‘Intel plans series of layoffs in data center division’
Intel's Data Center Group will face a significant number of redundancies in the event of a reorganisation. Reportedly, between 25 percent and 33 percent of the personnel involved could lose their jobs.
Intel did not provide any comment on the truth of the messages. However, the company will disc...
Equinix acquires Packet for adventure in the network edge
Equinix, operator of data centers, has bought the start-up Packet for a move to the edge computing market. Packet offers hosted bare metal servers; Equinix wants to use the acquisition to improve its own bare metal offering.
Packet's bare metal servers allow customers to manage all layers above ...
Dropbox: SMR adoption made running data centers cheaper
Dropbox states that the adoption of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology has reduced the cost and energy consumption of its data centers, and added hundreds of petabytes of new data storage capacity. SMR technology was deployed last year.
SMR is a magnetic storage technology used in HDDs to ...
Amsterdam is putting the brakes on the addition of new data centres
The municipality of Amsterdam has decided to pause the construction of new data centres until the end of the year. The capital attracted tech companies with attractive taxes and relatively cheap energy, but according to the city there are now too many data centers.
The capital has more data centers ...
Google invests one billion euros in Dutch data centers
Google has announced that it will invest a billion euros in the data centres in the Netherlands, according to the Financieele Dagblad. The internet giant is not only going to expand its data centre in Eemshaven, but is also building a new data centre in the province of Noord-Holland.
Google announc...
Microsoft is going to build ‘most sustainable’ data centers ever in Sweden
Microsoft has announced plans to build two new data centers in Sweden, which should be among the "most sustainable" data centers ever built. The buildings are powered by renewable energy sources only, with plans for zero waste operations.
The data centers are located in the cities of Gävle and S...
Equinix expands firmly with twelve new data centres
Data centre specialist Equinix is working on a major expansion. 23 data centres will be upgraded, while 12 brand new ones will be planted worldwide. Europe is also getting some new sites.
Equinix is investing approximately $1.9 billion in the construction of twelve new international data centres and...
Xilinx focuses on data centre networking with acquisition Solarflare
Xilinx, a manufacturer of highly specialized semiconductor technologies, has announced the acquisition of Solarflare Communications.
Solarflare uses FPGAs, which are computer chips that can be reprogrammed at any time to perform specific tasks more efficiently. This in turn enables the creation of ...
Equinix acquires Amsterdam’s data centre for 30 million euros
Equinix has taken over the AMS1 data centre activities of Switch Datacenters for 30 million euros. This location is located near the Equinix campus in Amsterdam Zuidoost. The data centre will continue under the name Equinix AM11 International Business Exchange (IBX).
As a result of the acquisition, ...
Microsoft not yet ready to use water cooling in Azure data centres
Microsoft has experimented with various techniques for liquid cooling, but does not yet consider the technology mature enough to be widely used for server cooling in the data centres of its Azure cloud.
That's what Brandon Rubenstein, Director Solutions Development and Mechanical/Thermal Engineering...
Intel shrugs faster CXL interconnect for data centers
Intel and other technology companies join forces in a consortium to develop Compute Express Link. This is a new standard for high-speed interconnects between cpus and purpose-built accelerator chips in data centres.
Compute Express Link (CXL) was born four years ago within Intel and is now being lau...
“Google goes to great lengths to maintain confidentiality in negotiations about data centers.
Negotiations between tech companies and cities on possible contracts usually take place behind closed doors. But that secrecy is less and less popular, as Amazon recently discovered when it cancelled plans for a new campus in New York. Among other things, it received many comments on the secrecy sur...