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The CyberSecure Monitoring solution by SolarEdge is among the world’s first integrated hardware-based cloud monitoring solutions for critical power infrastructure.
Cloud operators, including enterprises, cloud service providers, and communication service providers, now have a solution that enables them to evolve smoothly to a new cloud networking architecture and realize enhanced security, dramatically reduced complexity, lower total cost, and increased agility to safely accelerate their businesses at cloud speed.
Many organizations learn the hard way that, for all of the cloud’s great benefits, use that is not optimized typically leads to runaway costs for the unprepared.
Companies looking to maintain their competitive advantage and improve the quality of manufacturing activities should migrate their operations to the cloud and reap the benefits: better scalability, quicker turnaround times, increased revenues, and cost savings, among others.
Is it possible the public cloud isn't the be-all and end-all solution it claims to be?
The acceleration of digital transformation caused by the pandemic will continue for at least the next couple of years. Rapid and often continuous data center retooling is expected as businesses rely on and respond to the above trends to meet their evolving customer, employee, and partner needs.
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Originally announced in February 2015, Apple is giving up on trying to build the new facility.
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The town of Athenry was at one point set to be home to Apple's next $1 billion data center, but after three years of trying to build it, Apple has given up and will go elsewhere.
As Reuters reports, plans for an Athenry data center were first announced in February 2015. The location was chosen mainly because of easy access to green energy, but what Apple didn't expect was the delays due to appeals by locals not to allow it to be built.
It was argued that the data center would have a negative impact on local animal populations, increased the chances of local flooding, and the proximity of the site to a nuclear power plant was also used in an attempt to thwart Apple's planned construction. It worked, as Apple is now walking away.
The high-end discrete graphics cards will reportedly target the PC gaming market and data centers, putting pressure on AMD and Nvidia. Intel hired a former AMD exec to lead the effort.
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Intel plans to release its first discrete GPUs in 2020, the chip maker said in a Tuesday tweet.
"Our plan is to introduce high-end discrete graphics solutions for a broad range of computing segments, including both the client and datacenter businesses," Intel added in a statement.
According to MarketWatch, the new GPUs will also target gaming, a market AMD and Nvidia have long dominated with their Radeon and GeForce products, respectively.
Microsoft realizes you can use the sea as a giant heatsink and save a small fortune in cooling costs.
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Data centers consume a lot of energy and produce a lot of heat from all those servers running 24/7. Energy consumption costs can be cut by using ever more efficient hardware, but also by tapping into renewable energy sources. Heat is a more difficult problem, though. Microsoft's latest idea to deal with it is by placing a data center on the sea floor near Orkney.
As the BBC reports, this experimental data center is called Project Natick and takes the form of a sealed cylinder packed full of 12 racks of servers. Because it's sealed, Microsoft sucked all the oxygen and water vapor out of the atmosphere inside, therefore reducing the chances of corrosion. A power and data link is maintained using an undersea cable hooked up to the cylinder and feeding back to Orkney.
Microsoft has been working on a subsea data center for a few years now. Orkney is actually Phase 2 of the project, with Phase 1 taking place off the coast of California back in 2016.
The access was being sold on a Russian-language marketplace. The affected airport system was available on the open internet and may have been secured with a weak password.
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What can $10 buy you in a hacker marketplace? How about remote access to a major international airport.
A Russian-language site has been selling access to thousands of hacked computers, one of which connected to a US airport's security and building automation systems, according to new research.
The sale was noticed by cybersecurity firm McAfee, which has been investigating underground marketplaces that specialize in selling remote access to compromised servers.
While it won't be ready until 2022, it will create hundreds of jobs, run on 100 percent renewable energy, and be the first data center to take advantage of a new StatePoint Liquid Cooling system that promises a 50 percent reduction in water use.
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Facebook announced today that it has decided the location for the company's first data center in Asia will be Singapore.
