Italian energy explorer Eni's new system outside of Milan will scan for oil and gas reservoirs deep below the surface over thousands of miles. HPC4 is the only non-governmental and non-institutional computer on the Top 500 list.

DCK Investor Edge: At an investor conference, the newly public company’s execs indicated they weren’t after large, low-margin leases with hyper-scale companies, preferring higher-margin retail colocation business, where the company can leverage...

The company says the deal will bolster its portfolio of large air handling solutions for free cooling for its data center customers, in addition to airports, hospitals, universities, and other critical commercial segments.

The company that resulted from Peak 10's $1.7 billion acquisition of ViaWest has adopted a new go-to-market strategy, placing focus on interconnection and serving edge data center needs in secondary markets.

The company announced a 10MW facility in Buenos Aires with support from the government and a group of telco partners that serve the region. Cloud providers are increasingly targeting South America for data center expansion.

Currie, one of the cables, will be funded and owned in its entirety by Google. It will link the US and Chile. Another will be funded jointly with Facebook and others and link US to Europe. The third will land in Hong Kong and Guam.

Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Uber signed the largest turn-key wholesale data center leases last year, according to the latest report by North American Data Centers. Leasing by the hyper-scale cloud platforms overall slowed down year on...

The lender has applied for or received at least 43 patents for the ledger technology used for verifying and recording transactions that’s at the heart of virtual currencies. It is the largest number among major banks and technology companies...

The solution, called Retpoline, was created by Google software engineer Paul Turner to mitigate the Spectre vulnerability without a loss to performance.

Intel cautioned against going too far with software techniques to fix the vulnerabilities, implying slowdowns might be the fault of overzealous coders. It praised Google’s fix while withholding any recommendation for Microsoft’s approach.