DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Max Smolaks, Uptime Institute
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Rigetti raises $79m to spend on quantum chip development
Who knew that quantum hardware could be so beautiful
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Research: More than $2.56 billion worth of Open Compute products were sold in 2018
And that excludes revenue by board members like Facebook, Microsoft and Rackspace
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Lenovo introduces subscription service for data center hardware
Customers can pay for their on-premises infrastructure on a monthly basis
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White House appoints Roger Stone as director of IT
Not that Roger Stone
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Data center analytics vendor Romonet is being acquired by CBRE
Real estate giant is buying software capabilities
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Linux Foundation launches edge computing organization
To create “a software stack that brings the best of telecom, cloud, and enterprise”
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IBM Services to help Juniper with cloud management in a $325m deal
The agreement includes the use of Watson cognitive computing platform
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Toshiba announces 16TB hard drive, 96-layer NAND SSDs
The MG08 is filled with helium, can serve as a drop-in replacement for existing HDDs
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Max Smolaks: Data center year in review
2019 has a lot to make up for
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Packet introduces edge microservers in Open19 racks
The new hardware will be deployed across all of Packet’s cloud and edge facilities
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Research: Data center users don’t value energy efficiency
According to Supermicro, businesses prioritize security, performance and connectivity instead
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DCD Awards 2018: Winners announced
Congratulations to the best and the brightest
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Seagate uses tiny lasers to create world’s first 16TB hard drive
After more than a decade in development, HAMR technology is finally getting ready for the mass market
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Juniper Networks extends integration with Nutanix systems
Switches, firewalls and network management from Juniper + servers and virtualization from Nutanix
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Vertiv and Atman open IT testing lab in Poland
The facility aims to improve overall data center efficiency
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China says it has evidence of DRAM price-fixing conspiracy
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are accused of artificially inflating memory prices
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Oracle Cloud introduces bare metal instances
Hardware from Oracle, without software from Oracle
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Spectra Logic crams two Exabytes of capacity into a single tape library
Using IBM’s new TS1160 drives and cartridges to create world’s largest data storage machine
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Western Digital announces 15TB enterprise hard drive
The company relies on Helium and SMR to create the industry’s highest capacity HDD
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OpenStack Foundation launches software platform for edge computing
StarlingX offers all-in-one toolkit for managing distributed IT
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OVH Summit: European cloud vendor outlines new strategy
Four new product “universes,” three different ways to do cloud computing
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First European OCP experience center opens in Amsterdam
Brainchild of Switch Datacenters, Rittal and Circle B
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Stulz, Cloud&Heat partner on water-cooled micro data centers
Waste heat recovery is now an option for Stulz MicroDC
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OCP Summit: Huawei joins Open Compute Project
Better late than never
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Ampere launches Arm-based CPU for hyperscale workloads
Renee James’ startup reveals its first product
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Scale Computing and APC launch micro data centers in the US
Everything you need for an edge deployment
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Chinese firm plans to turn former US DoD data center into a crypto mine
Industrial equipment specialist Wuhan General Group is diversifying into blockchain
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Pivot3 launches ruggedized HCI appliance for the “tactical edge”
Shock-resistant data center in a box