A number of factors helped Facebook decide, not least of which was the World Bank's recent naming of Singapore as the "number-one country in Asia to do business." But what really grabbed the social network's attention was the mix of robust infrastructure, existing communication lines, the local workforce, and help from both the Singapore Economic Development Board and the Jurong Town Corporation to make the project happen.
The end result is a 170,000 square-meter (1.8 million square feet) facility spread across 11 stories and built by Fortis Construction Inc. The investment required amounts to just over $1 billion and will in the process create hundreds of new jobs, not just during construction, but once the facility is operational.
Bloomberg says People's Liberation Army operatives added tiny, nefarious microchips to server motherboards made by Super Micro and used by Apple and Amazon, among others. All three companies pushed back hard on the story.
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UPDATE 5 p.m. ET: Apple, Amazon, and Super Micro have all released scathing statements today refuting Bloomberg's article.
"There are so many inaccuracies in this article as it relates to Amazon that they're hard to count," Amazon Chief Information Security Officer Steve Schmidt wrote in a Thursday blog post. "We never found modified hardware or malicious chips in servers in any of our data centers."
Claims that Amazon sold its Chinese server business due to the purported infection are "absurd," he added.
Intel's domination will continue as Qualcomm is set to quit after just seven months of trying.
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Back in early November last year, Qualcomm announced the world's first 10nm server processor family called the Centriq 2400. It was the culmination of four years "intense design, development and ecosystem enablement effort." However, less than seven months on, Qualcomm's presence in the datacenter looks set to end.
As Bloomberg reports, Qualcomm is thought to be planning an exit from the server chip market. Two options are being considered: shut down the server chip division of the company, or sell the division for someone else to take on and continue developer ARM-based server chips for the datacenter.
For now, Qualcomm isn't commenting, but seven month is not that long to decide whether a market is viable. That may be a sign of Intel's dominance, but only last month Qualcomm's CEO, Steve Mollenkopf, stated in the company's earnings report that spending was set to be reduced in "non-core product areas." Server chips clearly counts as one of those areas.
Only a few vendors are the best for routing your internet signals and storing your files at the office. Here are PCMag readers' top picks.
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The average office computer jockey doesn't have a clue where that sweet, sweet interweb connection is coming from, but IT knows all about it. And those folks pick the routers and servers (and sometimes network-attached storage devices) to hold all the important data stored in the business.
That brings us to this year's Business Choice Awards for work routers and servers. Without them, we'd all be storing data on our hard drives and probably still using dial-up connections. These Business Choice results focus on the workplace, from SOHO (small office, home office) to SMBs (small-to-medium businesses) to enterprises. We asked admins and IT folks to share their favorites; below are the brands any biz would be happy to buy.
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The Dell PowerEdge T30 is back at $299, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X is just $382, and the 55-inch LG B8 OLED 4K TV is only $1,047.
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Heads up, bargain hunters: Some popular deals are back for a very limited time. The Dell PowerEdge T30 is back at $299 and the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X is just $382. These two deals probably won't last long, so take advantage of them now. Also, the 55-inch LG B8 OLED 4K TV is only $1,047 and comes with a $250 Dell gift card. Check out those great deals and more below.
Dell PowerEdge T30 Intel Xeon E3-1225v5 Quad-Core Mini Tower Server for $299 at Dell (use code: 299SERVER - list price $788)Check out more deals from TechBargains.
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Dell has some Doorbuster Deals that will not last long. Also, the Instant Pot DUO60 is back at $49.99. Plus, Prime members can grab a Ring Video Doorbell Pro and Echo Dot for $169.
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Act quick, bargain hunters: Dell has some Doorbuster Deals that will not last long. Also, the popular Instant Pot DUO60 is back at the all-time low price of $49.99. Plus, Prime members can grab a Ring Video Doorbell Pro and Echo Dot for $169. Check out those deals and more below.
Dell PowerEdge T30 Intel Xeon E3-1225v5 Quad-Core Mini Tower Server for $299 at Dell (list price $797)Check out more deals from TechBargains.
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