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.
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.
Major server vendors aren't talking, but IDC says that short-term, supplies of a variety of IT devices will be short due to the coronavirus.
Using some very fancy physics for stacking electrons, Showa Denko K.K. plans to quadruple the top end of proposed capacity.
Big Blue is the latest to pare down multiple storage products under one umbrella, after HPE did it last summer.
Demand isn’t tapering off, but China is grinding to a halt under the strain of the pandemic.
Under the new VMware licensing pricing model, one CPU license will cover up to 32 cores in a single CPU. If a CPU has more than 32 cores, additional CPU licenses will be required.
Enterprise server sales aren't typically strong in Q4, but Intel and AMD benefited from high demand for server, desktop and notebook processors as 2019 came to a close.
Intel is focusing its efforts around the newly acquired Habana product line and moving to a single hardware architecture and software stack for data center AI acceleration
Multiple senior-level departures are often a cause for alarm but in this case, we don’t know why they left.
Private equity firms accounted for 80% of all data-center acquisitions in 2019. Is that a good thing?
The PC side of Intel's Xeon processor supply remains constrained, but server customers should get their orders this year.
The company that once eschewed the enterprise now has a server version of the Mac Pro. Apple's rack-mountable Mac Pro starts at $6,499.
IBM’s high-performance RISC processors are now available to Google Cloud Platform users as a service.
After a down year in 2019, IT spending will pick up this year, led by enterprise software and the cloud, according to IT research firm Gartner, including an uptick for data center spending that had takend a dip.
The National Security Agency warns the Windows vulnerability allows attackers to evade protections and deliver executable code while appearing as legitimate entities.
Microsoft recommends migrating Server 2008 workloads to Azure cloud services while enterprises modernize their apps for Windows Server 2016 or 2019 deployments.
Archive will focus on long-term data retention and compete against AWS Glacier, Microsoft Cool Blob Storage, and IBM Cloud Storage.
More than half of servers are sold to hyperscale data-center operators such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook.
The deal between HPE and Cumulus Networks is designed to address the increased network and storage demands of techs like AI, IoT.
SSD drives could become very expensive this year if one projection is accurate.
Bamboo Systems, formerly Kaleao, claims its motherboard architecture is more power efficient than traditional designs that cater to x86 processors.