud technologies. There are numerous benefits to working with both virtualization and cloud computing – but this has also introduced new levels of…
Power and cooling continue to strain even the most modern data centers. Industry analysts estimate that data centers consume ~1.5 percent of the total available energy supply worldwide. And this percentage is going up. In addition to dealing with the…
Google invested $872 million in its Internet infrastructure in the third quarter of 2012, up from $774 million the previous quarter, the company said in its earnings announcement. Over the last four quarters, Google has invested nearly $3.2 billion in…
Cisco today announced that the Hertz Corporation, the world’s largest general use car rental brand, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) as its new server platform in Europe. Cisco UCS enabled Hertz to virtualise its IT architecture…
A minimum of 10 percent of the power provided to the facility will be wind energy from the nearby Happy Jack Wind Farm. NCAR and UCAR say they will continue to explore options to increase the percentage of renewable energy…
The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming opens its doors today, unleashing a powerful supercomputer on an ambitious agenda of experiments that will improve predictions of earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes. The NCAR center is home to Yellowstone, a new 1.5-petaflop IBM…
NetApp (NTAP) and Cisco (CSCO) introduced ExpressPod, a prepackaged and tested solution for growing small and medium-sized organizations. The two companies have also added new storage clustering capabilities to the FlexPod data center platform, and announced the release of a validated VMware…
IBM and AT&T (T) announced a business agreement to delivery a secure, network-enabled cloud service that uses private networks rather than the public internet. The companies are combining AT&T virtual private networking and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud capabilities with technology from…
VMware (VMW) unveiled an updated cloud management portfolio, including improved ability to manage multiple hypervisors and cloud assets at Amazon Web Services. VMware’s new vCloud Automation Center 5.1 is based on DynamicOps, which VMware acquired in July 2012, VMware vCloud Automation…
