Chipmaker AMD announced a strategy and roadmap Tuesday, aimed at enterprise and data center servers. including a 64-bit ARM SoC in 2014.
It can be really hard to get the media to publish complex concepts which is why companies will submit their own articles. Google's Luiz Barroso and Jeff Dean have an article on Google's Data Center challenge to provide low latency performance at scale.
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.
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.
AMD has released its new server roadmap, which includes its first ARM-based chip aimed at the data center. This is big for AMD and an evolution of the data center.
Facebook has opened its first data centre outside the United States with a green facility in Sweden
Someone asked me how big a Google Cluster can be? I found the answer in a Google Research paper on flash storage top of page 8. Don't know if the number really helps the person who asked, but figured it couldn't hurt to point at the paper.
The social network's first data center in Europe runs on hydropower. What does Greenpeace say?
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.
Facebook has claimed that its new data centre, which has now gone live on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is likely to be one of the most efficient and sustainable in the world.
Facebook says its new data center in Lulea, Sweden is the most efficient and sustainable. For a closer look, check out our photo feature, Inside Facebook's Lulea Data Center.
With lots of water and the cool Nordic climate, Facebook is lowering its cost to operate a data center and improving its environmental friendliness. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media
One of the conversations I have had with data center friends is when will Facebook bring its Lulea data center online. The project was publicly announced in Oct 2011. There was Swedish papers covering the commissioning process in May 2013.
Facebook has gone live in Lulea. The company's huge new data center in Sweden is now handling traffic from around the world, marking the first expansion of Facebook's infrastructure beyond the Untied States.
June 12, 2013 -- While cloud providers have long touted the cost savings of using cloud services to customers, new research shows that US businesses who switch to the cloud actually help save a significant amount of energy as well.Keep on reading: Cloud Apps Offer Significant Energy Savings: Researchers
When I was at the first Open Compute Summit I was sitting with a data center executive and when he heard about the air misters used in Facebook's 1st data center he said they were going to run into problems. We don't hear about misters in Facebook's data center any more and news has leaked out what may have helped convince putting humidity into the data center has issues. The Register broke the news in an interview with Facebook VP Jay Parikh. Facebook's first data center ran into problems of a distinctly ironic nature when a literal cloud formed in the IT room and started to rain on servers. Though Facebook has previously hinted at this via references to a "humidity event" within its first data center in Prineville, Oregon, the social network's infrastructure king Jay Parikh told The Reg on Thursday that, for a ...
June 11, 2013 -- Server maker Calxeda announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Intank to optimize Ceph’s performance on the Calxeda server architecture.Keep on reading: Calxeda, Inktank Deliver Ceph Storage Optimized for ARM-Based Servers
June 11, 2013 -- Data center developer Server Farm Realty announced on Tuesday it has opened its new 450,000 square foot data center in Chicago. Keep on reading: Server Farm Realty Opens Massive Data Center in Chicago
Sometimes a typo can get you to laugh. I was reading DCK Rich Miller's post on the Google How Green is Internet? Event. And I saw that there are 30,000 servers connected to the Internet. Jon Koomey,a research fellow at Stanford University, says there are at least 1.6 billion devices connected to the Internet, including approximately 30,000 servers. (Photo: Rich Miller) Rich Miller's reporting is so impeccable it is funny to see an oops moment.
How Green is the Internet? That was the topic for a conference Thursday at Google, which looked at the efficiency gap between huge cloud data centers and in-house corporate data centers.
The modern data center is now home to the cloud, big data and numerous other globally distributed technologies. With more virtualization and high-density computing the energy efficiency of a data center has become a vital consideration. In fact, IDC reports
Trying to assess just how enormous Amazon Web Services is has become a sort of parlor game among techies. Counting servers is as good a way as any to get a grip on its size and the latest to take a stab at that is Netcraft, which pegs the numbers of AWS web-facing servers at 158,000, up from 118,000 such servers in September, 2012. (Hat tip to Data Center Knowledge for pointing out this interesting research.)
Google and wind farm developer O2, jointly announced that Google will be purchasing the entire electricity output of the new wind farm in northern Sweden to support the Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The 24 turbine project will have capacity of 72MW.