90% of enterprises plan to have fully autonomous data centers
Enterprise data centers were manned and manually operated by personnel, who had to be there for potential maintenance tasks. However, advancements in AI are changing things, according to an IDC report backed by Huawei.
The report talks about a new kind of datacenter where the automation levels a... Read more
Oracle adds flexible load balancing to its public cloud
The company's automated load balancing reduces the need for manual input.
Oracle this week unveiled a new feature in the company's cloud platform: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Flexible Load Balancer. The new service aims to facilitate easier addition and removal of network resources inside enterp... Read more
Edge computing is set to hit its inflection point in 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the production of fewer net-new tech and business developments. However, it has accelerated the adoption of technology trends that were already in motion.
One of the most notably accelerated technologies is Edge computing. Every tech vendor, including hardware, s... Read more
Gartner predicts 6% growth in data center infrastructure in 2021
Gartner has some good news for data center infrastructure vendors. In a forecast Gartner predicts that there will be a 6% growth in spending next year. The expected growth is attributed to businesses rebounding from cash flow problems that resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The prediction stat... Read more
AWS continues investment in Spain with new data centers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set to open data centers in Spain, enabling AWS users to run workloads and store data in Spain with lower latency.
According to the company, initially the new AWS Europe (Spain) Region will consist of three Availability Zones.
It will open late 2022 or early 2023 ... Read more
AMD announces next-generation EPYC data center chips
Chipset manufacturer AMD has announced the second generation of its EPYC data center processing chips. The new chips are being used by Google, Microsoft and HPE, among others.
The new EPYC processors are built using new technology from contract manufacturers, which improves performance and reduces e... Read more
New PAC D5005 from Intel is programmable accelerator card for servers
Intel has introduced the PAC D5005. This is a new accelerator card that allows servers in data centers to run workloads such as analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) software simultaneously.
An accelerator card can be placed in a server to supplement the built-in processor. However, the D500... Read more
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 ... Read more
After cloud computing, the market for cloud recycling is now emerging
More and more companies are exchanging their own data centres and devices for the cloud. However, equipment for large data centres has a short lifespan, creating an entirely new market. The market of cloud-recycling.
Among other things, cloud servers have a very short lifespan, according to experts ... Read more
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 ... Read more