Data Center

Rackspace adds more power to hosted servers

The end result is an almost three-fold improvement in overall performance

How helium will yield higher-capacity hard drives

As hard drive makers struggle to stay relevant, one solution is very high-capacity drives, and the way they get there is interesting.

Acer CEO resigns as company plans restructuring and layoffs

Acer president Jim Wong will replace Wang as CEO

Earthshaking news! Milky Way may hold billions of Earth-like planets

Data compiled by NASA's Kepler space telescope ushers in a 'new era of astronomy,' experts say

Chinese professor builds Li-Fi system with retail parts

HealthCare.gov’s enrollment system crashes Monday

More service interruptions are likely, officials say

Google escalates offensive against Office with Android ‘KitKat’

Android 4.4 includes Quickoffice, mobile substitute for Microsoft's cash cow

Hadoop brings far-flung people together across time and space

EHarmony and Ancestry.com use Hadoop to extend the range of people they connect

Mystery barge bets see floating data center as shoo-in

Bettors see Google Glass showroom, space elevator and self-driving barges are long-shots

New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives

The new supercomputer, called Catalyst, has 281TB of SSD storage