The biggest players in the data center industry are raising the thermostats in their data centers, with some saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs in the process. Discussion from Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), HP (HPQ), Intel (INTC) and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) … | Continue reading
The cloud vendor wants to replace big iron with hyperscale servers, and COBOL – with Java | Continue reading
The pioneer of selling tiny bare-metal computers as a service expects more growth, fueled by the rise of Arm servers. | Continue reading
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a cryptocurrency exchange for its role in facilitating ransomware payments and issued an advisory to private companies against making such payments. | Continue reading
OCP expanded the meaning of "open source" beyond software to address the same problems open source software is meant to address. | Continue reading
Thanks to its container customer training, the $1 billion container software market is Red Hat’s to lose. Where do the other players stand? | Continue reading
It won't be the first CentOS replacement out the door, but it's being designed to become much more than a RHEL clone. | Continue reading
These 15 companies together account for half of the $54 billion global colocation market. | Continue reading
Although Mirantis had originally planned to sunset the orchestration engine Swarm, long time Docker users have convinced the cloud company to continue development and offer it as a choice alongside Kubernetes. | Continue reading
RISC-V International's CTO says the open source ISA is bound for the data center as CPU in everything from IoT to HPC. | Continue reading
The winner, VLSI, has no products and its only potential revenue is this lawsuit, according to Intel's lawyer. | Continue reading
The three basic categories of supply chain attacks, why they’re especially devastating, and what can be done to guard against them. | Continue reading
From scientists to vendors and enterprises, the computing industry needs a way to predict what’s coming and when. | Continue reading
Red Hat didn't make any friends when it decided to stop supporting the popular free replacement for RHEL, but new alternatives are already in the works. | Continue reading
The Megapack utility-scale energy storage system will help customers of three solar farms ride through when there isn't enough sunshine. | Continue reading
Joe Beda, one of its creators, said one reason for the move was reassuring non-VMware developers that Contour's development wouldn't be steered by a single company. | Continue reading
Gallatin officials expect the future facility, likely by Facebook, to have a transformative effect on the local economy. | Continue reading
The longer the global lockdown, the harder it will be to keep data centers running without failure. | Continue reading
Inside the efforts to keep the quarantined world’s popular internet services running smoothly. | Continue reading
The cloud storage giant has developed a unique approach to data center capacity planning. Here’s how it does it. | Continue reading
In this special series, DCK takes a close look at the rise of Kubernetes and what’s to come for the last few years’ most disruptive technology. | Continue reading
Why the dream of convergence between core and edge data centers is further away than it may sound. | Continue reading
After what was likely the shortest technology battle in computing history, Docker and the D2IQ (formerly Mesosphere) search for new ways ahead. | Continue reading
The firewall is dead, and zero trust is here to replace it. But Google’s BeyondProd is only one way to skin the zero-trust cat. | Continue reading
The startup expects to see its new chips run databases and other heavy workloads in hyperscale cloud platforms. | Continue reading
After two years of planning, the startup will deploy data center containers at tower sites in Austin, Tampa, and Raleigh. | Continue reading
The former Cisco CEO has reunited with the data center tech startup wizards, and they all seem ready to duke it out for a chunk of AWS's Nitro business. | Continue reading
CIO Jacqueline Guichelaar wants to reduce Cisco’s energy consumption and operating costs. | Continue reading
The Equiano cable along Africa’s west coast will be the first to use fiber-level switching. Here’s what that means. | Continue reading
Last year he thought smartphones and servers were five and 10 years away, respectively, but he's had to "pull in his targets." | Continue reading
The two solar projects in Alabama and Tennessee will help supply two data centers under construction with renewable energy most hours of the day. | Continue reading
Wave, a startup developing hardware for deep learning in data centers, open sources the decades-old MIPS architecture. | Continue reading
Servers hijacked for cryptocurrency mining may lead to higher bills from your cloud provider or your power utility. | Continue reading
In what might be its last acquisition as an independent company, Red Hat has purchased Israel-based multi-cloud storage software company NooBaa. | Continue reading
Cisco announced its first set of 400G data center network switches• Two of the switches are aimed at hyperscale cloud platforms, while the other two are for tech-savvy enterprises, and service providers• There is pent-up demand for 400G among hyperscalers, and all big network ven … | Continue reading
The OpenStack Foundation has released StarlingX, a new open source platform ready to take you to the edge• It incorporates existing open source applications like Kubernetes with Wind River and Intel's Titanium Cloud code• Wind River said the code was made open source at the insis … | Continue reading
The company has joined OIN, giving up its ability to sue users of Linux for infringing any of 90,000 or so patents it holds. Not everyone in the open source community believes in its good intentions. | Continue reading
WikiLeaks published what it said was a list of all Amazon Web Services data centers, including their addresses• If accurate, the list would be the most detail the public has ever seen about the world’s biggest cloud provider’s infrastructure• The leak’s purpose is unclear, but th … | Continue reading
Cloud and edge computing startup Packet has raised a $25 million Series B funding round• The company has started to build out the initial nodes on its planned edge computing network• It’s hired a former SoftLayer executive as COO and brought on a Facebook veteran to oversee its h … | Continue reading
Google’s use of AI to optimize data center efficiency has entered a new phase• Machine-learning algorithms are now adjusting cooling-plant settings automatically, in real-time, on a continuous basis• The system builds on the work Google revealed before – an AI-based recommendatio … | Continue reading
A small Texas community is learning its ABCs as Alphabet comes calling. | Continue reading
Startup’s first 20-foot unit has Akamai servers blinking inside | Continue reading
It’s not as wild an idea as it may appear. Project Natick lead Ben Cutler explained to us why he thinks so. | Continue reading