Peek Into AMD’s New Atlanta Glass House
Like many enterprises these days, chip maker AMD is looking to consolidate its myriad datacenters and smaller data closets to save operating expenses and to drive up the utilization ...Full Article
Facebook Uses Ikea Modular Approach In Second Swedish Datacenter
Facebook announced it will be using new lean manufacturing concepts, developed as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), for the construction of a second building at its existing ...Full Article
Dell Forges Custom G5 Racks For Hyperscale Shops
As funny as it sounds, the standard computing rack is a problem in the datacenter. The physical layout of datacenters is pegged to the dimensions, weight, power draw, and ...Full Article
Chilly UK Weather Cools Latest Rackspace Datacenter
Rackspace recently broke ground on a 130,000 square foot, 10 megawatt datacenter, in the West Sussex region of England, south of London. The US-based cloud and hosting provider together ...Full Article
Dell Takes A Long View On Datacenters
One of the things that Dell committed to do once it went private was to invest more in research and development. Last summer, while the privatization effort was still ...Full Article
Scaling Renewable Energy In The Datacenter
Why does being green in the datacenter matter? That is the question that the people responsible for the electric bills at the massive datacenters run by Microsoft, Facebook, and ...Full Article
Could ‘Power Attacks’ Be Threatening Your Datacenter?
If hackers want to knock out server infrastructure, they might not need to target the machines with malware to corrupt their software stack. They might just use malware to ...Full Article
Intel Uses Moore’s Law And Virtualization To Shrink Its Datacenters
Chip maker Intel operates one of the largest clusters in the world to push Moore’s Law along with its electronic design automation systems, as EnterpriseTech has previously revealed. But ...Full Article
3M and Allied Control Cool Clusters with Novec Bubble Bath
One of the more interesting demonstrations at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week in Denver was a Xeon E5 server dunked in a tank of Novec fire suppressant fluid. ...Full Article
Facebook, Google Tout Renewable Energy Projects
Big computing takes big energy. Two of the biggest computing entities on the planet, Facebook and Google, have revealed details of new renewable energy projects that they are involved ...Full Article
