Data center architecture stories

Cloudscene has released the results of its H1 2021 Data Center Ecosystem Leaderboard, with Equinix taking out the top spot in four of the five analysed regions.>>

The digital infrastructure and data centre company aims to make a 50% absolute reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions from a 2019 base year by 2030. >>

Virtually any cloud service provider can utilize this new performance evaluation method to help realize computing power for its hyperscale cloud clusters.>>

NVIDIA Grace is designed to support artificial intelligence-based supercomputers, natural language processing, and recommender systems.>>

The company has been named 'Australia’s Most Reliable Data Centre Provider'.>>

“The 2020 pandemic accelerated the change in corporate IT strategy, as companies rapidly shifted to the cloud.">>

“The impact of COVID-19 fundamentally accelerated the concept of ‘mission critical’. Overnight, businesses became even more reliant on the cloud to enable operations, processes and remote collaboration.”>>

In a coup for the Darwin area, local Indigenous-owned business Binary Security has acquired the rights to operate a major new data centre at Charles Darwin University.>>

The data center, now rightly classified by governments worldwide as essential critical infrastructure, has become for business and society what oxygen is for the ultramarathon runner, writes Intel general manager of data center management solutions Jeff Klaus.>>

According to a company blog post, Nokia and HPE will work together to transform Nokia’s data centres into ‘carbon negative’ IT producers.>>

ruba’s global data centre network is undergoing an expansion that will add two more facilities and upgrades to the company’s hydroelectric and photovoltaic plants in Italy.>>

Unveiled at GTC 2020, the company revealed details about its new data processing units (DPUs) that support NVIDIA’s data center infrastructure on a chip software called DOCA.>>

"Most data centres are using electricity that is coming from a local power grid, where energy from renewable sources is not yet a significant part of the energy mix. This has created an opportunity for renewable energy providers to directly address data centres as a specific customer segment.">>

A new partnership between real estate investment firm Cromwell and data centre group Stratus has fast-tracked plans for new data centres in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and beyond.>>

Inefficient energy expenditure; huge physical footprints; limited product lifespan - these are the primary issues facing data centres today. But the Li-ion battery and its use in this UPS system could change that.>>

The data centre sector in Australia alone is responsible for more than 4% of national energy consumption, second only to the resources sector, and is spread across the country’s 50,000 and counting data centre facilities.>>

The Chuncheon data center brings Oracle one step closer to achieving its goal of launching 36 Gen 2 Cloud data centers by the end of 2020.>>

“We have experienced an extreme growth momentum in recent weeks driven by the high demand for computing capacity and in particular for HPC solutions.">>

EkkoSense has released a line of remote thermal monitoring solutions that are designed to assist data center operators in reducing the impact of COVID-19.>>

According to Nutanix, the expansion aims to soften the blow of COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak by enabling more businesses and employees to work from remote locations, such as their homes.>>

Mellanox says the Ethernet switch is optimised for cloud, Ethernet storage fabric and AI applications through its support from Spectrum-3.>>

Just 29% of data center decision-makers say their current facilities are meeting their needs, and only 6% say their data centers are updated ahead of their needs. >>

Supermicro says the new systems are ideal for harsh outdoor environments and support the industry's movement toward open-source software and disaggregated hardware.>>

The company’s new offering provides services to support the design, build and operation of Tier-4 data centres.>>