Industry Hardware Intel teams up with other tech giants for Compute Express Link, a high-speed interconnect for data centers Improving performance and removing bottlenecks By Rob Thubron , March 12, 2019, 5:25 AM
Industry Nvidia makes $6.9 billion acquisition in bid for chip maker Mellanox Intel was also in a bidding war for the Israeli startup By Rob Thubron , March 11, 2019, 7:02 AM
Science The Square Kilometer Array telescope is ten times bigger than any other in existence Pushing petabits every second to supercomputers By Greg Synek , February 26, 2019, 9:50 AM
Industry Data centers are using two percent of the world's energy Demand is only going to grow By Greg Synek , November 20, 2018, 9:20 AM
Industry Hardware AMD launches Zen 2 for the datacenter: world's first x86 CPU built on 7nm Double the cores, higher IPC, more power savings By Paul Taylor , November 6, 2018, 2:31 PM 27 comments
Industry Opinion: Oracle wants to make a case as cloud computing provider Oracle's take on the cloud from the first day of the OpenWorld event in San Francisco By Bob O'Donnell , October 23, 2018, 11:07 AM
Industry The Web Wikileaks dumps Amazon data center locations for all to see AWS holds a lot of government data shrouded by secrecy By Greg Synek , October 12, 2018, 9:20 AM 10 comments
Hardware Intel Stratix 10 programmable acceleration card offers enormous bandwidth and simplifies development Hardware acceleration usable by non-engineers By Greg Synek , September 25, 2018, 9:02 AM
Industry Hardware Former Intel president's startup launches new processors to compete in data centers Intel may be beaten to 7nm by ex-president By Greg Synek , September 18, 2018, 9:31 AM
Industry Amazon is one of the largest consumers of electricity but is offloading costs onto others Amazon claims electricity discounts are trade secrets By Greg Synek , August 20, 2018, 8:49 AM 8 comments
Hardware Industry Intel shows off Xeon roadmap through 2020, pushes 10nm further back Xeon "AI-infused" chips to debut this year, but 10nm only in 2020 By Paul Taylor , August 9, 2018, 11:23 AM
Microsoft Microsoft submerges a data center off the coast of Scotland True confidence in reliability since no physical access is possible By Greg Synek , June 6, 2018, 8:40 AM 23 comments
Apple Industry Apple cancels plans for $1 billion data center in Ireland after long delays Three years is longer than Cupertino is willing to wait By Greg Synek , May 10, 2018, 12:21 PM
Microsoft Industry Microsoft doubles down on wind energy to power data centers A second large wind project in Europe for Microsoft By Greg Synek , November 2, 2017, 11:44 AM
Industry Opinion: Will the future of computing emerge from the fog? Even with all kinds of interesting efforts, we aren't going to see traditional cloud, network, data center, or common endpoints going away By Bob O'Donnell , October 31, 2017, 12:12 PM
Hardware Large-capacity hard drives are holding up well in data centers More usage time is needed to draw any solid conclusions, however By Shawn Knight , October 26, 2017, 2:14 PM
Science Scientists make major breakthrough in molecular data storage Scientific breakthrough could lower the cost of data storage By Shawn Knight , August 25, 2017, 4:45 PM
Apple Apple to build data center in Iowa with completely renewable energy iMessage, Siri, Apple Music, and more to receive assistance from new data center By Greg Synek , August 25, 2017, 10:30 AM
Apple Apple to build its first data center in China to comply with local law The company promises no backdoors will be created into any of their systems By Jose Vilches , July 12, 2017, 10:15 AM
Hardware AMD launches 32-core Epyc processor, looking to disrupt Intel's data center dominance Watch out Intel, AMD is launching some Epyc new processors By William Gayde , June 20, 2017, 10:00 PM 30 comments
Tech Culture Industry Homeowners in the Netherlands will soon be able to heat their showers with servers Wait ... What? By Cal Jeffrey , June 2, 2017, 2:45 PM 13 comments
Industry The Web Amazon, Microsoft, and Google want to own the Cloud Or at least a large part of it By Cal Jeffrey , April 10, 2017, 3:30 PM
Hardware Industry Intel's future technologies will arrive in server chips before PC CPUs Data centers are bigger money makers for Intel By Rob Thubron , February 13, 2017, 6:15 AM
Tech Deals Pursue a career in data center management with this 4-course collection By TechSpot Deals , January 4, 2017, 4:00 PM
Hardware Industry HP Enterprise shows off prototype of new computing architecture called "The Machine" It's 8000 times faster than your home computer By William Gayde , December 6, 2016, 8:15 AM 12 comments