AMD is betting big on ARM chips in the data center because the demands of client computing have changed the way computing and data centers are built and designed.
The modern data center is being asked to do a lot more for the ever-evolving business organization. New technologies around cloud computing, big data and IT consumerization have placed the data center environment in the spotlight. With these growing trends and more demands from companies trying to moving to the cloud, data centers are looking for ways to optimize efficiency.
The data center incentive arms race continues, as legislators in existing industry hubs are adopting beefed-up incentives. The latest state to pass enhanced incentives is Arizona.
At the recently concluded Copenhagen Summit on climate change and energy conservation, great stress was laid on reducing the carbon footprint of all nations, with special emphasis on developing nations like India.
Chipmaker AMD announced a strategy and roadmap Tuesday, aimed at enterprise and data center servers. including a 64-bit ARM SoC in 2014.
t’s true that cloud computing technology’s main appeal is the benefits it provides with regard to being cost effective and their ability to reduce a company’s environmental footprint, especially when compared to conventional data center farms. However, many industry experts are still wondering how to quantify these benefits and provide a more accurate, or at least consistent readings of the cloud’s impact and benefits.
The modern data center is a part of the “on-demand” generation where data, applications, and workloads need to be constantly available. Part of this drive has been the technologies around cloud computing, a lot more data center need, and of course – virtualization. This new generation of virtual computing and storage resources dictate that SPs need more than a pair of (active and backup) data centers — and typically require many data centers to support their enterprise customer base.
An IDC study shows why coprocessors are gain ground in the HPC market so fast, and Cray, Supermicro and Cirrascale show support for the new Intel Xeon Phi products.
Data center developer DuPont Fabros Technology has made changes to its revolving credit facility that provide additional funding to support another major construction project.
AMD is pinning its hopes for competing with Intel in the server market on the expected growth in popularity of server chips based on designs from British company ARM, the chip maker said on Monday. The company’s first ARM-based server chip, code-named “Seattle”, will begin shipping in volume in the second half of 2014, marking a departure for the chip maker, which has used the same x86 instructions as Intel since the 1980s.
Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) has an experienced team and a penchant for thinking outside the box on data center location, and is looking for tenant-driven data center opportunities in markets that can have a huge upside down the road.
A look at one of the modular data halls at the Verne Global data center in ICelan.d Datapipe is expanding its presence at Verne with a new HPC cloud installation. (Photo: Colt). Managed hosting provider Datapipe has launched a very green cloud node in
The new Top500 list is out. Many of the world's Top 10 supercomputers are striking not just for their processing power, but for their design and appearance as well. For a look at the top finishers in the latest list, see our photo feature, The Top 10 Supercomputers, Illustrated.
June 17, 2013 -- Web hosting and cloud hosting provider Datapipe announced on Monday it is now offering its Stratosphere high performance computing green cloud platform from Verne Global's data center campus in Iceland. Keep on reading: Datapipe Delivers Green HPC Cloud from Verne Global Data Center in Iceland
The Week in Review: More infrastructure for Facebook, Google and Telx; storm-proofing data centers for hurricanes and tornadoes, and a pause in the REIT conversion stampede while the IRS ponders whether data centers are real estate.
It's been a busy week for data center news, so we're playing catchup on Friday afternoon with Mega Roundup. Here's news from Sentinel Data Centers, Earthlink, DataChambers, Internap, Stream Data Centers, CyrusOne and Cobalt Data Centers.
Cray announces a new Hadoop solution, providing an enterprise-strength approach to Big Data analytics to high-value Hadoop applications.
Facebook has opened its first data centre outside the United States with a green facility in Sweden
Cogeco Data Services unveiled its new 60,000-square-foot facility in Barrie, Thursday.
Construction and engineering company Cupertino Electric has acquired data center design and commissioning consulting firm California Data Center Design Group (CDCDG), the companies announced today.
The social network's first data center in Europe runs on hydropower. What does Greenpeace say?
On Facebook's Lulea page you can see 25 photos of its data center. Here is video too.
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Facebook opened a new data center on Wednesday in Luleå, Sweden, a place that offers plenty of water and a cool climate as the social network seeks to lower its costs and improve its environmental friendliness. The new data center is Facebook’s first in Europe, and is located about 600 miles north of Stockholm at the edge of Arctic Circle . It ...
Containers work if you want to have a unit of deployment with up to 2,000 servers. Google used containers early on, but doesn't use them anymore. Some of the biggest use of Containers is by Microsoft's data center group. DCD covers Microsoft discussing how containers contain outages.