A common dilemma facing many companies that have a ton of gear in their data centers is having to figure out which hardware appliance is causing bottlenecks that may cause downtime… Read more »
Though DIY and hyper-convergence are two contrasting ways to deal with data growth and storage limitations, each has its merits and both can coexist in the same data center. Read more »
The world’s largest internet companies are turning to clean power to run their data centers like never before. This month we saw huge clean power deals from Apple, including big solar projects… Read more »
Due to agility needs, budget constraints, and compliance mandates, smaller enterprises now have the same need for software-defined principles used the world’s largest webscale data centers. Read more »
Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the form of a top-of-rack switch called “Wedge.” On Wednesday,… Read more »
Google just finished off another record-setting quarter and year for infrastructure spending, according to the company’s earnings report released last week. The web giant spent more than $3.5 billion on “real… Read more »
Earlier this month, Facebook announced a new data center networking architecture that it calls, fittingly, “data center fabric.” We had Facebook Director of Network Engineering Najam Ahmad on the Structure Show… Read more »
Enterprises can use data centers and cloud computing together to meet the infrastructure needs of emerging applications and new requirements. Read more »
Facebook detailed on Friday a new networking technology dubbed Data Center Fabric that coordinates all of the information flowing throughout its new data center in Altoona, Iowa. The Altoona facility is… Read more »
Technology entrepreneurs and investors alike have long regarded commoditization as a dark and dangerous force, a destroyer of high-margin businesses, to be avoided at all costs. An exciting new class of… Read more »