by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Eight years after the federal government launched an effort to streamline and consolidate the operations of its data centers, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) declared the effort a failure. Larry Dignan wrote this report for the Between the Lines blog...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
All the buzz today in networking is about being on the cloud. But for computing on the edge, micro data centers still have a big role to play. Larry Dignan asks the right questions about micro data centers in this report published by ZDNet: Micro data centers are...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
Network outages are increasing but power system failures are not to blame for the great majority of them, according to researchers at the Uptime Institute. The biggest cause of network downtime is the complexity of the enterprise computing environment itself. Ann...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
A local Danish paper, Viborg Stifts Folkeblad, has reported that construction of a new Apple data center in Denmark has been stopped. Sources have indicated that Apple has cut ties with Exyte, the Ireland-based building contractor. Here is an excerpt from a report...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
With its debt refinanced and additional funding on hand, hybrid data center service provider 365 Data Centers is looking to accelerate its already breakneck expansion plans. Apart from add-on equity funding from its original investors, the company announced late March...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
Qualcomm has had much experience designing small form factor low-powered chips for handheld devices. Now it has banked on that expertise to deliver a compact but fast AI-accelerated low-power chip destined for use in huge data centers. Mike Dano writes about...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
Advancing technology crams smaller and smaller transistors into smaller and smaller chips that goes into our handheld devices but the real force transforming the world we live in now happens in huge data centers which can been seen from space. Demand for computing...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
Attacks on data centers are on the rise and the fastest growing share of these incursions are DDoS assaults that overwhelm data centers and force service disruptions. About 40% of those companies that suffered such attacks reported reputation loss as one of their...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
Google’s new security features will not only protect users on its own Google Cloud Platform but in rival platforms like Amazon’s AWS and other private clouds. “The mission here is to build the most trusted cloud,” Michael Aiello, product management...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 22, 2019 | Data Center Management
With the internet of things (IoTs) upon us and 5G looming on the horizon, proponents of edge computing see a coming wave of cybersecurity problems. Having so many more devices at the edge transmitting and receiving information increases the attack surface and...
