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SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service
SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.
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Iceotope plumbs in immersively cooled servers for first customer
Iceotope's immersively cooled server racks are now in production, and the company has named its first customer. The University of Leeds, has been using an Iceotope server since December to run computational fluid dynamics models -- and to warm the radiators in one of its laboratories.
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Dell extends data centre networking portfolio
Dell this week extended its data centre networking portfolio with a new top-of-rack switch and plans to extend OpenFlow support for software-defined networking across its product line.
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Intel preparing lasers and light to shuffle data between computers
Intel is taking the first steps to implement thin fibre optics that will use lasers and light as a faster way to move data inside computers, replacing the older and slower electrical wiring technology found in most computers today.
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Facebook pushes a new model for buying servers
Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be adopted.
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New data centre design boasts world's most efficient cooling system
A new kind of data center claiming to employ "the world's most efficient cooling system" turns the traditionally unbearable "hot aisle" between server racks into a rather pleasant air-conditioned hallway, all the while using significantly less energy.
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Facebook to test first innovative Open Compute racks
Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organisations with large data centers will adopt.
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Arup outsources data centre to Vtesse, to cope with growth
More cost-effective than refurbishing existing space
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Facebook open source data centre project gains strength
Facebook's year-old project to develop open source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum on yesterday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs.
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Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2
Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.
