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The world's coolest data centers

Data centers gobble up energy and generate heat, but here are some data centers that try to do it with their own flair

The world's coolest data centers
Slideshow: Highlights from Ingram's $6m datacentre launch

Ingram Micro took the wrappers off its $6m datacentre facility in Sydney on September 10. Check out some of the snaps from the evening.

Slideshow: Highlights from Ingram's $6m datacentre launch

Intel's fastest 22-core Broadwell chip comes to new servers

Lenovo, HPE and Dell roll out new servers with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chip
Don't look for Google to make big, quick changes after Alphabet pronouncement

The declaration Monday that saw Google reorganize under the banner of new holding company Alphabet was Big News, we all seem to agree, but it's ...
Cisco indirect infringement case against Arista dismissed

Patent and copyright litigation continues; Cisco OK with the ruling
IBM Power Systems GM: Big scale and big data demand OpenPower

According to the conventional wisdom, Power was another victim – along with SPARC and, to a lesser extent, ARM – of the inexorable march of ...
Coal plant fires, Google hires

Google is building a $600 million data center on the grounds of a soon-to-close coal plant in northeastern Alabama. The project may create an iconic ...
One in three datacentre servers is a zombie

A new study says that 30 per cent of all physical servers in data centers are comatose, meaning they use energy but deliver no useful ...

The future of networking is a NOS on your choice of bare metal, says Cumulus Networks

If Cumulus Networks has its way, companies will use its Cumulus Linux to decouple the network operating system from the hardware
Cloud computing causing rethinking of disaster recovery

IBM's Richard Cocchiara gives his perspective
Google making steady progress in the enterprise

Google Enterprise is winning converts to everything from its productivity tools to its cloud offerings

The top 10 supercomputers in the world, 20 years ago

The Top500 list from June 1995 shows just how far the possibilities of silicon have come in the past 20 years. Performance figures are listed ...
Tech Media Watch: HBO's "Silicon Valley" set to wrap 2nd season – it won't be "Game Of Thrones"-esque but it'll do

The far-and-away best satire of the technology industry on TV airs the last episode of its second season Sunday night, and you really should be ...
Top distributed computing projects still hard at work fighting the world's worst health issues

Thanks to thousands of strangers, Ebola researchers are getting the help and computing power they need to shave off the time needed to find new ...
Will network disaggregation play in the enterprise?

Disaggregation seems to be all the rage in networking these days.
Debunking the myths about scale-up architectures

Given the rapid pace of server design innovation, earlier concerns about scale-up servers no longer hold water
Debunking SSD Myths

Despite the huge gains that solid-state drives are making, some myths persist, all unjustified