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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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 ... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
Microsoft announces plans to build an Azure data center in Denmark
Microsoft is continuing its expansion of global Azure data centers at a rapid rate. The company revealed that it plans to launch a new region in Denmark after announcing new regions in Taiwan and Austria two months ago.
In line with many recent announcements from the software giant, there is als... Read more
Microsoft opens its most sustainable data center in Sweden in 2021
Microsoft announced a plan to open in Sweden in 2021, the most advanced and sustainable data center location ever made. The company says that the new region, which includes data centers in Gävle Sandviken and Staffanstorp, will help it achieve the goal of using 100% renewable energy sources in all... Read more