tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280206022026-02-21T06:44:54.527-06:00News, links and musings on the Data Center industry - by John RathJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16368531202668353479noreply@blogger.comBlogger586125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28020602.post-14244406712712540942023-01-31T11:19:00.004-06:002023-01-31T11:19:52.461-06:00

 I am going to try doing a Substack...digitalinfrastructure.substack.comCome take a look.....  be viewer #5!  :)P.S.: I'm also going to try this: www.youtube.com/@digitalinfrastructure365

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 I’m back! I think. I’ve wanted to start writing again on this blog for a while now - but just haven’t had (ok, found) the time. I guess 1,686 days is enough. The data center industry has certainly changed since I started this blog in 2006. As I think about how I want to return to writing, my intention is to zoom out a little and cover the entire ecosystem that data centers are a key

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting - semiconductor edition: Arm launches Trillium to bring ML to edge devices.  Arm announced Project Trillium, a suite of Arm intellectual property including new highly scalable processors that will deliver enhanced machine learning (ML) and neural network functionality. With a focus on scalability Trillium will cover mobile processors

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OneNeck IT Solutions announced a U.S. Patent for a "Temperature-Humidity Monitoring Assembly for Closed Server Cabinet".  Attaching on the inside of a data center cabinet door the patented sensor is fully controlled from outside of the cabinet and a motor and belt-driven rail assmbly unit incrementally raises the sensor until it reaches the top of the cabinet.  After the process is

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Intel's Industrial-Scale data center. Seeking Alpha has a really interesting article on how Intel has revealed a lot of patent applications recently - around its data center vision: with persistent memory and 'sled architectures'. "The architecture is centered on disaggregated processor, memory and storage, all connected by photonics."

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: NVIDIA and Amazon Simplify Machine Learning.  Amazon and NVIDIA announced new Machine Learning software stacks in the NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC), and a new 8 Volta GPU EC2 instance.  IBM's Blockchain solution for global payments.  IBM announced a new blockchain banking solution that will, with partners Stellar.org and

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Toshiba sells Flash Memory Chip Unit for $18 Billion.  The bidding seems to be over, as Bloomberg reports that a group led by Bain Capital has acquired the chip unit from Toshiba for 2 trillion yen ($18 billion). The Bain consortium includes backing from Toshiba, as well as Japanese and other overseas companies. It was noted that

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Apple to build data center in Iowa.  The Des Moines Register reports that Apple will build a data center in Waukee, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines. Following large data center builds from Microsoft and Facebook in the Des Moines area, and Google in Council Bluffs, Apple will fulfill project 'Morgan' in a newly annexed portion of

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Primary Data announced a $40 million funding round and released version 2.0 of its DataSphere software platform. After receiving an initial $50 million in 2013 the company will use the new funds to continue build out its sales team and business. The $40 million funding was split between $20 million led by Pelion Ventures and a $20 million line of credit. DataSphere is the company's enterprise

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: FORTRUST acquired by Iron Mountain.  For approximately $128 million Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) has acquired Denver data center business FORTRUST. Iron Mountain president and CEO William L. Meaney said, “We continue to see opportunities to expand our business through strong organic growth, new development and acquisition. Together

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Between company conference season and a lot of M&A activity recently, it is hard to keep up with the news.  Here are a few things I found interesting: Facebook breaks ground on 1M sq ft Altoona data center.  Because Iowa is the best place for data centers.... Facebook broke ground on its fourth building in Altoona - a 1 million square foot data center. With this building the

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Shaw explores selling ViaWest: Sources 'familiar with the matter' say that Canadian cable company Shaw Communications is exploring options for selling ViaWest. Shaw bought ViaWest three years ago for $1.2 billion. Amazon Strategy Teardown.  CB Insights has an amazing, detailed analysis of strategy at Amazon.  Company history,

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Megaport launches Exchange. Elastic interconnectivity and global SDN company Megaport launched its Megaport Exchange, a marketplace "designed to connect our rich Ecosystem of providers to our global network of customers." The relatively young Australian company has built a network of 150 global locations, and the marketplace connects

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: C3 IoT updates platform, adds machine learning, closes new financing. It was a big week for enterprise Internet of Things company C3 IoT. The company announced "Version 7 of its enterprise software platform for big data, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, with new tools and

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Cisco to acquire AppDynamics.  Cisco announced its intent to acquire Application Intelligence software provider AppDynamics for $3.7 billion. AppDynamics was on the cusp of filing an IPO when Cisco scooped them up for almost twice their value. Cisco saysIAAS  that AppDynamics CEO David Wadhwani will continue lead the new

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Inside Amazon Hyperscale.  I am a little behind - but catching up on watching AWS re:Invent talks from the event last month. I think the world of AWS VP James Hamilton, and his talk at the event about the inner workings of AWS data center operations is absolutely fascinating. Putting the hyper in hyperscale, James talks about all

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Equinix buys Verizon data centers.  I 'think' I saw this one coming... but the biggest player in the industry just got bigger.  Just 5 years after Verizon paid $1.4 billion to acquire Terremark, it has sold 24 data centers to Equinix for $3.6 billion. It seems hard to top this asset sale, but I guess we'll see what 2017 brings

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Green500 List of energy-efficient supercomputers. Almost as fun as the Top500 list itself. The Green500 ranks supercomputers by how energy-efficient they are. NVIDIA Corporation took the top spot with 9,462.09 MFLOPS per Watt with their DGX-1 system, using their P100 Tesla GPUs.  Spray-on concrete for EMP shielding.  This

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: NCSA to lead $110 million NSF project. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $110 million award to NCSA at the University of Illinois at Ubana-Champaign and 18 partner institutions to continue, and expand, the activities undertaken through cyberinfrastructure ecosystem XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery).

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Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: VMWORLD.  VMware's annual event in Las Vegas this week.  I really wanted to attend - but just couldn't ; it looks like an eventful week. Lots of news releases, conversations and partner announcements. VMworld videos can be found on their vmworld TV channel. Dell to continue M&A. The now closed $67B deal for EMC just

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Data Center Links for 8/23/2016. Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting: Avere and Cycle Computing integrate for hybrid HPC in the cloud.  Avere Systems and Cycle Computing announced a technology integration that enables hybrid high performance computing in popular public cloud computing environments. By combining the CycleCloud with Avere's vFXT Edge filer users can

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Ever have a 4 year battle with writer's block?  Well, I'm back...I think. I started this blog 10 years ago as a way to keep track of the endless links I logged in browsing and reading about data centers. A lot has happened since I last blogged... but I don't see any benefit to attempting to catch up here. I think my main goal going forward in this blog is just to keep a transcript of

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Back in 2010 I was considering a post to entice Microsoft to build a data center in Iowa.  At that time Iowa was in the running, but the decision had not yet been made. This was the Microsoft and Google build-out era of the mega data centers, similar to the Facebook and Apple story of recent years. As I started to write the 2010 post, Microsoft announced that they had decided on West Des

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The headlines have picked up once again for a possible Wednesday filing for Facebook's IPO. Expected in May, the IPO could raise around $10 Billion and place a stock market value on Facebook as high as $100 Billion. With Facebook already being watched closely for their supposed 800+ million assets (users) and potential value per user, their IPO will be heavily scrutinized. It's hard to believe

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Now that all of the 2011 reviews and 2012 prediction stories are out I am finally getting around to my year-end review. I just didn't quite make it to post by the end of 2011.  Regardless, I have a number of items I wanted to cover as a means of reflecting on the year, data center stories, statistics and other musings. I don't spend a great deal of time in my Google Analytics for this

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