Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. He's written for a variety of publications, ranging from Tom's Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal, and has been on staff at IT publications like InternetNews, PC Week and InformationWeek.
Switch will power its giant data centers with massive amounts of solar energy and use Tesla Megapacks to store it.
Both are designed to span multiple clouds and bring faster, secure connectivity.
Omdia survey of North American enterprises finds that on-premises data centers will thrive and IT pros will seek faster switches.
Graphcore is putting its new AI processor, the Colossus MK2 IPU, up against Nvidia's Ampere A100 GPU.
Rather than using a hard disk form, Kioxia's EDSFF SSD uses new designs for chip placement and cooling efficiency.
New AT&T SD-WAN links on-premises and cloud networks and provides single-pane security monitoring.
If your business needs IP addresses for new servers or IoT devices, there is a marketplace for all the addresses you need.
The company’s new array combines its software-defined storage technology with Intel servers, Optane and QLC flash storage technologies.
An all-flash NVMeoF system from Western Digital is designed to replace SATA and SAS for high-performance applications in the enterprise.
New chip will be socket-compatible with the 80-core Ampere CPU now on the market.
The AWS Snow family of secure edge-computing and data-transfer devices gains its smallest member: the 4.5-pound Snowcone.
Aimed at HPC and AI, the chips come with new instructions and high-speed interconnects well beyond the previous generation.
CPU-level security capabilities in new Intel chips are designed to thwart in-memory attacks.
Q1 saw hyperscalers turning to colocation providers for extra capacity at the edge, while enterprises spent less on data-center hardware and software.
Designed with the GPU and virtualization in mind, new Dell servers are meant for quick deployment of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing systems.
Following several acquisitions, Rackspapce prepares for an IPO and to tackle lifecycle management.
Nautilus Data Technologies brings the experience of cooling nuclear power plants to cooling data center floating on barges in bodies of water.
Companies that specialized in corporate consulting services are being hit as clients move from on-prem to the cloud.
Fujitsu has delivered all the components needed for a supercomputer in Japan that is expected to break the exaFLOP barrier when it comes online next year, and that delivery means that the same class of hardware will be available soon for enterprise c....
Dell EMC's Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud promise to move 50 petabytes between corporate data centers and Google Cloud at very high speed for computational jobs.
Two announcements from Lenovo reflect a push into the lucrative high-performance computing market.
By melding their products together, Schneider Electric and Aveva offer multi-site data-center operations management.
With an almost flawless failure rate despite constant use, mechanical drives still have a place in computing.
Nvidia used to design chips for gamers but with its latest hardware has now fully become an HPC and AI developer.
As hyperscale service providers overhaul their data center gear with the latest technology, they're selling off their old equipment, which is likely more powerful than most enterprises use today.
Long known just as a purveyor of cloud backup, Backblaze is taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Google with much lower pricing.
The VPN market was forecast to grow, even before COVID-19 caused VPN use to skyrocket.
Storage remains a popular on-premises technology and Dell and Pure have significant new products for customer needs.
Companies are putting more compute into less data-center space and shifting some workloads away from the cloud.
In a first, the former Toshiba group introduces software-managed flash drives, something HDDs could never do.
Cisco, Dell, HPE, and Nutanix craft payment deferrals, lower initial payments, and trade-in deals as short-term sweeteners for businesses that need new gear but whose budgets are pinched by COVID-19.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E990 delivers enterprise features including high ratio deduplication and AI management.
Recruiting site Glassdoor says the month from early March to early April was as bad for IT jobs as the first nine months of the Great Recession.
With new EPYC 7Fx2 processors, AMD claims to offer the fastest per-core performance in the server space.
The specification for 800GbE doubles the maximum speed of the current Ethernet standard, but also tweaks other aspects including latency.
Memory was becoming the drag on performance in the many-core era, so DDR5 plans to address that.
Schneider Electric's Uniflair brings air conditioning to places where traditional data-center cooling is not possible.
New server hardware from Lenovo processes data at the edge instead of sending it upstream to a data center.
The Japanese electronics giant is making bold performance claims about its supercomputer processor.
Folding@home has done what IT vendors and the federal government have been racing to do – break the exaFLOP barrier – and the crowdsourced distributed-computing program did it while fighting coronavirus.
You don’t need to downsize your data center, you need to expand it, according to a Forbes Insights survey
Dell has some suggestions on how to disinfect sensitive electronics
New design clobbers Intel and AMD in core and thread count, but the proof will be in the independent benchmarks.
New Intel Xeon processors with technology for AI training will only come on four- and eight-socket servers. Single and dual-socket versions of Cooper Lake CPUs have been canceled.
IT giant targets telco hardware makers with deployable pure 5G networks and Wi-Fi integration.
Mellanox delivers fast new switches, while Inphi focuses on high-speed interconnects for massive data movement.
Data centers account for roughly 1% of electricity consumption worldwide, according to a new study. While computing capacity has exploded in recent years, power consumption is growing more slowly thanks to greater energy efficiency.
Alveo U25 SmartNIC is designed to offload network processing tasks such as SDN, AI and NVMe over Fabrics, leaving the CPU to focus on processing data.
Data gathered by security provider Zscaler shows that not only are most internet-of-things transactions unsecured, they are also unauthorized as IoT creeps in as shadow-IT devices.
Intel has ambitious plans to grab the 5G base station marketplace, which is still in its infancy.
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