Geopolitical tensions between the United States, China and Taiwan are forcing significant changes in server manufacturing, according to Asian market research firm TrendForce, which predicts that core parts of the server supply chain will eventually shift to Southeast Asia and…
The 12 biggest tech stories of 2022
By 2022, the tech industry’s vulnerability to the vagaries of geopolitics and macroeconomics will increase as IT giants cut massive layoffs, regulators crack down on tech violators, countries negotiate data privacy, and the EU’s chip war with China expands. It…
Nvidia erobert weiterhin den Markt für Rechenzentren
Nvidia is playing some serious games. When Jensen Huang and his two partners founded Nvidia in 1993, there were many more competitors in the graphics chip market than there were in the CPU market, which only had two. Nvidia’s competitors…
Trends in der Vernetzung von Rechenzentren im Jahr 2023
Hybrid and multi-cloud initiatives will continue to shape enterprise IT in 2023, with impacts on data center networks in key areas such as security, management and operations. Networking teams are investing in technologies like SD-WAN and SASE, expanding automation initiatives,…
Kann Flüssigkeit die Festplatte kühlen?
A joint effort by immersion cooling company Iceotope and Facebook parent company Meta found that cooling hard drives with dielectric liquid is safe and a more efficient way to cool down than using fans. Hyperscalers like Meta deploy thousands of…
Arista expands high-end data center switch family
Arista Networks has a new high-end data center switch as well as several smaller switches designed to provide more configuration and upgrade options to meet the specific needs of each organization. “Different customer use cases and application deployments within a…
Equinix solves high electricity bills?Hotter data centers
Data center giant Equinix has found a low-tech solution to high data center electricity bills: turn up the thermostat. Guidelines from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recommend data center server temperatures ranging from 59°F (15°C)…
Palo Alto Networks looks to strengthen healthcare IoT security
Palo Alto Networks today launched a new healthcare IoT security offering designed to provide better visibility, automated monitoring of hitherto vulnerable healthcare IoT frameworks through machine learning and adherence to Zero Trust principles wait. Medical device security is a serious…
How to make data centers more sustainable
Just a few weeks ago, Gartner analysts said that sustainability and related issues will surpass all strategic technology trends in 2023. This week at its IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies conference, Gartner described how enterprise data centers can make…
Researchers find security vulnerabilities in IBM’s cloud infrastructure
Security researchers recently investigated IBM Cloud’s database-as-a-service infrastructure and discovered several security issues that allowed them to access internal servers used to build database images for customer deployments. The demonstrated attack highlights some common security oversights that can lead to…
Herunterladen unsicherer Artefakte über GitHub-Aktionen
The way the GitHub Actions platform stores build artifacts could allow attackers to inject malicious code into software projects with CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) workflows that do not perform adequate filtering when downloading artifacts. Cybersecurity researchers have identified…
Ist SASE das Richtige für Sie?
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that provides a security-centric alternative to SD-WAN. SASE, first outlined by Gartner in 2019, converges SD-WAN services with a range of security-as-a-service offerings. Gartner now predicts that at least 40% of…