Hardware

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...

Rittal, one of the world’s largest suppliers of data center racks, has joined the Open19 Foundation, a new non-profit governing a data center standard created by LinkedIn, now a Microsoft subsidiary...

The next version of Windows Server will let you run Linux containers using Hyper-V isolation (and connect to them with bash scripts), encrypt network segments on software-defined networks and deploy the Host Guardian Service as a Shielded VM...

Its licensing framework is one of the key differences between LinkedIn’s data center tech foundation and OCP.

Startups, universities, government labs, and companies like IBM are racing to build computers that could potentially solve some problems that are now intractable.