Data Center Explorer
With Tableau, SaaS king Salesforce becomes a hybrid cloud company
Once dismissive of software, Salesforce acknowledges the inevitability of the hybrid cloud.
06/19/2019
Western Digital launches open-source zettabyte storage initiative
Western Digital's Zoned Storage initiative uses new technology to create more efficient zettabyte-scale data storage for data centers by improving how data is organized when it is stored.
06/14/2019
Oracle updates Exadata at long last with AI and machine learning abilities
Oracle announced an update to its Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8 server line that includes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities, plus support for hybrid cloud.
06/13/2019
Dell and Cisco extend VxBlock integration with new features
Dell EMC and Cisco took another step in their alliance, announcing plans to expand VxBlock 1000 integration across servers, networking, storage, and data protection.
06/12/2019
The carbon footprints of IT shops that train AI models are huge
Artificial intelligence model training can generate five times more carbon dioxide than a car does in a lifetime, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst find.
06/11/2019
Can Huawei survive, and what should customers do?
Cut off from most western technology, Huawei might not be able to make a go outside of China, which could be trouble for western customers.
06/06/2019
Data center workloads become more complex despite promises to the contrary
The data center is shouldering a greater burden than ever, despite promises of ease and the cloud, a new Uptime Institute report finds.
06/04/2019
Nvidia launches edge computing platform for AI processing
EGX platform goes to the edge to do as much processing there as possible before sending data upstream to major data centers.
05/29/2019
With Cray buy, HPE rules but does not own the supercomputing market
In buying supercomputer vendor Cray, HPE has strengthened its high-performance-computing technology, but serious competitors remain.
05/28/2019
Benchmarks of forthcoming Epyc 2 processor leaked
Benchmarks of AMD's second-generation Epyc server, code-named “Rome,” briefly found their way online and show the chip is larger but a little slower than the Epyc 7601.
05/23/2019
French IT giant Atos enters the edge-computing business
Atos takes a different approach to edge computing with a device called BullSequana Edge that's the size of a suitcase.
05/22/2019
Microsoft issues fixes for non-supported versions of Windows Server
Critical vulnerability force Microsoft to patch versions of Windows Server and desktops that are long out of support.
05/17/2019
Nutanix offers unified data backup and recovery, allies with AMD
Nutanix Mine essentially turns a Nutanix system into a backup appliance, putting primary and secondary storage in one place.
05/13/2019
Supermicro moves production from China
Supermicro was cleared of any activity related to the Chinese government and secret chips in its motherboards, but it is taking no chances and is moving its facilities.
05/10/2019
Backblaze report shows slight uptick in HDD failure rates
Annualized failure rates of hard-disk drives (HDD) had fallen over the past few years, but Q1 2019 shows a slight increase, a new Backblaze report shows.
05/08/2019
Server shipments to pick up in the second half of 2019
Server sales slowed in anticipation of the new Intel Xeon processors, but they are expected to start up again before the end of the year.
05/07/2019
Some IT pros say they have too much data
IT professionals have too many data sources to count, and they spend a huge amount of time wrestling that data into usable condition, a survey from Ivanti finds.
05/07/2019
Dell EMC launches GPU-loaded machine learning server
Dell EMC unveiled a high-end machine learning server for the data center that has four, eight, or even 10 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs for processing power.
05/06/2019
Dell enters the on-premises, pay-as-you-go business with VMware’s help
Dell EMC has an alliance with VMware to offer Dell EMC hardware on-premises without having to buy it outright.
05/01/2019
Vapor IO provides direct, high-speed connections from the edge to AWS
Edge computing startup Vapor IO now offers a direct connection between its edge containers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) via a high-speed fiber network link.
05/01/2019
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