AMD announced it will acquire ZT Systems for $4.9 billion to enhance its AI infrastructure capabilities. ZT Systems will become part of AMD's existing Data Center Solutions Business Group.
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Windows Server vNext Preview build 25295 is now out on ISO and VHDX and it's available in 18 languages. This build continues development of the next-gen Server Edition, release details inside.
Thes first Windows Server vNext build of the year is out with the typical ISO and its available in 18 languages. Microsoft says the Azure VHDX edition ran into some issues and will be updated later.
Microsoft has announced the general availability of System Center 2022 which will offer hybrid capabilities to standardize management and governance across on-premises and cloud environments.
Users can now expect read speeds as low as 600 micro-seconds. I'm not a scientist, but online calculators seem to indicate light can travel roughly 113 miles every 600 microseconds.
Jesse Natalie, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, is working on adding and improving D3D12 compute support in OpenGL through Mesa and hints that future enhancements are in the pipeline.
Microsoft has unveiled new features for its Azure analytics solutions such as Synapse Analytics and Cosmos DB. The company is also opening a new datacenter region in China to cater increased demand.
The latest datacenter region will be based in Georgia's Fulton and Douglas Counties. This new effort is considered a significant part of Microsoft's recent commitment to growth in the Atlanta region.
Microsoft has announced #DigitalLeapDenmark, a plan that includes building a renewable data centre in the country and providing 200,000 jobs and job training to all ages by the year 2024.
NordVPN has acknowledged that there was a breach of one of its datacenters back in March 2018 and that it has only known about the issue for a few months. Most users were unaffected by the breach.
The new computing center will leverage Tencent's cloud computing capabilities and enable BMW to analyze the large amounts of real-time data that self-driving cars produce from their sensors.
Service Express surveyed more than 450 IT professionals to identify their challenges and priorities in the coming months and came to some insightful conclusions, which you can view, for free.
Company margins are under increasing pressure and data centers are under the microscope due to the high capital cost associated with equipment. Learn how you can cope with this free eBook.
At the Next Horizon event, AMD also took the time to showcase its latest accelerator cards for AI and deep learning workloads. Based on the Vega20 architecture, these will be available on November 18.
Microsoft has signed an agreement with energy provider Sunseap to purchase 100% of the output of the latter's solar power installation. This will be the largest project of its kind in Singapore.
Amazon has done the math to find out there's no faster or cheaper way to move around huge amounts of data, than by using a truck. Enter the Snowmobile, AWS's new mobile datacenter.
Microsoft has promised to improve its energy use, be more transparent and rely on more renewable energy for its datacenters. The company says it will use 50% green energy by 2018.
Google says it accepts full responsibility for the tiny, but permanent, data loss that occurred last week, after the power grid near to one of its European data centers was struck by lightning.
Microsoft is investing and partnering with companies to lay down subsea data cables and connect its worldwide datacenters from Ireland, the UK, the US and Asia with more bandwidth and lower latency.
The iPhone maker has announced the construction of two additional data centers in Europe, both of which will rely on renewable energy and sustainable development.
Microsoft and three partners have been awarded $5m to fund research into fuel cells that, it is hoped, will lead to more energy-efficient datacenters - and many more applications in the wider world.
Tech giants, Microsoft and Apple have reportedly set sights on The Netherlands to construct their data centers and are planning to invest billions to get the infrastructure ready over the coming years
Google has been investing heavily in their datacenters recently, and this last quarter has been no exception with the search giant spending $1.6B in Q2, up from the $1.2B they spent in Q1.
One of the interesting tidbits we heard this week was the fact that Microsoft has been building datacenters in parking lots. Even more interesting? They don't put a roof on the datacenter.
What does Microsoft have planned for the enterprise environment? We'll be traveling to Las Vegas next week to talk with company leaders to find out their vision for the corporate world.
Microsoft has revealed it will sell four versions of its Windows Server 2012 operating system when it becomes available later this fall. However, it won't offer a version of Small Business Server.
Microsoft is about to spend a boat load of cash in Wyoming to build a $112 million dollar data center but what for, remains a mystery.
Hot on the heels of Microsoft announcing their new version of Hyper-V, which is due out with Windows 8, VMware has revealed their latest version of vSphere and is officially launching their "cloud infrastructure suite"...
Two of the industry's largest providers of dedicated servers and hosting services have entered into talks regarding a possible merger. If completed, the merger would make Softlayer CEO Lance Crosby the CEO of the combined...
South Carolina's government has announced that Google plans to invest $600 million in a new datacenter on a 210 hectare site at the Mt. Holly Commerce Park in Berkeley County near Charleston, the land...
As a followup to the previous story, Google has chosen North Carolina for building a new $600 million USD data center facility. The fact that North Carolina previously offered an incentives package for Google that...
Today virtualization is expensive for licensing. Microsoft asks peopleto license every OS installed on virtual machines, even if powered off. But something is changing. Since the release of Windows Server 2003...
Microsoft's enterprise management division is expected to commercialize Microsoft Research's performance-modeling tool. At the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas this week, the Redmond software giant is expected to show off a brand-new management tool....
Microsoft's Windows Datacenter Server has been about more than technology features since its launch in late 2000. Fittingly, the tightly controlled support program that makes Datacenter Server so different from other Microsoft server operating systems...
