It’s tempting to think of cloud computing as an abstraction, defined by all the things it isn’t. It isn’t your desktop or laptop. It isn’t the IT closet at your office. It’s […]
Ashburn: A Landscape Transformed by Cloud Computing
Schneider reveals Uptime Institute-ready pre-fab data centres
Using the strong growth in prefabricated modular data centres to justify its investment, Schneider Electric has unveiled an expanded power portfolio and Uptime Institute TIER-Ready designs. Tweeted by @lknoxie https://twitter.com/lknoxie/status/1061016146726531073 Read the […]
Have we reached the sustainability ‘tipping point’ for data centers?
Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is likely to surpass 3 degrees centigrade this century. Frankly, it’s about time that a company’s data management became a part of that broader climate […]
Are you seeing what I’m seeing?
Enterprises are investing in their networks at an accelerating rate. As legacy IT on-premises infrastructure gives way to hybrid cloud and virtualized environments, and an escalating data tsunami drives data center expansions, […]
Data Center Breaks Speed Limits With AI Accelerator Cards
Xilinx claims its Alveo artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator cards are designed to dramatically increase performance in industry-standard servers across cloud and on-premise data centers. The cards reportedly enable breakthrough performance improvement at […]
From Dirt to Cloud: How a Data Center is Created
t’s known as a “greenfield” data center. But it all starts with dirt. In this case, it begins with a 24-acre land parcel in Ashburn, Virginia in the world’s busiest concentration of […]
Data Center Network Transformation Sign 2: Core & Pod Design
The 2nd concrete sign of DC network transformation is deployment topology that leverages core & pod design principles. A pod is a self-contained unit of compute, network and storage; in our context, […]
Webinar: The balancing act in IT: 3 insights IT organizations need today
Maintaining the status quo or building the new world? This is the balancing act IT leaders are facing in their organizations. Join Data Center Knowledge and Flexential experts as we discuss a […]
Why the Cloud Is Better for Disaster Recovery
Too often, organizations embark on grand initiatives without defining what success will look like. DR is no different, but fortunately it can be gauged according to two metrics: The recovery-time objective (RTO): […]
The one percent Edge
The edge is important, but it’s also being overhyped. Network-edge computing will only ever be a small slice of the overall cloud and computing domain. And because it’s small, it will likely […]
