From chips to servers, Data Center Knowledge's hardware section covers the latest news, trends, and analysis on the components and systems used in data center infrastructure.
Data centers these days are busy replacing expensive hardware solutions with “software-defined” everything, but the trend is the opposite when it comes to security. While software still prevails in keeping servers secure, hardware is...
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that took supplies to the International Space Station last week had something new on board: the first commercial computers headed for space. Usually, computers for space missions are special-purpose hardware hardened...
Ian King (Bloomberg) — During California’s Gold Rush, it was often the sellers of pickaxes and shovels who made the most money. In the frenzy to get rich quick from cryptocurrencies, some investors are calling computer chipmakers the...
For a large enterprise, one of the costliest and most time-consuming steps in moving to the cloud is transferring the enormous amount of data stored in its on-premises data centers to its cloud provider’s data centers. Network bandwidth is a...
Oops! There’s been a snafu in the Cisco supply chain that’s resulted in UCS servers being shipped that could lose data under a power loss. The problem is with hard drives from Seagate with an incorrect setting. The drive maker has...
IBM’s latest z Series mainframe, unveiled today, has a novel security feature the company says users have long wanted but couldn’t get: the ability to easily encrypt all their data, at rest or in motion, with just one click...