U.S. Datacenter Upgrades Plagued by Security Concerns
As the federal bureaucracy stumbles toward datacenter modernization primarily via consolidation and a shift to the cloud, more than two-thirds of U.S. IT operators said in a survey they ...Full Article
Study Probes Ways to Avoid Datacenter Outages
As recent outages at Verizon Cloud and Facebook illustrate, datacenter operators can catch plenty of flack when their infrastructure goes off-line—for a few hours or a weekend. A cottage ...Full Article
Datacenter Investments Focus on Racks, Enclosures
Overall datacenter infrastructure growth has slowed over the last several years as a result of datacenter consolidation, global economic weakness and IT equipment improvements. Among those upgrades is a ...Full Article
AWS Datacenter Drawing Protests
A new datacenter planned for the Washington, DC, suburbs is drawing the ire of local residents, largely because of the amount of electricity it would draw from proposed high-voltage ...Full Article
Intel Reports Record Revenues on Cloud Burst
Intel said its datacenter business expanded during 2014 as the chip giant topped analysts' earnings and revenue forecasts. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said Intel's annual revenues grew 6 percent ...Full Article
Big Data Benchmark Test Results Unveiled
Initial benchmark results of for big data systems have been released in hopes of providing "verifiable performance, price-performance and availability metrics" for big data hardware and software, according to ...Full Article
Federal IT Reform Bill Headed For Passage
Legislation that would speed consolidation the federal government's more than 9,600 datacenters while centralizing the authority of agency chief information officers is expected to be approved by Congress this ...Full Article
Steel Mill Transformed Into Juiced Datacenter
A former steel mill outside of Philadelphia that is connected to more than 2 gigawatts of electricity has been converted into a datacenter and is opening up its doors ...Full Article
Euroserver Project Targets Green Datacenters
A European "green computing" effort is taking a new approach to datacenter scaling while attempting to rein in IT equipment density and energy consumption. The Euroserver project that includes ...Full Article
Cloud Services Reshaping Datacenter Build Outs
As global datacenter construction peaks over the next several years, "mega datacenters" are emerging as the primary server location for colocation and cloud service providers, a new industry survey ...Full Article
