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Microsoft Transfers Risk of Power Prices That Vary With the Wind Microsoft Transfers Risk of Power Prices That Vary With the Wind

Microsoft has helped develop a way to protect corporate buyers of clean power from electricity prices that go up and down with the weather•The company is using a risk-management tool called a volume-firming agreement for almost 500 megawatts of wind projects, through an agreement with the insurance giant Allianz SE•A volume-firming agreement is designed to supplement long-term power-purchase deals by passing weather-related risk to another party, such as an insurance company

Oct 16, 2018

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Microsoft's Peace Treaty With the 'Linux System'Microsoft's Peace Treaty With the 'Linux System'

byChristine Hall

Oct 16, 2018

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IBM stand at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona

IBM Wants its Cloud Services to Play Nice With Competitors IBM Wants its Cloud Services to Play Nice With Competitors

Oct 16, 2018

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Infomart Portland

Former Cologix COO Brian Cox Named Infomart CEO Former Cologix COO Brian Cox Named Infomart CEO

byYevgeniy Sverdlik

Oct 16, 2018

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A monitor displays the day's numbers before the closing bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), October 11, 2018 in New York City.

Why the Selloff Can Be a Data Center Stocks Buying Opportunity Why the Selloff Can Be a Data Center Stocks Buying Opportunity

Oct 15, 2018

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Activist Icahn Blasts Dell Plan to Return to Public Markets Activist Icahn Blasts Dell Plan to Return to Public Markets

Oct 15, 2018

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Julian Assange, founder and former editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks

Next-Gen Data Centers

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: October 12, 2018

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: October 12, 2018

byData Center Knowledge

Scott Guthrie, executive VP of Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft

Next-Gen Data Centers

Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: September 2018

Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: September 2018

byData Center Knowledge

Lightning storm in Las Vegas in 2016

Uptime Institute Rings Climate Change Warning Bell for Data Center Operators

Uptime Institute Rings Climate Change Warning Bell for Data Center Operators

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Former Editor-in-Chief

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Amazon Is Said to Get $1 Billion in Deals With SAP, Symantec

Amazon Is Said to Get $1 Billion in Deals With SAP, Symantec

Julian Assange, founder and former editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks Publishes What It Says Is a List of Amazon Data Centers

WikiLeaks Publishes What It Says Is a List of Amazon Data Centers

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Former Editor-in-Chief

Kubernetes

Cloud Foundry Goes All-In With Kubernetes

Cloud Foundry Goes All-In With Kubernetes

byChristine Hall

DUG uses its proprietary immersion cooling system to keep its supercomputers cool.

Skybox to Build Houston Data Center for Massive Oil and Gas Supercomputer

Skybox to Build Houston Data Center for Massive Oil and Gas Supercomputer

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Former Editor-in-Chief

Cloud Data Warehouse Unicorn Snowflake Raises $450M in Its Second Round This Year

Cloud Data Warehouse Unicorn Snowflake Raises $450M in Its Second Round This Year

Cloud Data Warehouse Unicorn Snowflake Raises $450M in Its Second Round This Year

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Former Editor-in-Chief

Not Your Father’s Immersion Cooling

Not Your Father’s Immersion Cooling

byIndustry Perspectives

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Data Center Chips

NSA Cyber Official Asks for First-Hand Accounts of Chip Hacking

NSA Cyber Official Asks for First-Hand Accounts of Chip Hacking

Huawei at CES 2018 in Las Vegas

Data Center Chips

China's Huawei Takes Aim at Qualcomm, Nvidia With New AI Chips

China's Huawei Takes Aim at Qualcomm, Nvidia With New AI Chips

Environmental Monitoring and Management Systems

Data Center Infrastructure Management

Environmental Monitoring and Management Systems

Environmental Monitoring and Management Systems

byData Center Knowledge

"Halo" displayed during the Microsoft Xbox E3 press conference in 2015 in Los Angeles

How Do You Play 'Halo' on a Phone? Stream It From an Azure Data Center Nearby

How Do You Play 'Halo' on a Phone? Stream It From an Azure Data Center Nearby

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Former Editor-in-Chief

Motherboard

Data Center Hardware

Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom

Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom

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Open Source Software

When Linux Founder Linus Torvalds Leaves, Pandemonium Breaks Loose

When Linux Founder Linus Torvalds Leaves, Pandemonium Breaks Loose

byChristine Hall

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AI Data Centers

AdeptDC Wants to Use Machine Learning to Prevent Data Center Outages

AdeptDC Wants to Use Machine Learning to Prevent Data Center Outages

byMary Branscombe

Four Keys to Unlocking Cloud Data Management

Four Keys to Unlocking Cloud Data Management

byIndustry Perspectives

Rendering of the future Apple data center in Waukee, Iowa

Security & Risk Management

US Agency Backs Tech Firms Denying China Hacked Their Systems

US Agency Backs Tech Firms Denying China Hacked Their Systems

Data

Ceph-Based Storage Holds Efficiency Promise

Ceph-Based Storage Holds Efficiency Promise

byData Center Knowledge

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Archived Assets

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: October 6, 2018

Top 5 Data Center Stories of the Week: October 6, 2018

byData Center Knowledge

Colocation Case Study - Craft Brewery

Colocation Case Study - Craft Brewery

Colocation Case Study - Craft Brewery

byData Center Knowledge

Hortonworks founders

Cloudera and Hortonworks to Merge and Roll Out End-to-End Data Platform

Cloudera and Hortonworks to Merge and Roll Out End-to-End Data Platform

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Former Editor-in-Chief

The Pentagon

Data Center Chips

China Spy Chips Report Adds Pressure on Pentagon Cloud Security

China Spy Chips Report Adds Pressure on Pentagon Cloud Security

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Data Center Chips

AWS, Apple, Supermicro Attack Bloomberg’s Spy Chip Report

AWS, Apple, Supermicro Attack Bloomberg’s Spy Chip Report

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Former Editor-in-Chief

Energy & Power Supply

Boosting UPS Performance with Lithium-ion Technology

Boosting UPS Performance with Lithium-ion Technology

byIndustry Perspectives

BT Is Worried Apple and Amazon Will Take Its Customers

BT Is Worried Apple and Amazon Will Take Its Customers

Network cables

Comparing Data Center SDN Tech: VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, and Open SDN Options

Comparing Data Center SDN Tech: VMware NSX, Cisco ACI, and Open SDN Options

byBill Kleyman, CEO and Co-Founder

An employee walks past servers in the Facebook data center in Forest City, North Carolina.

Work in Tech: How to Get a Data Center Job at Facebook

Work in Tech: How to Get a Data Center Job at Facebook

byYevgeniy Sverdlik, Former Editor-in-Chief

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Strategies to Enabling the Hybrid Cloud

Strategies to Enabling the Hybrid Cloud

byData Center Knowledge

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