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Data centers in space

CIO

Imagine a world in which data centers were deployed in space. Using a satellite networking system, data would be collected from Earth, then sent to space for processing and storage. The system would use photonics and optical technology, dramatically cutting down on power consumption and boosting data transmission speeds.

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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization

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We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”

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AMD to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for $2B

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AMD is in the chip business, and a big part of that these days involves operating in data centers at an enormous scale. AMD announced today that it intends to acquire data center optimization startup Pensando for approximately $1.9 Jain will join the data center solutions group at AMD when the deal closes.

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Why Internet Performance Monitoring is the new frontier in a distributed world

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Moreover, with users spread across the globe, understanding regional performance variations has become crucial to ensuring experiences for your customers and employees. Given this backdrop, it’s unsurprising that traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) tools are struggling to keep pace.

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech

TechCrunch

Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs , and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s been made to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Later, the companies jointly deployed 160 megawatts of two-phase immersion-cooled data centers.

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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

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Finding the answer to the world’s most pressing issues rests on one crucial capability: high performance computing (HPC). Ensuring infrastructure is consolidated and set up for optimal performance is a key lever to accelerating sustainability initiatives. At Durham University, this principle is fundamental to providing HPC resources.

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ODC-Noord: The Netherland’s northernmost government data center is committed to a zero carbon future

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One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. One of the provided services is the high availability and performance of the VMware based vCloud platform. “We