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.
The NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) architecture is closer to becoming a formal specification. It's expected improve storage network fabric communications and network performance.
Verizon's proposed software-defined interconnect service (SDI) will help the company's customers connect Equinix colocation data centers.
Companies are adopting technology for such things as AI, machine learning, edge computing and IoT, but still use legacy storage that can't handle those workloads.
Users of non-IBM storage systems can now use IBM's metadata management software, Spectrum Discover, for unstructured data.
AT&T's partnerships with IBM and Microsoft will enable the company to focus on network capabilities, such as 5G, edge computing, and software-defined networks.
MPLS, the legacy networking protocol, is still viable and there is no need to replace it in certain use cases, argues one cloud provider.
Tariffs on Chinese products and unstable of U.S./China relations cause server hardware makers to move production out of China.
Intel has unveiled a new packaging innovation for creating 3D chip packages and multiple chip connections, which is important for server processor technology.
Titan, a supercomputer deployed in 2012 at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is going into retirement, but the task of decommissioning it is not trivial.
Data storage software vendor Cloudian has teamed up with Seagate Technology to offer a private cloud storage platform aimed at artificial intelligence (AI) and network-edge workloads.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's new enterprise-class storage option, Primera, uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to deliver 100% reliability guaranteed.
On-premises and cloud connections are being built by all the top vendors to bridge legacy and modern systems, creating hybrid cloud environments.
New competitors threaten to take Intel’s dominance in the high-performance computing (HPC) world, and we’re not even talking about AMD (yet).
Once dismissive of software, Salesforce acknowledges the inevitability of the hybrid cloud.
Western Digital's Zoned Storage initiative uses new technology to create more efficient zettabyte-scale data storage for data centers by improving how data is organized when it is stored.
Oracle announced an update to its Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8 server line that includes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities, plus support for hybrid cloud.
Dell EMC and Cisco took another step in their alliance, announcing plans to expand VxBlock 1000 integration across servers, networking, storage, and data protection.
Artificial intelligence model training can generate five times more carbon dioxide than a car does in a lifetime, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst find.
Cut off from most western technology, Huawei might not be able to make a go outside of China, which could be trouble for western customers.
The data center is shouldering a greater burden than ever, despite promises of ease and the cloud, a new Uptime Institute report finds.
EGX platform goes to the edge to do as much processing there as possible before sending data upstream to major data centers.
In buying supercomputer vendor Cray, HPE has strengthened its high-performance-computing technology, but serious competitors remain.
Benchmarks of AMD's second-generation Epyc server, code-named “Rome,” briefly found their way online and show the chip is larger but a little slower than the Epyc 7601.
Atos takes a different approach to edge computing with a device called BullSequana Edge that's the size of a suitcase.
Critical vulnerability force Microsoft to patch versions of Windows Server and desktops that are long out of support.
Nutanix Mine essentially turns a Nutanix system into a backup appliance, putting primary and secondary storage in one place.
Supermicro was cleared of any activity related to the Chinese government and secret chips in its motherboards, but it is taking no chances and is moving its facilities.
Annualized failure rates of hard-disk drives (HDD) had fallen over the past few years, but Q1 2019 shows a slight increase, a new Backblaze report shows.
Server sales slowed in anticipation of the new Intel Xeon processors, but they are expected to start up again before the end of the year.
IT professionals have too many data sources to count, and they spend a huge amount of time wrestling that data into usable condition, a survey from Ivanti finds.
Dell EMC unveiled a high-end machine learning server for the data center that has four, eight, or even 10 Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs for processing power.
Dell EMC has an alliance with VMware to offer Dell EMC hardware on-premises without having to buy it outright.
Edge computing startup Vapor IO now offers a direct connection between its edge containers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) via a high-speed fiber network link.
Dell EMC and Cisco renewed their agreement to collaborate on converged infrastructure (CI) products for a few more years even though the momentum is elsewhere.
For once, the trends are in the favor of customers as IT equipment gets cheaper.
Intel's new U series of processors are aimed at the low-end market where one processor is good enough.
Fujitsu and Japanese research institute Riken announced the design for the post-K supercomputer, to be launched in 2021, is complete and that they will productize the design for sale later this year.
An Informa Engage and Data Center Knowledge survey finds data center workers are content with their jobs, so much so they would encourage their children to go into that line of work.
MemVerge software combines regular DRAM with Intel’s Optane DIMM persistent memory into a single clustered storage pool that doesn't require any changes to applications.
Google introduced new partnerships with Lenovo and Intel to help bolster its hybrid cloud offerings, both built on Google’s Kubernetes container technology.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has partnered with Nutanix to offer Nutanix’s hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software available as a managed private cloud service and on HPE-branded appliances.
Intel formally launched the Optane persistent memory product line, which includes 3D Xpoint memory technology. The solution is meant to sit between DRAM and NAND and to speed up performance.
Intel introduced more than 50 new Xeon Scalable Processors for servers that cover a variety of workloads.
Falling prices will increase use of SSDs in enterprise and data center applications, which is expected to further drive the adoption of PCI Express drives.
Microsoft has introduced Azure Stack HCI Solutions, a new implementation of its on-premises Azure product specifically for Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) hardware.
HPE's Right Mix Advisor is designed to find a balance between on-premises and cloud systems.
The company unveils GPU blades, AI software libraries and low-power GPUs.
One company sees an opportunity for the black art that is immersion cooling, while the other has a twist on regular liquid cooling.
Intel, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, HPE, Cisco, Dell-EMC, Huawei and Alibaba join forces to create Compute Express Link, a high-speed interconnect for chip-to-chip communication.