As part of a multi-year effort that promises to yield advances in high-performance computing, IBM, Nvidia, and two US Department of Energy national laboratories announced this week they have created two centers of excellence for supercomputing. Announced at the International…
Amazon Web Services announced another investment in renewable-energy generation, reportedly its biggest one to date, but did not disclose the size of the investment. The future wind farm in North Carolina will pump clean energy into the local utility grid,…
Bare-metal cloud servers are a best-of-both-worlds alternative to dedicated hosting and VM-based cloud infrastructure services in some cases, but they do complicate data center capacity management for the service provider. CenturyLink rolled out its bare-metal cloud service this morning, but…
Eircom, which yesterday reported a six per cent drop in yearly revenues to €1.28 billion, has denied recent speculation that it held discussions over a potential sale with US company AT&T or Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who owns America…
The Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA) has today (15.07.14) announced the appointment of Gerry Macken as its Interim CEO. His appointment follows the departure of Edel Flynn, who served as Interim CEO of The Digital Hub since April 2013, following…
Members of the 90s rock band Live decided data was the new punk rock and started Think Loud, a project to build data centers in four Pennsylvania cities, as well as a fiber line from New York to Northern Virginia.…
This is the third feature in our three-part series on the growing data center market for Bitcoin mining. Read the first one about a new breed of colocation for Bitcoin infrastructure or the second one about the tough economics of…
The revolution in software-defined networking (SDN) that is sweeping the data centre and telecoms industries has been inspired by the collision of virtualisation with advanced processing capabilities, said Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Pitt was…
Telecom carriers are looking to virtualisation to give them greater agility to compete with web companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services, says Bethany Mayer, HP’s senior vice-president and general manager of Network Functions Virtualisation Business. Mayer was…
Ireland has found itself in No Man’s Land amidst a post-Edward Snowden battle between software company Microsoft and US authorities over whether data stored in data centres outside the US can be subject to search warrants. An ongoing legal battle…
