Facebook's Open Compute Project Expands To Networking
New push into open source networking could be a threat to Cisco.
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Articles tagged "Data Centers"
Thu, 9 May 2013
Thu, 2 May 2013
Where In The World Will Your Next Data Center Go?
Some data centers may seem to be placed at random, but selecting a data center location is a little more strategic than throwing darts at…
Tue, 23 April 2013
Facebook To Build Huge New Data Center In Iowa - Here's Why
Believe it or not, there are good reasons for Facebook to build a massive new state-of-the-art data center in an Iowa field.
Mon, 11 March 2013
New eBay Metrics Could Help Save Millions in Data Center Costs
eBay's Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) dashboard leads to small software changes that saved the company $2 million in equipment costs…
Thu, 20 December 2012
The Death March Of The Traditional Data Center Begins In 2013
Beginning in 2013, traditional data centers will start losing their dominant status within the data management food chain…
Tue, 11 December 2012
IBM: Nanophotonics Will Smash Data Center Bottlenecks
Rather than use electricity to move data between processors, IBM is preparing to use light, giving high-end customers enough power to keep…
Wed, 5 December 2012
How Green Is The Cloud? Cutting Through The Emissions BS
While some cloud providers build great press about their energy consumption, the truth is carbon emissions can actually be much higher…
Fri, 30 November 2012
Oracle Has Problems Telling The Truth In Its Advertising
Since April, the tech giant has had to pull three ads that claimed Oracle computers performed much better than IBM's.
Tue, 27 November 2012
Phoning An Aircraft Engine In Mid-Flight? No Problem
Emirates Airlines can have 90 aircraft in flight at any given time. So what happens if something goes wrong? We go inside the company's…
Thu, 1 November 2012
ARM vs. Intel: Servers The Size Of A Smartphone?
It's not an Intel-based game in server-land, anymore.
Mon, 8 October 2012
ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: In-House Datacenters
A business' data is still its most important asset, but that doesn't mean it every company needs to spend millions of dollars building and…
Wed, 26 September 2012
Why The Tech Industry Isn’t As Green As It Says It Is
High-tech companies like to portray their industry as the greenest of industries - saving everything from paper to business travel. But tech…
Mon, 13 August 2012
How Chattanooga Transformed Itself into America's First Gig City
What can you do with a ubiquitous metropolitan gigabit Ethernet connection? Google has recently gotten lots of attention with the metro…
Thu, 19 July 2012
How to Host Your Data for Less in Iceland's Green Data Centers
Iceland's nascent data center industry, powered by cheap, renewable energy, could be a growth driver in that nation's economic recovery…
Wed, 18 July 2012
Iceland's Cheap, Green Cloud: How a Tiny Island Could Drive Big Changes
Iceland. A fascinating, strange place. And misunderstood. Did you know that the famous Blue Lagoon is actually a man-made pool filled…
Thu, 5 July 2012
Internet Outage Last Weekend Was Preventable
If ever there was a time that seemed to demonstrate the vulnerability of cloud computing, last weekend was certainly it. Mother Nature’s…
Thu, 21 June 2012
Red Hat’s Data Grid 6 Challenges Hadoop on Big Data
Red Hat’s addition of Data Grid 6 to its JBoss family of products cements the company’s position as a major datacenter player. The new…
Wed, 13 June 2012
Are IT Fears Holding Back Cloud Computing?
As corporate IT workers adapt to the shifts towards decentralized, cloud-computing services in place of in-house technology assets, they…
Mon, 9 January 2012
Forrester: As Growth Slows, Apple to Be More Influential than Cloud in 2012
A devastating assessment of the course of technology growth last Friday from technology analyst Forrester flies in the face of what…
Wed, 21 December 2011
How Green is Your Cloud?
Cloud computing, it is often claimed, is a good way for companies to reduce their carbon footprint. The reality, as Tom Raftery explains…
Infographic: The Ever-Expanding Data Center
Here's a prediction for 2012 you can bank on: the world's data centers are going to be busy, just like they were in 2011. Emerson Network…
Tue, 20 December 2011
BMC's Cloud Lifecycle Strategy: 'We're Not Into Element Plays'
You'd think it would be an easy thing to market an all-in-one concept of a "cloud-in-a-box" - a package that gives enterprises everything…
Mon, 19 December 2011
Alcatel-Lucent 10/40GbE Switch Throttles Up the "Carrier Cloud"
We've talked here before in ReadWriteWeb about the so-called "carrier cloud" concept being developed by Alcatel-Lucent. Think about the…
Mon, 12 December 2011
Hatsize Has Great Cloud Automation Buyer's Guide
We haven't written much about Hatsize.com, a cloud automation-testing outfit that has been around since 2000 and is based in Calgary…
