DCK Up to Date: The Data Center Flash Briefing - June 19, 2018

Self-driving software platform developer Renovo has partnered with data center provider EdgeConneX to build edge data centers that will collect and process self-driving car data where the cars spend most of their downtime: at charging stations... Computing hardware maker Lenovo has launched a portfolio of liquid-cooling designs for high-density servers. The Neptune portfolio is a bet that liquid cooling will proliferate beyond its traditional supercomputer niche... Operators of the world’s largest cloud platforms spent an unusually large amount of money on hardware and software those platforms are made of in the first three months of 2018, according to Synergy Research Group, whose new report estimates that these companies – including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google – spent north of $11 billion on servers, storage, networking, operating systems and virtualization software for their cloud infrastructure... For more on these (and many other) stories, visit DataCenterKnowledge dot com.