Microsoft to Build Fifth, Massive Western US Azure Region

Site plans show at least two giant data center buildings on Microsoft-owned Arizona sites.
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How Twitter Shrunk Its Hadoop Clusters and Their Energy Consumption

Rearchitecting Hadoop clusters to remove a storage bottleneck opened doors for more improvements.
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How Twitter Shrunk Its Hadoop Clusters and Their Energy Consumption

Rearchitecting Hadoop clusters to remove a storage bottleneck opened doors for more improvements.
by Yevgeniy Sverdlik via IT Pro - Microsoft Windows Information, Solutions, Tools

AWS and Volkswagen Plan an Industrial IoT Cloud Platform

Unlike the platform it’s building on Azure, VW’s Amazon platform will focus on optimizing manufacturing.
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Data Center World: Survey Shows Enterprises are Building New Data Centers

As the shift to hybrid cloud rages on, many companies plan data center footprint expansion.
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Is Your Data Center Ready for Machine Learning Hardware?

Ability to cool high-density GPU clusters for machine learning is a new battleground for colo providers.
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Cisco Extends ACI, Its Data Center SDN, to AWS and Azure

ACI integration with the two biggest IaaS clouds is its latest step in pursuing a platform-agnostic strategy.
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Microsoft Is Expanding Its Virginia Data Center Footprint, But Not in Ashburn

Microsoft is expanding its data center campus in Boydton, a town in southern Virginia • The campus hosts one of three availability regions for the company’s Azure cloud in the state • Not counting the latest expansion, Microsoft has invested about $2 billion in the campus, which has been active since 2010, according to a Richmond Times-Dispatch estimate
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Four Data Center Colocation Trends to Watch in 2019

Colo providers expect a surge in enterprise business driven by hybrid cloud and new, modern tools for consuming their services.
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Sweden Gets Its Own AWS Data Centers – Amazon’s First in the Nordics

The cloud giant promises better performance for its “tens of thousands” of customers in the region.
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Third-Party Investigator Says No Evidence of ‘Spy Chips’ on Supermicro Motherboards

The hardware vendor hired an investigations firm to help it mend reputation damaged by allegations of a supply chain breach.
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Why AWS Is Getting into the Satellite Data Business

As more satellites are hurled into space, ground-station access becomes the biggest satellite-data bottleneck.
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AWS Says It’s Never Seen a Whole Data Center Go Down

It’s had plenty of devastating outages, but reportedly never as a result of losing an entire building.
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Amazon Web Services Unveils Custom Machine Learning Inference Chip

Says it designed Inferentia because GPU makers have focused much attention on training but too little on inference
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HPE to Buy Big Data Infrastructure Startup BlueData

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying BlueData, a startup whose software makes deploying infrastructure for big data and machine learning easier for enterprises • HPE’s goal is to create a turnkey big data solution customers can use in their own data centers, in the cloud, or in hybrid scenarios • While promising, big data projects have a notoriously high failure rate inside enterprises, often because of the level of technical complexity involved
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AWS Launches Cloud Instances Powered by Custom Arm Chips

Becomes the first cloud giant to sell Arm servers as a service, although not the first cloud provider to do so.
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Google to Build €600M Data Center in Denmark

Google said it will build its next European data center in western Denmark • It has accelerated data center construction in recent years to support its big cloud expansion • Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have been pouring billions into new cloud data centers nearly every quarter
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MuleSoft-Docker Enterprise Integration Afoot, as Salesforce Invests in Docker

Salesforce’s MuleSoft and Docker are working on a tight integration to help enterprise step into the future.
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Cisco Integrates Its On-Prem Kubernetes Platform With AWS

Networking giant ropes in the biggest of clouds for a hybrid cloud partnership
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Troubled GE’s Digital Unit Cooks Up Private Cloud Version of Predix

GE Digital announced a private cloud version of its industrial IoT cloud platform Predix • The troubled industrial conglomerate is looking to sell at least some parts of its software unit • But the unit’s management said revenue and usage of Predix have been growing and pledged to continue pursuing their roadmap
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