Intel (INTC) and Samsung announced new Solid State Drive (SSD) products recently to address the growing needs of cloud applications and big data demands.
The modern data center is built around efficiencies. Whether its power, cooling, or space – the administrator must utilize the resources with the utmost care. More organizations are demanding the increase of density within their server...
The importance of diesel backup generators in the post-Sandy economy is hard to overstate. In the wake of the storm, diesel is the lifeblood of the New York-area data center industry and much of lower Manhattan, where generators are currently...
Headlines from the networking sector: EdgeCast enhances global CDN, Infinera (INFN) selected by Cyprus Telecommunications, Ciena (CIEN) selected by FiberLight.
Riverbed (RVBD) announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OPNET (OPNT) for $43 per share in cash and stock, or about $1 billion .
As we look ahead to the upcoming year, some key technology areas are going to shift. There has been new innovations and advancements around some older ones. Although not an all-encompassing list– this is a good breakdown of where the IT community...
Jaguar has become Titan, and it's packing 20 petaflops of computing power. The 200-cabinet Cray supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which as Jaguar once ruled the Top 500, has been overhauled with faster hardware and networking...
There have been a number of data center projects hoping to tap power from tidal energy or surface waves, but none have advanced very far. Now a leading player in data center power is participating in a promising project to make ocean power a...
In a white paper released this week, The Green Grid makes the case that servers are indeed tougher than widely believed, and counsels data center operators to consider raising temperatures and humidity just a little more to save on cooling.
