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IT to shoulder more responsibility for data center sustainability

Data-center IT teams must balance the need to consume less electrical power with the need to use power-hungry next-gen silicon, Uptime Institute says.

Jan 20, 2023 7 mins

Data Center Servers Sustainable IT

Roundup of server vendors using new Xeon processors

From HPE to Inspur, server vendors are coming out with dozens of new configurations.

Jan 17, 2023 6 mins

Servers

IBM boosts Power CPU core count…for Oracle

IBM will quadruple the core count of its RISC CPUs specifically to benefit one of Oracle’s databases, perhaps to get around licensing issues, but won't say exactly why.

Jan 17, 2023 3 mins

Servers

Top 10 outages of 2022

The biggest outages of 2022 hindered services from AWS, British Airways, Google, Twitter and more, according to Cisco-owned network intelligence company ThousandEyes.

Jan 13, 2023 10 mins

Cloud Computing Data Center Telecommunications Industry

Nvidia, others promise to use new Intel Xeon processors

Intel's 4th Generation Xeon processors include virtual machine security as well as AI accelerators.

Jan 11, 2023 4 mins

Servers

Cisco amps-up its UCS server line with new Intel processors

New high-end Cisco Unified Computing System servers with the 4th Generation Xeon processors will be more powerful and energy efficient.

Jan 10, 2023 2 mins

Cisco Systems Server Virtualization Servers

AMD unveils exascale data-center accelerator at CES

The Instinct MI300 server accelerator from AMD looks like an absolute beast on paper, with eight times the performance of its predecessor.

Jan 10, 2023 3 mins

Servers

Gigabyte spins off its enterprise business to better serve enterprises

Giga Computing Technology is a new Gigabyte subsidiary focused on supporting servers and other enterprise gear as well as liquid cooling.

Jan 10, 2023 2 mins

Servers

Microsoft to acquire Fungible for augmenting Azure networking, storage

Fungible acquisition is aimed at accelerating networking and storage performance in datacenters with high-efficiency, low-power data processing units.

Jan 10, 2023 2 mins

Data Center Mergers and Acquisitions Microsoft

7 ways to secure backup data

Encryption, immutability, tape, and third-party key management are among measures to keep data backups safer.

Jan 10, 2023 3 mins

Data Center