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'Scalable multi-core processing,' or how Meg Whitman met Madagascar's Alex...
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikAnd here's what it looked like: HP's CEO and president Meg Whitman (right), Alex the Lion (center), and Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks.Add to Daily RSS: Add to Daily...
View ArticleEver read about a Google-designed server and wanted one? Now you can rent it
Author: Yevgeniy Sverdlik…well, at least some of it.Anyone in the world with an Internet connection can now use Google’s custom-made servers and its custom-made network switches housed in its...
View ArticleBlast from the past: online news 30 years ago
Author: Yevgeniy Sverdlik“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem…”It’s always...
View ArticleDuke Energy CEO – the shortest-term position ever
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikBill Johnson may very well be the record holder for occupying a CEO position for the shortest term ever.Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers told North Carolina regulators the company’s...
View ArticleOracle gets officially slapped for IBM Power smack-talking
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikOracle has agreed to stop saying its Exadata machines are 20 times faster than IBM’s Power products, following a ruling by the National Advertising Division (NAD) that the...
View ArticleNope … still dying
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikOne highlight of HP’s third fiscal quarter that was mentioned only in passing during the company’s earnings call last week was the court’s decision in its legal smack-down with...
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Exadata – power savings courtesy of Intel (and some airflow optimization)
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikJuan Loaiza, Oracle’s senior VP of systems technology (second from the left) during a press Q&A at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San FranciscoAdd to Daily RSS: Add to Daily RSS...
View ArticleSandy: the uptime stories
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikWhile our coverage of the Wrath of Sandy has been circling around the major data center outages and the blood, sweat and tears it has taken to keep some infrastructure online,...
View ArticleIBM’s chip-size liquid cooler
Author: Yevgeniy Sverdlik Liquid cooling is cool (puns aside). It’s using something generally perceived as risky to get an extreme boost in efficiency. It’s done on multiple levels: bringing liquid...
View ArticleSubmersion in oil: Facebook’s favorite server-cooling hack of the year
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikAre going to see rows of oil-filled tanks replace server racks in Facebook data centers in the future? Perhaps.Add to Daily RSS: Add to Daily RSS read more
View ArticlePopulation size alone means nothing for IT spending, it’s economic maturity...
Author: Yevgeniy Sverdlik While 2013 will not bring an IT spending bonanza, people will not be as shy to invest in technology as they were in 2012, according to Gartner analysts who predict spending to...
View ArticleMicrosoft – uptime magic happens in software
The pace with which the world’s demand for data center capacity is growing has made traditional approach to data center availability through hardware and infrastructure redundancy unsustainable for...
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Photo tour: inside a NetApp data center
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikAlong with announcing to the world its first all-flash storage array Tuesday, NetApp took a group of reporters on a tour of one of three data centers it has at its Sunnyvale,...
View ArticleContainers contain outages at Microsoft data center
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikIn case you're tired of reading about the virtues of data center containers (or containerized data centers), here's another article on the subject, although this one does have...
View ArticleTech services and emerging markets drive data center sector growth
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikThe Uptime Institute released preliminary results of its annual data center industry survey recently. We caught up with the organization's director of content Matt Stansberry...
View ArticlePHOTO TOUR: Inside Equinix' latest Silicon Valley data center
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikAs far as retail colo providers are concerned, Equinix is undoubtedly the biggest out there. In addition to being the biggest, the company is known for making the interiors of...
View ArticleEver read about a Google-designed server and wanted one? Now you can rent it
Author: Yevgeniy Sverdlik…well, at least some of it.Anyone in the world with an Internet connection can now use Google’s custom-made servers and its custom-made network switches housed in its...
View ArticleBlast from the past: online news 30 years ago
Author: Yevgeniy Sverdlik“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem…”It’s always...
View ArticleDuke Energy CEO – the shortest-term position ever
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikBill Johnson may very well be the record holder for occupying a CEO position for the shortest term ever.Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers told North Carolina regulators the company’s...
View ArticleOracle gets officially slapped for IBM Power smack-talking
Author: Yevgeniy SverdlikOracle has agreed to stop saying its Exadata machines are 20 times faster than IBM’s Power products, following a ruling by the National Advertising Division (NAD) that the...
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