Coping with Higher Hyperscale Rack-Power Density
According to the Cisco Global Cloud Index 2015-2020/Synergy Research, by 2020, 47 percent of all servers sold are expected to go to hyperscalers, which deploy distributed computing environments ranging ...Full Article
Tabor Communications Announces Rebranding of EnterpriseTech: EnterpriseAI
Tabor Communications, publisher of high performance technology publications HPCwire, Datanami and EnterpriseTech, has announced that EnterpriseTech has been re-branded as EnterpriseAI. The new name reflects the publication’s increased focus ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Nearing Green Energy Goal
Hyperscale datacenter operators continue to strive for energy efficiency as most struggle to keep pace with more demanding workloads. Progress is being reported on at least one front: Facebook ...Full Article
Microsoft Launches Submersible Datacenter
The hotspots and energy hogs that are enterprise datacenters are increasingly located in northern climes. As demand for cooling intensifies, and datacenter power usage maxes out, some have even ...Full Article
From Iceland, HPC-as-a-Service Finds Toehold in FinServ, Automotive, Scientific R&D
While high-demand workloads (e.g., bitcoin mining) can overheat data center cooling capabilities, at least one data center infrastructure provider has announced an HPC-as-a-service offering that features 100 percent free ...Full Article
Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a ...Full Article
Sweden Scales Datacenter Heat Recycling
A Swedish data park seeking to attract major datacenter operators is upgrading a five-year-old effort to recover and distribute heat generated by datacenters to a local energy company. Stockholm ...Full Article
Sweden Cuts Tax on Datacenter Power
As the data continues to pile up, so too does the stiffening competition to store and manage it. The latest gambit comes from energy-efficient Sweden, where the Scandinavian nation's ...Full Article
Wind Will Power New Facebook Datacenter
Facebook announced this week its fifth datacenter under construction in Fort Worth, Texas, would be powered by renewable energy sources, including wind. The social media giant said the new ...Full Article
Asset Disposal: Old Computers Bring New Security Worries
In an age where organizations are consolidating datacenters, embracing cloud, and data infiltrates everything via the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises increasingly must consider how to securely, legally, and ...Full Article
