Tag: data center

Five Ways AMD’s ZT Systems Acquisition May Enhance AI Sustainability
AMD's recent acquisition of ZT Systems for $1.9 billion opens new doors for enhancing sustainability in the data center and AI markets. Here's how this strategic move could advance AMD's environmental goals, along with ...

Data Management: Cloud Technology or Data Centers?
Cloud technology and data center services help business leaders with data management. But which is right for you? ...

Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder ...

Linux Tweak Brings Big Speedup ¦ DCs in SPAAACE (Redux) ¦ Atlassian Fires 500
In this week’s #TheLongView: Intel optimizes Linux multithreaded networking, data centers in space (again), and more DevOps layoffs ...

Voice.ai ‘Stole’ Code ¦ AWS Gets Filthier
In this week’s #TheLongView: Alleged theft of GPL code, and Amazon will run its data centers on gas ...

Energy Efficiency and the Data Center
The IT industry has historically been a leader in the ongoing race to reduce CO2 emissions. Reducing emissions is good for the environment and for the corporate bottom line. The data center ...

Are You Wasting Money in the Cloud?
I’m not the first person to point out the issues with Andreessen Horowitz’s blog post outlining why Dropbox is repatriating from the public cloud to data centers and saving an enormous amount ...

Using Chaos Engineering to Build Resilient Systems
Over the past decade, chaos engineering has become one of the most popular approaches in DevOps. It’s uniquely adapted to complex cloud-based systems and has the potential to succeed where more conventional ...

‘Old Man Yells At Cloud’
These days, software programmers are increasingly estranged from hardware. Most millennials and Generation Z developers have never had to mount physical servers. They have never been lulled by the gentle hum of ...

Earth Day: The Green Side of Computing
When we think of climate change and the existential threat of global warming, our minds often conjure images of dirty factories pumping out carbon dioxide or fuel-guzzling cars sitting idle with their ...

Equinix Adds Automated Bare-Metal Server Service
Equinix, a provider of hosted IT services, added an Equinix Metal offering that allows IT teams to automate the deployment of bare-metal servers. Interest in deploying bare-metal servers is increasing due to ...

The Increased Role of Colocation Providers in Data Centers
You would be hard-pressed to find something more complex than a modern data center. A state-of-the-art building stocked with all the necessary software for a major company might run into billions in ...