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Fall 2015 Server Storage I/O Cloud Virtual Seminars Going Dutch

Storage IO Blog

It’s that time of the year again where the fall 2015 events and activities are underway which also includes a week of sessions in Holland October 13-16.

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Microsoft’s underwater server experiment resurfaces after two years

The Verge

Back in 2018, Microsoft sunk an entire data center to the bottom of the Scottish sea, plunging 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage 117 feet deep in the ocean. On land, data centers run into issues like corrosion from oxygen and humidity and controlling shifts in temperatures. Photo: Microsoft.

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Dell: Privately owned PC and server maker

CTOvision

We still see Dell frequently in the enterprise IT space and know all technologists have familiarity with what they can do in servers and the data center. One area of particular note is how they are innovating in micro-data centers, including servers in storage containers. More on that later.

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Coldest Data Center in the World – Ice Cube Lab

Galido

Negative 40 degrees… So cold, they have to heat the air used to cool the data center. The Ice Cube Lab data center has over 1,200 computing cores and three petabytes of storage and tethered to the IceCube Observatory, a neutrino detector with strings of optical sensors buried a kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud networking comprises three layers: first from on-premises data centers to the cloud, then within a cloud that has multiple accounts or virtual private clouds, and finally, between individual clouds in a multicloud environment. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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Fountainhead: The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail. Although Im not a Big Data aficionado, Id recently been struck by a few statistics from the IDC Digital Universe study: It is estimated that in 2011, 1.8 And by 2015, that number may grow to 7.9

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Schrier’s Technology Wish List for 2015

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Jeff Bezos of Amazon – along with a number of other technology leaders – believes that very few private companies and governments will operate their own data centers in the future. And AWS has won notable contracts, such as the contract to operate the CIA’s data center. Or they were the next thing hot thing in 2010.