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Gartner: Just 12% of IT infrastructure pros outpace CIO expectations

Budget constraints, security concerns, and lack of talent can hamstring infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals.

Dec 7, 2023 4 mins

Data Center Industry Network Security

Data centers unprepared for new European energy efficiency regulations

Regulatory pressure is driving IT teams to invest in more efficient servers and storage and improve their data-center reporting capabilities.

Dec 7, 2023 7 mins

Enterprise Storage Servers Sustainable IT

AMD launches Instinct AI accelerator to compete with Nvidia

AMD enters the AI acceleration game with broad industry support. First shipping product is the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with AMD Instinct MI300X.

Dec 7, 2023 6 mins

CPUs and Processors Data Center Generative AI

Western Digital keeps HDDs relevant with major capacity boost

Western Digital and rival Seagate are finding new ways to pack data onto disk platters, keeping them relevant in the age of solid-state drives (SSD).

Dec 6, 2023 4 mins

Data Center Enterprise Storage

EU approves $1.3B in aid for cloud, edge computing

New projects focus on areas including open source software to help connect edge services, and application interoperability.

Dec 5, 2023 3 mins

Cloud Computing Edge Computing Technology Industry

Startups look to revamp power-guzzling data centers

As AI workloads strain traditional facilities, these 10 startups are working to reduce resource consumption through liquid cooling, digital boiler technology, and net zero data center initiatives.

Dec 5, 2023 14 mins

Data Center Data Center Management Sustainable IT

Omdia: AI boosts server spending but unit sales still plunge

A rush to build AI capacity using expensive coprocessors is jacking up the prices of servers, says research firm Omdia.

Dec 4, 2023 4 mins

CPUs and Processors Data Center Generative AI

IBM unveils Heron quantum processor and new modular quantum computer

IBM also shared its 10-year quantum computing roadmap, which prioritizes improvements in gate operations and error-correction capabilities.

Dec 4, 2023 5 mins

CPUs and Processors Data Center High-Performance Computing

Is immersion cooling ready for mainstream?

Liquid cooling started as a fringe technology but is becoming more common. Proponents hope the same holds true for immersion cooling.

Dec 4, 2023 9 mins

Data Center Sustainable IT

Mainframe modernization gets a boost from Kyndryl, AWS collaboration

Kyndryl and AWS have expanded their partnership to help enterprise customers simplify and accelerate their mainframe modernization initiatives.

Nov 30, 2023 4 mins

Cloud Computing Data Center Mainframes