Tag: Data Center

July 15, 2020

Mainframe users looking to bring legacy applications into the public or private cloud world have a new option: LzLabs, a mainframe software migration vendor. Founded in 2011 and based in Switzerland, LzLabs this week said it’s setting up shop in […]

July 8, 2020

Oracle on Wednesday officially announced the expansion of its Cloud@Customer hybrid cloud offering with the debut of Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. The new, fully-managed service brings all of Oracle’s public cloud services, including its Autonomous Database and SaaS applications, directly to […]

April 22, 2020

A Database Management System, or DBMS, allows its users to create, read, delete and update data within a database. The management system works as an interface between users and/or application programs and the database to make sure that all data […]

April 14, 2020

Security protocols and technologies are most effective when considered at the start of architecting enterprise infrastructure or developing business processes, rather than being bolted on as an afterthought. The entire security landscape has changed in recent years and continues to […]

March 16, 2020

Google says a set of crushed wheels used for moving its server racks triggered a chain reaction that may have disrupted Search, Gmail, and other services for some users. A rack of servers at one of its data centers started […]

February 25, 2020

VMware this week further integrated and added new features to its security software in an effort to bring unified protection to resources in data centers, and private clouds and public clouds. The company rolled out three new offerings: VMware Advanced […]

January 14, 2020

Equinix announced today that is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet. The New York City startup that had raised over $36 million on a $100 million valuation, according to Pitchbook data. Equinix has a set of data centers and co-locations […]

January 10, 2020

Synergy Research Group’s review of enterprise IT spending during the last 10 years shows that “annual spending on cloud infrastructure services has gone from virtually zero to almost $100 billion.” No surprise here. However, “enterprise spending on data center hardware […]

January 3, 2020

Although not a new concept, we are now looking at the opportunity for those who have private servers with excess capacity to rent that capacity to a cloud service provider that can dole out those compute and storage systems on […]

December 4, 2019

Looking to further nudge the data-center crowd into the cloud world, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its long-awaited Outposts hybrid-cloud service this week. Outposts delivers on-premises hardware and services that enables AWS cloud services inside enterprise data centers. […]

December 3, 2019

Ampere Computing, the semiconductor startup led by former Intel president Renee James that designs Arm-based server processors, is preparing to launch its next-generation CPU by mid-2020. The upcoming chip will have 80 cores, much more than the 32-core processor the […]

November 20, 2019

IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations. IBM is addressing this challenge with its Cloud Pak for Security, which features open-source technology […]

September 27, 2019

Everyone wants a green data center, also known as a sustainable data center. There are both policy and technology pushes in this emerging space, such as countries that are encouraging voluntary reduction of a data center’s carbon footprint. For instance, […]

July 30, 2019

Ancient cultures all over the world relied on the phases of the moon and the stars in the night sky to time the planting of seeds and harvesting of crops. We have all heard and used the analogy of “when […]

June 14, 2019

Traditional private clouds are on their way out. I’m talking about the open standards-based stuff that was huge a couple of years, but fell behind in features or functions compared to the public cloud providers. Other factors included complexity of […]

May 1, 2019

You’d almost think I’d get tired of writing this story over and over and over… but the ongoing growth of cloud computing is too big a trend to ignore. Critically, the impressive growth numbers of the three leading cloud infrastructure […]

October 25, 2018

Intel’s third quarter results were better-than-expected as its data center group delivered record revenue that was up 26 percent from a year ago. The chip giant reported net income of $6.4 billion, or $1.38 a share, on revenue of $19.2 […]

September 13, 2018

Cloud adoption is undoubtedly the cornerstone of digital transformation, and for many, it is the foundation for rapid, scalable application development and delivery. Companies of all sizes and from across all industries are racing to achieve the many benefits afforded […]

July 26, 2018

One of the early knocks on Google’s cloud services is that it assumed a pure cloud play for every customer and had virtually nothing for supporting on-premises systems. While that might work for smaller businesses looking to shut down their […]

July 19, 2018

Adoption of hybrid IT for delivery of applications across legacy enterprise data centers, and increasingly cloud SaaS and IaaS platforms, is rendering traditional network architectures obsolete. Numerous analysts and articles have predicted the coming obsolescence of hub and spoke MPLS […]