Data center architecture stories

Legrand unveils Nexpand, a data center cabinet platform
Thu, 19th May 2022
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sustainable it
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digital transformation
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data centre maintenance / management
Legrand has unveiled a new data center cabinet platform, Nexpand, to offer the necessary scalability and future-proof architecture for digital transformation.

Knowledge gap surrounding crucial container security principles
Thu, 5th Aug 2021
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cybersecurity
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data center architecture
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data center security
"There is a staggering knowledge gap that leads to an underinvestment in a critical part of full lifecycle, end-to-end security for cloud native applications."

Equinix rules the roost in Cloudscene H1 2021 Data Center Ecosystem Leaderboard
Fri, 16th Jul 2021
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data centre operators
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equinix
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cloudscene
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.

Equinix commits to achieving 100% renewable energy by 2030
Thu, 17th Jun 2021
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data centre operators
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equinix
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data center management
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.

New performance evaluation method helps realize computing power for hyperscale cloud clusters
Tue, 27th Apr 2021
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cloud services
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colocation
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ai
Virtually any cloud service provider can utilize this new performance evaluation method to help realize computing power for its hyperscale cloud clusters.

NVIDIA names data centre CPU after computer scientist Grace Hopper
Thu, 15th Apr 2021
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ai
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servers
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nvidia
NVIDIA Grace is designed to support artificial intelligence-based supercomputers, natural language processing, and recommender systems.

NEXTDC wins APAC Business Award
Tue, 16th Feb 2021
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data centre operators
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awards
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nextdc
The company has been named 'Australia’s Most Reliable Data Centre Provider'.

Cushman & Wakefield ranks top 10 data center locations worldwide
Tue, 9th Feb 2021
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data center architecture
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dc
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cushman & wakefield
“The 2020 pandemic accelerated the change in corporate IT strategy, as companies rapidly shifted to the cloud."

Following explosion in demand, global data center market to grow 14% in 2021
Thu, 28th Jan 2021
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data center management
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cloud data center
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data center architecture
“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.”

Darwin to become home to world's first Indigenous operated data centre
Sat, 26th Dec 2020
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cloud data center
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data center architecture
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dc
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.

How memory failure prediction keeps data centers and the digital economy up and running
Thu, 3rd Dec 2020
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intel
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data center management
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data center architecture
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.

Nokia onboards HPE GreenLake for data centre sustainability
Mon, 23rd Nov 2020
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smartphones
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data centre maintenance / management
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power / energy
According to a company blog post, Nokia and HPE will work together to transform Nokia’s data centres into ‘carbon negative’ IT producers.

Aruba dreams big with two more data centres planned
Tue, 13th Oct 2020
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aruba networks
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data center architecture
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data center construction
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.

NVIDIA pioneers BlueField-2 DPU - a data center on a chip
Wed, 7th Oct 2020
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servers
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nvidia
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data center architecture
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.

Q&A: MaxBill CEO talks data centre growth and its impact on energy billing
Mon, 24th Aug 2020
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data centre maintenance / management
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power / energy
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data center architecture
"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."

Significant data centre projects announced for Europe and APAC
Tue, 14th Jul 2020
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data center interconnection
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dc
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data center architecture
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.

The importance of the lithium-ion battery for future data centres
Thu, 11th Jun 2020
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data center interconnection
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huawei
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data center architecture
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.

Australia within grasp of sustainable data centre ecosystem - report
Tue, 19th May 2020
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sustainable it
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data center architecture
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wepower
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.

Oracle launches Gen 2 Cloud data center in South Korea
Tue, 12th May 2020
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data center interconnection
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oracle
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data center architecture
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.

Northern Data AG buys data center specialist Kelvin Emtech Group
Thu, 30th Apr 2020
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hpc
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data center architecture
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northern data ag
“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 launches thermal monitoring solutions for data centers
Thu, 16th Apr 2020
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ekkosense
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data center architecture
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thermal monitoring
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.

Nutanix expands Xi Frame support across additional APAC data centers
Mon, 16th Mar 2020
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wfh
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converged infrastructure
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vdi
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 launches new Ethernet switches for next-gen data centres
Tue, 10th Mar 2020
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ethernet
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mellanox
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cloud data center
Mellanox says the Ethernet switch is optimised for cloud, Ethernet storage fabric and AI applications through its support from Spectrum-3.

Data centers are not keeping up with needs - survey
Tue, 10th Mar 2020
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colocation
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forbes
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vertiv
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.