BROWSING: data centers

Hyperconverged infrastructure is designed to give businesses of any size data center and cloud capabilities AUSTIN, Texas – A little more than a month after closing its acquisition of EMC, the combined Dell EMC on Wednesday unveiled a new hyperconverged infrastructure solution touted by several executives...

Major cloud customers include the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense and Aston Martin Microsoft has expanded its cloud offerings with the addition of Azure and Office 365 to data center locations in the United Kingdom. The rollout comes with major wins with major players including the...

Cloud computing and big data analytics will usher in artificial intelligence era This week Intel announced a "definitive agreement" to buy San Diego-based Nervana Systems, which specializes in deep learning, an artificial intelligence technique meant to create machine learning that mirrors human thought. This is the...

Verizon digital content distribution plans in India set to begin with four points of presence in Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and New Delhi Verizon Communications’ Digital Media Services in looking to expand its distribution presence announced a partnership with India telecom operator Bharti Airtel to launch...

Digital Bridge, the communications infrastructure company founded by tower investor Marc Ganzi, has bought a Texas company that owns and operates data centers. DataBank, formerly owned by a private equity firm, owns six data centers in Dallas, Minneapolis and Kansas City. The companies did not...

Fujitsu plans to install the Oracle Cloud platform in its Japanese data centers Fujitsu and Oracle Corporation Japan signed a strategic alliance to deliver cloud platform and services to customers in Japan and their subsidiaries around the world. Under terms of the agreement, Oracle Cloud application...

With continued growth in the need for data centers, those looking to build must decide between a prefab or traditional build solution The modern data center is a fully integrated machine. Systems that previously simply co-existed under the same roof are now expected to work...

U.S. firm aims to complete the data center transactions in 2016 U.S.-based Digital Reality, which provides data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, entered into a definitive agreement with Equinix to acquire a portfolio of eight carrier-neutral data centers across Europe. Five of the data center...

Flexenclosure looks at what advances we should expect in data centers, which are becoming an increasingly important component of telecom operations The proliferation of smart handsets, constant rollout of new applications and the ongoing expansion of mobile networks into previously under- or entirely unserved communities...

Cloud-as-a-service trades capital hardware, software and licensing costs into an operating expense Faced with the ever-increasing need to cut costs and boost revenues, many enterprises are turning to digitalization strategies focused on using cloud computing platforms and attendant data analytics functions to gain efficiency and...

CEO Jeff Bezos attributes success to innovation and customer-obsessed approach Highlighting the increasing importance of cloud-based computing and attendant data center needs, Amazon Web Services hit $10 billion in annual sales in 2015, according to a company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission....

The Open Compute Project, as it continues to gain interest of telecom players, is bringing the innovation of white box servers in the hyperscale data center space to new markets. This episode of HetNet Happenings takes a look at how that innovation is being cross-pollinated...

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some top news items from across the space as well as speak with Quortus to get a primer on mobile edge computing On today’s show we have an interview with Riki Dolby, director of engineering at...

Facebook CEO calls addition of Google a 'strong symbolic move' SAN JOSE, California – The Open Compute Project, started by Facebook in 2011, has grown to encompass some of the biggest names in tech hardware including Microsoft, Intel, Ericsson, and now Google. The announcement came on March...

Facebook VP of infrastructure discusses Open Compute Project adoption by telecommunications industry SAN JOSE, California – Jason Taylor, Facebook VP of infrastructure and Open Compute Project Foundation chairman and and president, kicked off the Open Compute Summit by touching on adoption in the telecommunications industry. “These...

According to a report by Bloomberg, Google, which buys its data center server chips from Intel, could take that highly lucrative business to competitor Qualcomm if that company's chips meet performance standards. Citing "people familiar with the matter," Bloomberg reports the search giant "is planning to...

Project Natick is Microsoft's effort to make a more efficient, better located data center under the sea Cloud computing heavyweight Microsoft, looking to boost the operational efficiency of data centers while physically locating content closer to users, has tested running servers sealed in a pod located...

Learn more about data center power needs and moves toward sustainability As the demand for streaming video, mobile applications and other technologies that require high-bandwidth continues to proliferate, the need for data centers will continue to increase. In this article, we look into data center...

What is the Open Compute Project? The Open Compute project is nonprofit founded in 2011 with the goal of reimaging the design of server, storage and other data center hardware with the goal of driving scalable computing through sharing of information and technical specifications. The appetite...

Facebook data centers said to be 100% powered by renewable energy In a Jan. 24 blog post, Facebook announced it will build its second European data center in the small town of Clonee, County Meath, in Ireland. VP of infrastructure Tom Furlong said the new project...

Verizon Communications hopes to raise more than $2.5 billion through the sale of 48 data centers, according to Reuters. The carrier got into the data center business in a big way in 2011 with the $1.4 billion purchase of Terremark, but now may be...

What to expect from SDN and data centers in 2016 Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year. In 2015, service providers, telecom operators, and...

IT plans in 2016 set for challenge from digital transformation Editor’s Note: With 2016 now upon us, RCR Wireless News has gathered predictions from leading industry analysts and executives on what they expect to see in the new year. CIOs and other tech leaders will...

Montana officials, with an eye on economic development, have been working with Google and Facebook to convince the technology giants to build data centers in the Western state. According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, leaders of the Bozeman-based Northern Rocky Mountain Development District visited Google...