Enterprise IT has seen quite an evolution in the past decade, with more and more data processed through smaller, more intricate systems. Cloud computing has brought about a whole swathe of major tech companies, dominating an area – big data…
Enterprise IT has seen quite an evolution in the past decade, with more and more data processed through smaller, more intricate systems. Cloud computing has brought about a whole swathe of major tech companies, dominating an area – big data…
Things move fast at Facebook. The company has been known to have new engineers write and deploy new features to the platform on their first day on the job. Combined with the rate of growth of its user base, this…
Shaw Communications announced it will offer enterprise cloud and data management services out of a new data center in Calgary beginning this fall. Shaw will offer cloud hosting, colocation, and managed services from its new 40,000 square foot facility to…
The tech sector’s investment in renewables is on the rise, growing faster than any other sector’s, and some of the biggest investments are in connection with massive data center projects. Just this month, Facebook announced a 200 MW wind-power contract…
Emerson and Eaton make additions to backup data center power product lines, and Power Analytics secures patents for its arc flash protection software.Emerson Network Power, soon to be a stand-alone entity, separate from Emerson Electric, claims to have redesigned its…
DuPont Fabros Technology this week announced it has opened a new 336,000-square-foot data center facility in the Chicago area that at full build-out will have critical load capacity totaling 25.6 MW, according to the company. Built across the street from…
The value proposition of a managed service provider has always been taking over laborious and complicated aspects of a company’s IT, so that the company may focus on core competencies. So what happens when these businesses want to leverage the…
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…
