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Thursday, 9th May 2013

Facebook's Open Compute Project Expands To Networking

Facebook's Open Compute Project Expands To Networking

New push into open source networking could be a threat to Cisco.

Enterprise ReadWrite Editors comments

Thursday, 2nd May 2013

Where In The World Will Your Next Data Center Go?

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 a map.

Enterprise Ryan Murphey comments

Tuesday, 23rd April 2013

Facebook To Build Huge New Data Center In Iowa - Here's Why

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.

Cloud Mark Hachman comments

Monday, 11th March 2013

New eBay Metrics Could Help Save Millions in Data Center Costs

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. Now it wants to share those results.

Enterprise Michael Kanellos comments

Thursday, 20th December 2012

The Death March Of The Traditional Data Center Begins In 2013

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, replaced by Big Data software solutions and lower-cost, ARM-based systems-on-chips.

Enterprise Brian Proffitt comments

Tuesday, 11th December 2012

IBM: Nanophotonics Will Smash Data Center Bottlenecks

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 pace with the growing information flowing through data centers.

Enterprise Antone Gonsalves comments

Wednesday, 5th December 2012

How Green Is The Cloud? Cutting Through The Emissions BS

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 than the greenwashing hype would lead you to believe.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

Friday, 30th November 2012

Oracle Has Problems Telling The Truth In Its Advertising

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.

Enterprise Antone Gonsalves comments

Tuesday, 27th November 2012

Phoning An Aircraft Engine In Mid-Flight? No Problem

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 operations center to find out.

Enterprise Mark Hachman comments

Thursday, 1st November 2012

ARM vs. Intel: Servers The Size Of A Smartphone?

ARM vs. Intel: Servers The Size Of A Smartphone?

A new industry consortium launched today will put Intel on notice: its hold on processors for servers is about to be challenged by ARM, the processor family that has exploded on tablets and smartphones in the past few years. The Linaro Enterprise Group bands together some major players in ARM space, working together to try to unify the fragmented ARM processors enough to prep them for a new breed of servers that should drastically reduce the size and energy consumption of current datacenters.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

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