Facebook announced this week its fifth datacenter under construction in Fort Worth, Texas, would be powered by renewable energy sources, including wind. The social media giant said the new $1 billion datacenter would use only renewable energy sources after it completed a deal to bring 200 megawatts of wind energy to the Texas power grid. ...Full article
The December 2013 Target data breach that compromised the credit card information of 40 million customers was the first of many wake-up calls to organizations, bringing home the damage a company can sustain when a partner’s systems are hacked. As the whole world now knows, the HVAC supplier had access to more of Target’s systems than ...Full article
By auditing their organizations' cloud implementations, IT departments can rein in security risks, curtail costs, improve end-user services, and enhance relationships with departments. Once IT professionals know the extent of their enterprises' cloud investments they can help business users gain the most from this spending, while simultaneously attaining governance and security requirements, experts said. Whether ...Full article
IBM will supply cloud and other IT services to a new gas pipeline company spun off earlier this month from a large energy infrastructure supplier. IBM said Thursday (July 9) its five-year IT services deal with Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. is worth $180 million. Along with cloud services, IBM said it would provide the gas ...Full article
Hybrid scale-out NAS specialist Panasas today introduced ActiveStor 18, the latest in its ActiveStor appliance line. According to the company, the new appliance features a 33 percent increase in density, is available in 4TB and 8TB hard drive configurations, and delivers 20PB and 200GB/s scalability. The product will ship in September. “We’re now using Western ...Full article
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) resumed trading at 3:13 pm EST today, after an "internal technical issue" suspended operations for almost four hours. Only three days after HackingTeam was hacked and on the same day, United Airlines suffered from a "network connectivity" issue that grounded seven flights and delayed another 267, the Wall Street ...Full article
The convergence of extreme scale computing and real-time workloads in large enterprises continues with a partnership between high-performance computing leader SGI and Dell aimed at providing in-memory computing to Dell customers running SAP HANA. SGI, Milpitas, Calif., said Wednesday (July 8) the deal with Dell would expand access to large-scale, single-node computing for appliances running ...Full article
Through its newly announced ability to offer Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators on bare metal cloud servers, IBM Cloud's SoftLayer infrastructure now enables organizations to use supercomputing clusters without increasing their current infrastructures. The cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider is targeting businesses of all sizes, from startups to international enterprises, across an array ...Full article
To simplify their jobs, a growing number of employees circumvent IT and go directly to cloud-based tools to share documents, images, and other private business information. This can create security, backup, e-discovery, and compliance concerns if the tool has inadequate protection, loses data, or does not meet corporate or industry regulations or requirements. But people ...Full article
The inexorable rise of big data and the waterfall of unstructured data being generated by connected devices and sensors are fundamentally changing datacenter economics, prompting a growing number of enterprises to consider greater IT virtualization or colocation as they adopt a hybrid cloud approach. Recent market research confirms that datacenter spending continues to increase. But ...Full article
Big network operators like telecommunications and cable carriers are looking for ways to manage storage costs as data volumes grow and applications like streaming video begin to dominate datacenter workloads and network bandwidth. With monthly data storage costs running as high as $15,000 per terabyte, AT&T Labs Research said it expects storage requirements to double ...Full article
Now the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Affordable Care Act subsidies, healthcare providers and insurers can put the possibility of drastic change out of their minds and focus entirely on improving care while cutting costs. Once news of SCOTUS' decision broke, stock prices rose for health insurers and providers. But healthcare costs grew ...Full article
As head of infrastructure at DZ BANK, Dr. Jan Vitt is cautiously leading the conservative German financial institution's investment into cloud. Germany, after all, has some of the most stringent privacy and security regulations in the world, and DZ BANK must adhere to its nation's rules, as well as industry and European Union protocols. However, DZ BANK ...Full article
As more organizations rely on cloud service providers, they must consider how to handle unexpected outages that could impact day-to-day operations or the long-term capacity to access data or systems from their service provider. What, for example, happens if a service provider is out of business for three days? What happens if the company permanently closes ...Full article
Big thinkers with deep pockets like uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk want to bring wireless connectivity to the masses by launching satellite Internet constellations. Given technical issues like latency and the need to launch thousands of satellites into low-Earth orbit to overcome those latency problems while still providing sufficient coverage, a space Internet remains a long shot. ...Full article
News about automation and its socio-economic impact is all around us today. While some automation been around for decades, the last two years have seen exponential progress in its capability and potential impact. But progress, especially in large companies, remains mixed. Research shows that while more than 80 percent of large enterprises have a high ...Full article
Spending on datacenter operations remained steady during the second quarter of 2015 while 25 percent of those administrators responding to a survey said they planned to boost datacenter spending for retrofits over the next 90 days. As datacenter operators hit maximum capacity utilization, however, most are looking to colocation services or cloud service providers rather ...Full article
Whether cloud falls under the bailiwick of IT or a business operation, gaining insight into data about usage, security, and other key metrics is an important – but sometimes difficult – capability to glean. In fact, about 60 percent of 275 infrastructure and operations professionals in the United States, United Kingdom, and Singapore said lack ...Full article
Scalable storage specialist DataDirect Networks (DDN) is launching an aggressive technology roadmap built around software-defined storage, data analytics and other cloud-based services such as active archiving as enterprises cope with growing amounts unstructured data. DDN (Santa Clara, Calif.) led off its technology roadmap with the release Tuesday (June 30) of version 2.0 of its Web ...Full article
No movement has shaken up the tech industry quite like the Internet of Things. Building machine-to-machine (M2M) devices is arguably the most complicated level of development right now because most developers just do not have experience writing concurrent code to make several devices talk. Outsourcing could be the way to make IoT development attainable for ...Full article
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