Lights Out: Why Your Next Data Center May Be Hands-Free

Regardless of industry, environmental sustainability has become an undeniable business imperative. Global warming from carbon emissions, increasing sea levels and images of pollution are increasing public and shareholder pressure on corporations

After a couple of weeks of rumor, as well as a couple of years of hearsay, AMD has gone feet first into a full acquisition of FPGA manufacturer Xilinx. The deal involves an all-stock transaction, leveraging AMDs sizeable share price in order to enable an equivalent $143 per Xilinx share current AMD stockholders will still own 74% of the combined company, while Xilinx stockholders will own 26%. Th

Joins ranks of US-listed Chinese firms selling shares in Hong Kong to expand their investor bases and to hedge against deteriorating Washington-Beijing relations.

The firm says its new storage cluster can enable AWS EBS-like scale-out cloud storage in smaller providers’ data centers.

The Darling Downs (Photo: Paul Budde) In October 2020, I went on a two-week tour into Queensland’s Outback, traveling through various landscapes from pastoral and agricultural lands to savanna and the desert. Leaving Brisbane, past Toowoomba, you enter the Darling Downs. This is one of the richest agricultural areas in Australia. British Botanist Alan Cunningham first explored it in 1827. H

Strategic Planning Assumptions By the end of 2022, the number of enterprise network teams using a SaaS-based console to manage data center networks will increase by more than 10 times to more than 1,500. By 2023, more than 10% of large enterprises will be running on-premises public cloud infrastructure (such as AWS Outposts) in their private data centers, which is an increase from less than 1% i

DataBank, a provider of colocation and managed services company which is owned by Los Angeles-based private equity investor Colony Capital, has made a $30M, strategic investment in EdgePresence, a developer of data centers. According to Colony Capital, EdgePresence provides multi-tenant, modular data centers, which include critical power, monitoring, physical security, and cooling, and are deploye

Ten years ago this fall, Google gave us a glimpse of a new device unlike any it had ever built before—a computer-controlled car. It seemed such a strange thing for an Internet company to spend its time and energy on, a “moonshot” as the company’s engineers called such massive efforts. But with a single blog post, the search giant promised to reinvent our cars, and our communities, too.It was a big

Facebook’s web tier is one of the main services that handle HTTP requests from people using our services each time they interact with Facebook. It is a massive global service distributed across multiple data centers throughout the world. Since we have people from all over the world using our services, the load on the web […] Read More… The post Throughput autoscaling: Dynamic sizing for Facebo