Dell set record revenue from PC and data center demand
Dell Technologies delivered the best Q3 performance in its history after experiencing a demand surge for personal computers and data centers infrastructure. The company released the report on Tuesday, showing a profit (before certain costs like stock compensation) of $2.015 billion.
That number ...
Microsoft constructs three data centers in Belgium
Microsoft will build a new data center region in the Brussels area. The construction of the new data center region is part of Microsoft's Belgian Digital AmBEtion development plan.
The Digital AmBEtion plan aims to accelerate the digital transformation of the Belgian public and private sectors. ...
Atlas Data API from MongoDB offers better data access
MongoDB’s Atlas Data API is perfect for automating data infrastructures and offering data access control.
MongoDB has released a preview of Atlas Data API on November 18. It is a REST-like API and allows access to fully managed Atlas data.
Developers can use this API to process queries in M...
OVH plans to share its OpenStack automation for on-prem clouds
OVH will share the automation tools it developed to run its own OpenStack-based cloud as part of its strategy to grow its managed cloud business.
In Europe, the French company has offered to operate and manage a private cloud using its tech on customers' premises. OVH is planning to let others h...
IBM and AWS partner to create more data tools for oil companies
IBM and Amazon’s Amazon Web Services announced a partnership on Monday that will see them work together to extend the use of the tools used by oil companies to manage disparate data types.
Amazon in 2018 partnered with Royal Dutch Shell to develop a technology that turns data from more than 10...
Juniper launches new experience-first QFX5700 Series switch
Juniper Networks says it is future-proofing enterprise data centres with the launch of the latest iteration of its QFX5700 Series networking switch. The company is calling it the most flexible midsized switch of its kind in the market.
It can mix and match line cards with various interface optio...
Telefonica to migrate its systems to Oracle’s cloud
The Spanish telecom company, Telefonica, signed a multi-year deal with cloud-services provider Oracle, to migrate most of its database to the cloud. The firms announced the deal on Monday in preparation for the use of IoT and 5G.
The telecoms company, which already used Oracle data systems, will...
IBM delivers high-density tape drives with the latest LTO-9 specs
IBM has announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification. The design allows the drives to offer higher data capacity and resilience.
The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 comes with a 50% improvement in capacity over LT0-8, me...
Google focuses on “sustainability” in managing DC workloads
The company will leverage its new computing platform as a way to "decarbonize" their electrical consumption
Google is planning to shift workloads from data center to data center based on availability of renewable energy, the company says. The plan is based on a “carbon-intelligent computing ...
OVH fire may be caused by faulty UPS
OVH founder Octave Klabe has shared more information about what happened at the burnt down Strasbourg data centre. There are strong indications that the fire started at a faulty uninterruptible power supply.
In a video uploaded to OVH's website, Klabe apologises for the incident. He also explain...
Half the output from North Sea wind farm sold to Amazon
Shell and the Dutch electricity supplier Eneco have announced that half of the power generated by a future wind farm in the North Sea will be used to provide green electricity to an Amazon server.
The two energy companies are building an offshore wind farm in the North Sea called Hollands Kust N...
Clouds and datacenters form coalition to become climate neutral in EU
In a move towards a green future, twenty-five data centre operators in Europe and seventeen trade associations have come together to make their operations climate-neutral by 2030. This is a show of commitment to support the effort to curb carbon emissions.
Companies like Amazon Web Services, Equ...