With so much attention on protecting against cyber risks, we sometimes forget about the other side of the coin: the risk that data will be physically removed from the building. There are […]
From an infrastructure perspective, a data center’s ability to scale, as and when needed and to changing customer, business and application needs, is critical. This flexibility will support future bandwidth and transmission […]
After tweeting satellite images of data centers for a week, controversial document-leaking website WikiLeaks has published an internal list of all the facilities owned by Amazon Web Services in 2015, along with […]
Work is underway on a 750,000 square foot data center in Henderson, near Las Vegas, Nevada.The true identity of the company behind the facility is not known; it is operating under the […]
With the 100G optics reaching technology and cost maturity, and going full speed for deployment in data centers, the industry is looking at 400G with hyperscale data centers being the main drivers. […]
In recent years, computing workloads have been migrating: first from on-premises data centres to the cloud and now, increasingly, from cloud data centres to ‘edge’ locations where they are nearer the source […]
On any given day data center managers go through their mental checklists. Security, invariably, makes it to the top of the list. Security is all about layers of protection, and most data […]
Whether you’re considering moving your data center, offloading some of your applications to the cloud or completing an upgrade in your current data center, it is paramount to understand crucial components of […]
For the best efficiency and performance in a data center, the goal is to have voltage and current waveforms primarily consisting of the fundamental frequency, with minimal higher-order frequencies. Most utilities provide […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $60 million to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin to deploy a new high performance computing (HPC) system. […]
