Data Center - News, Features, and Slideshows

• NEXTDC opens Perth ‘microsite’ ahead of P2 data centre launch

  NEXTDC has launched what it describes as its first edge data centre, located within the site of its under-development 20-megawatt P2 facility.

• Why data centres are the new frontier in the fight against climate change

  As a growing number of organisations seek to become major players in today’s data-driven economy, the data centre remains one of the most important pieces of business infrastructure.

• NT government awards contract for secondary data centre

  Area9 has been awarded a major Northern Territory government IT contract, with the company tasked with delivering a backup data centre for the NT over the next decade.

• ASX upgrades co-lo data centre to support power-hungry FPGAs

  The Australian Securities Exchange has officially launched new high-density pods at its Tier III co-location data centre.

• Data centre ownership faces heightened scrutiny from government

  The federal government’s Digital Transformation Agency plans to develop a new certification framework that will assess the risk presented by hosting providers that handle government data.

• How to script: A Bash crash course

  An easy step-by-step guide to the Bash command-line shell and shell scripting

• The top 10 supercomputers in the world, 20 years ago

  In 1995, the top-grossing film in the U.S. was Batman Forever. (Val Kilmer as Batman, Jim Carrey as the Riddler, Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face. Yeah.) The L.A. Rams were moving back to St. Louis, and Michael Jordan was moving back to the Bulls. Violence was rife in the Balkans. The O.J. trial happened.

• Tech Media Watch: HBO's "Silicon Valley" set to wrap 2nd season – it won't be "Game Of Thrones"-esque but it'll do

  The far-and-away best satire of the technology industry on TV airs the last episode of its second season Sunday night, and you really should be watching. <em>Silicon Valley</em> has continued to bring the funny throughout the second set of episodes, and the finale looks like it's leading up to a fairly insane climax.

• Top distributed computing projects still hard at work fighting the world's worst health issues

  This past fall saw the worst Ebola outbreak ever ravage western Africa, and while medical researchers are trying to find a drug to treat or prevent the disease, the process is long and complicated. That's because you don't just snap your fingers and produce a drug with a virus like Ebola.

• Will network disaggregation play in the enterprise?

  Disaggregation seems to be all the rage in networking these days.

• Debunking the myths about scale-up architectures

  <em>This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.</em>

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