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Cloud provider Continent 8 has shifted its virtualisation environment to Nutanix from VMware, in a move partly driven by changes to VMware licensing, but also in an infrastructure shift to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and because of influence gained in its ongoing partnership with Nutanix.
The move...
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Nokia has secured a five-year extension of its long-standing agreement to supply routers and switches to Microsoft Azure datacentres worldwide.
The contract will see the Finnish networking company roll out its open source SONiC-based datacentre switches to new and existing Microsoft Azure datacentres.
This is in...
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Renewable energy supplier RWE is tapping into HPE’s private cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies so it can use weather data more efficiently to predict changes in energy supply and demand.
German multi-national RWE is a major developer of renewable energy in the UK, operating a...
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Nvidia has continued to see record growth in its datacentre business, driven by the acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.
The company reported quarterly revenue of $35.1bn, up 17% from Q2 and up 94% from a year ago. Its datacentre business, which provides graphics processing units...
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Digital Catapult claims that encouraging transport and logistics firms to collaborate more and share digital infrastructure could help the sector to collectively cut its carbon emissions and reduce its overall environmental impact.
This finding is based on the results of a successful pilot project overseen by...
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During his keynote presentation at the start of Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference in Chicago, CEO Satya Nadella discussed artificial intelligence (AI) scaling, through which the capabilities of the tech is doubling every six months.
“Just like Moore’s Law, we saw the doubling in performance every 18...
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The AMD-powered El Capitan supercomputer, housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is now ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Built by HPE, the supercomputer uses AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated processing units (APUs). It achieved a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.742 exaflops based on...
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The government is seeking support from artificial intelligence (AI)-focused academics and entrepreneurs to help build clean energy systems and help the UK hit its net zero by 2050 goal.
Interested parties are invited to apply for funding to develop technologies that could decarbonise the UK energy...
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Power usage effectiveness is a metric that evaluates the energy efficiency of data centers worldwide. However, comparing measurements is difficult since factors like a data center's location and server workloads impact PUE readings.
Look further into how to calculate PUE, how data centers benefit from the...
