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.
LinkedIn offers to “open source” hardware designs it created to lower costs and speed up its data center deployment.
Hitachi Vantara launched a wide range of new hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) systems, software management, and automation tools at its Hitachi Next 2018 conference.
Intel revamps its strategy around the data center and delves into silicon photonics transceivers that target 5G wireless infrastructure and data centers.
A former Intel executive has launched a broadside attack against her former employer and created Ampere Computing, which develops ARM-based chips for the data center.
With new momentum and Intel reeling, AMD is targeting virtualization upgrades.
Hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Scale Computing and power management specialist APC have partnered to offer a range of turnkey micro data centers for the North American market.
Supermicro's all-SSD server is as thin as a pizza box, but its capacity is as high as 576TB and has throughput of up 20GB/sec and 10 million IOPS.
Edge computing vendor Vapor IO details how it will connect all of its computing containers using its Kinetic Edge Platform.
Cisco's new Unified Compute System (UCS) server covers each stage of the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) lifecycle.
The new release of OpenStack Rocky, the OpenStack Foundation's cloud platform, has enhanced support for bare-metal infrastructure.
GlobalFoundries will no longer make 7nm chips, a setback for AMD and a challenge for data centers' ability to scale.
Data center staff are getting older on average, and women show no interest in the job, according to a recent Uptime Institute survey.
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu shifts from the SPARC processor to an ARM processor in the supercomputer race.
Dell EMC's PowerEdge MX line was designed to support a wide variety of traditional and emerging data center workloads, such as AI.
Both firms will give away software that gave them a competitive edge, a reflection of changing times.
An Uptime Institute survey finds the power usage effectiveness of data centers is better than ever. However, power outages have increased significantly.
Intel made a series of processor and memory announcements aimed at the data center and artificial intelligence, including new Xeon chips and its Intel Optane DC persistent memory.
Chip-making giant TSMC will lose hundreds of millions of dollars for failing to patch its Windows 7 computers, which were infected by the WannaCry virus.
Intel quietly ended the life of the Xeon Phi processor line on July 23. Forthcoming Xeon chips have all the features of the Phi, no separate chip or add-in card needed.
Seagate is expanding its Nytro portfolio of SSD products for read-intensive workloads such as big data and AI, and it is updating its Seagate Secure data protection tool.
The purchase of Frame will help Nutanix expand its virtual desktop infrastructure and allow it to cover both ends of the network.
Oversupply and seasonal weakness combine for a potential big drop in prices on solid-state drives (SSD).
Nvidia has vaulted to the lead of the AI chip race with its GPUs. But Samsung looks to be making a move and could take some of its thunder.
The Kubernetes service included in Google's new Cloud Services Platform works on both on-premises servers and the in cloud, and you won't know the difference.
Lenovo's new product line is meant to simplify the deployment of internal cloud-designed systems.
Amazon Web Services has denied that it is targeting Cisco’s bread-and-butter network switching market. But like so many denials, there is wiggle room.
Amazon is rumored to be targeting the network switching business. The move would put it in direct competition with Cisco, HPE, Juniper Networks, and Arista.
Despite the rapid growth and adoption of the cloud, companies still need on-premises systems.
Baidu, which started as a search engine, now plays in a variety of AI fields thanks to a new chip and an alliance with Intel. Sounds a lot like Google, doesn't it.
Problems in the chip market are being made worse by trade disputes between the U.S. and China.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 is similar to the EU's GDPR. Companies that hold data on more than 50,000 people and do business in California must comply.
The Lustre file system, which is popular in high-performance computing, is finally in the hands of a company that makes sense: enterprise storage company DataDirect Networks.
With Rackspace’s Kubernetes-as-a-Service, customers can scale their Kubernetes environments at their own pace in nearly any data center in the world, including their own.
It could fairly be argued Intel CEO Brian Krzanich needed to go, and this scandal was actually a blessing.
Qualcomm is preparing to lay off almost 280 employees, most of which are in the data center group.
Lenovo's Neptune includes a mix of cooling technologies: direct-to-node liquid cooling, rear door heat exchangers, and hybrid cooling that mixes air and liquid.
Oracle's free internet "health" map allows enterprises to see where bottlenecks are to their public cloud connection and perhaps route traffic around them.
Cohesity says it has the solution to storage siloing headaches, and organizations are putting big money behind it.
Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems.
Rackspace announced a new data center colocation business, offering space, power, and network connectivity to customers who provide their own hardware.
Vulnerabilities in Supermicro server firmware require skill to exploit, but if they are, attackers have as much control as if they gained physical access to the system.
Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules, a class of memory and storage that stores frequently accessed data in its memory rather than forcing the server to fetch it from a hard disk.
Growth and new platforms are driving sales for a once-moribund market.
Researchers find they can recover data from encrypted VMs.
Three-quarters of examined open-source servers have unpatched exploits.
An oversupply of memory chips, plus aggressive pricing by SSD suppliers are causing SSD prices to drop, while the capacity of drives continues to increase.
With NVMe over Fabric, a big limitation on SSDs in the enterprise is going away. This will be worth the upgrade.
Anonymous sources say Qualcomm is looking to shut down or sell its Centriq line of ARM-based data center processors, causing people to speculate about the company's plans.
To help companies control data creep, Hitachi, HPE and IBM upgraded their SSD-based storage arrays with de-duplication features.
Cavium claims its ThunderX2 server processors have superior price-performance compared with its Intel Skylake counterparts.