Tag Archives: data center
Intel’s latest acquisition is a $2 billion push into AI
Intel just spent approximately $2 billion to acquire Israel-based AI firm Habana Labs. The partnership will "turbo-charge" Intel's AI offerings for data centers, Intel said in a press release.
Google’s Curie undersea cable now connects the US and Chile
Curie, a 10,500-kilometer-long undersea cable, now connects Google data centers in the US and Chile. Today, Google announced that the fiber optic cable has been successfully installed and tested. It is expected to begin transmitting data in the secon...
NordVPN admits to ‘isolated’ server breach in Finland
Virtual private network provider NordVPN has confirmed an attacker breached one of its servers, though the tangible impact of the breach seems to be pretty limited. There were no user activity logs on the server -- the company says it doesn't track,...
Microsoft beats Amazon to open the first cloud data center in Africa
Microsoft has become the first major cloud provider to open a data center in South Africa. Its two new Azure facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg have been in the works since 2017, and while they were originally slated to go live in 2018, their a...
Facebook Announces Wind Powered Data Center in Texas
Today Facebook officially announced it will be constructing a fifth data center. The location of the data center has been revealed as Fort Worth, Texas. The new data center will join other previous...
Equinix Is Productizing Flash Trading Computing Architecture
In his new book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis directs his gleeful analytic spotlight on flash trading. True to form, Lewis tells a heroic story, in this case about how a team from Royal Bank of Canada...
When Good Clouds Go Bad
Western Digital has been actively promoting its “My Cloud” cloud backup and remote access for their branded external storage products (they had a significant display of these services at the 2014 CES...
Why Facebook, eBay Measure Power And Water Consumption In Their Data Centers
Cloud services companies like Facebook and eBay have a vested interest in making their data centers as energy-efficient and water-efficient as possible, not just because it makes for a good public...
Cloud Computing And Enterprises: Proof That Opposites Can Attract
Everything the cloud stands for is diametrically opposed to what enterprise computing stands for. But that’s okay — cloud promises to free up and expand enterprises in ways never imaginable with...