Every 10 years or so, the data center stares down the next big abstraction that inspires exciting new server operating system form factors. As Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady says in The Road to ...

Each ZTE container module handles both general-purpose and AI computing with air or liquid cooling, offering flexibility for ...

In software-defined data centers, software networking can help container environments talk to each other and maintain network policies without needing admins to respond to each change.

Data Centers: From Shipping Containers to Tents. By Nancy Gohring. Sep 22, 2008 1:30 pm PDT. You’ve heard about data centers in shipping containers. But how about a data center in a tent?

The container-based model, which is still in its infancy, allows companies of all sizes to locate their data centers anywhere there is power, cooling and a network connection.

An announcement today by three companies—semiconductor vendor Fulcrum Microsystems, 10G Ethernet switch vendor Arista Networks, and network test vendor Ixia—serves to illustrate the ferment bubbling ...

Its universal models will allow for the use of standard racks, accommodating a much wider range of server and storage equipment SGI is making some big changes to its Ice Cube family of ...

In the same way containers changed the shipping industry, today’s container technology is changing how businesses deploy and use applications in the data center and the public cloud.

APC by Schneider Electric on Monday announced an expanded relationship with IBM to offer an IBM Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC) container version based on APC’s InfraStruxure architecture ...

Interest in modular data centers is growing, fueled by high-profile endorsements from Microsoft and Google. But the model raises new management concerns, and efficiency claims may be exaggerated ...

Microsoft installed a data center underwater off of Scotland in 2018 to see what would happen. ... ten feet by seven feet container. Inside, the data center had computing power equivalent to 300 PCs.

Containers are a developer insurgency – barbarians at the gate for data center operators. Shadow IT was the first iteration of this insurgency, where taking weeks to get a virtual machine provisioned ...