Neowin News Feed for: Datacenter

Microsoft's massive $7B Wisconsin investment unlocks new AI innovation hub

Paul Hill — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:16:01 +0000

Microsoft is making a massive, multi-billion dollar bet on Wisconsin as a global hub for AI innovation. Its two new data centers will train next-gen models to unlock more scientific discoveries. Read more...

AMD to acquire ZT Systems to accelerate the deployment of AMD-powered AI infrastructure

Pradeep Viswanathan — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:30:01 +0000

AMD announced it will acquire ZT Systems for $4.9 billion to enhance its AI infrastructure capabilities. ZT Systems will become part of AMD's existing Data Center Solutions Business Group. Read more...

Windows Server vNext build 25295 Preview download available in ISO and VHDX

Steven Parker — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:27:07 +0000

Windows Server vNext Preview build 25295 is now out on ISO and VHDX and it's available in 18 languages. This build continues development of the next-gen Server Edition, release details inside. Read more...

Latest Windows Server vNext build 25276 out in 18 languages with ISOs

Steven Parker — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:24:46 +0000

Thes first Windows Server vNext build of the year is out with the typical ISO and its available in 18 languages. Microsoft says the Azure VHDX edition ran into some issues and will be updated later. Read more...

Microsoft announces general availability of System Center 2022

Fiza Ali — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:40:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the general availability of System Center 2022 which will offer hybrid capabilities to standardize management and governance across on-premises and cloud environments. Read more...

Amazon now serves files at sub-millisecond speeds

Dean Howell — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:12:01 +0000

Users can now expect read speeds as low as 600 micro-seconds. I'm not a scientist, but online calculators seem to indicate light can travel roughly 113 miles every 600 microseconds. Read more...

DirectX 12 support is infiltrating Linux under the radar

Dean Howell — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:02:01 +0000

Jesse Natalie, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, is working on adding and improving D3D12 compute support in OpenGL through Mesa and hints that future enhancements are in the pipeline. Read more...

Microsoft is opening a new datacenter region in China

Usama Jawad — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 14:00:09 +0000

Microsoft has unveiled new features for its Azure analytics solutions such as Synapse Analytics and Cosmos DB. The company is also opening a new datacenter region in China to cater increased demand. Read more...

Microsoft announces new U.S. datacenter region

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:42:01 +0000

The latest datacenter region will be based in Georgia's Fulton and Douglas Counties. This new effort is considered a significant part of Microsoft's recent commitment to growth in the Atlanta region. Read more...

Microsoft plans renewable Danish data centre and 200,000 jobs

Paul Hill — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 22:44:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced #DigitalLeapDenmark, a plan that includes building a renewable data centre in the country and providing 200,000 jobs and job training to all ages by the year 2024. Read more...

NordVPN admits it was compromised last year, plans external audit

Paul Hill — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 08:42:01 +0000

NordVPN has acknowledged that there was a breach of one of its datacenters back in March 2018 and that it has only known about the issue for a few months. Most users were unaffected by the breach. Read more...

BMW teams up with Tencent to build computing center in China for autonomous vehicles

Stergios Georgopoulos — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:38:01 +0000

The new computing center will leverage Tencent's cloud computing capabilities and enable BMW to analyze the large amounts of real-time data that self-driving cars produce from their sensors. Read more...

Free Survey Report: Data Center Strategies and the Outlook for the Future

News Staff — Sun, 12 May 2019 17:46:01 +0000

Service Express surveyed more than 450 IT professionals to identify their challenges and priorities in the coming months and came to some insightful conclusions, which you can view, for free. Read more...

5 ways realtime data can help your DC save money and avoid disasters - free eBook

News Staff — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 18:00:01 +0000

Company margins are under increasing pressure and data centers are under the microscope due to the high capital cost associated with equipment. Learn how you can cope with this free eBook. Read more...

AMD announces world's first 7nm compute cards, the Radeon Instinct MI50 and MI60

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:14:01 +0000

At the Next Horizon event, AMD also took the time to showcase its latest accelerator cards for AI and deep learning workloads. Based on the Vega20 architecture, these will be available on November 18. Read more...

Microsoft, Sunseap sign 20-year solar power agreement in Singapore

Florin Bodnarescu — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:44:02 +0000

Microsoft has signed an agreement with energy provider Sunseap to purchase 100% of the output of the latter's solar power installation. This will be the largest project of its kind in Singapore. Read more...

Amazon unveils Snowmobile: A large truck that will drive your data up to the cloud

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:46:01 +0000

Amazon has done the math to find out there's no faster or cheaper way to move around huge amounts of data, than by using a truck. Enter the Snowmobile, AWS's new mobile datacenter. Read more...

It's not easy being green, but Microsoft promises to use 50% renewable energy by 2018

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:42:01 +0000

Microsoft has promised to improve its energy use, be more transparent and rely on more renewable energy for its datacenters. The company says it will use 50% green energy by 2018. Read more...

Lightning strike near Google data center permanently wipes 0.000001% of user data

Andy Weir — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:06:01 +0000

Google says it accepts full responsibility for the tiny, but permanent, data loss that occurred last week, after the power grid near to one of its European data centers was struck by lightning. Read more...

Microsoft invests in underwater data cables; connects its worldwide datacenters

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 12 May 2015 09:08:01 +0000

Microsoft is investing and partnering with companies to lay down subsea data cables and connect its worldwide datacenters from Ireland, the UK, the US and Asia with more bandwidth and lower latency. Read more...

Apple invests almost $2 billion in green European datacenters

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:28:01 +0000

The iPhone maker has announced the construction of two additional data centers in Europe, both of which will rely on renewable energy and sustainable development. Read more...

Microsoft and partners awarded $5m for datacenter fuel cell research

Andy Weir — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:35:12 +0000

Microsoft and three partners have been awarded $5m to fund research into fuel cells that, it is hoped, will lead to more energy-efficient datacenters - and many more applications in the wider world. Read more...

Microsoft, Apple looking to set up data centers in The Netherlands

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:04:14 +0000

Tech giants, Microsoft and Apple have reportedly set sights on The Netherlands to construct their data centers and are planning to invest billions to get the infrastructure ready over the coming years Read more...

Google's datacenter spending spree continues: $1.6B in Q2

Christopher White — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:18:27 +0000

Google has been investing heavily in their datacenters recently, and this last quarter has been no exception with the search giant spending $1.6B in Q2, up from the $1.2B they spent in Q1. Read more...

Above us only sky... Microsoft tells us about its roofless datacenters

Christopher White — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:34:27 +0000

One of the interesting tidbits we heard this week was the fact that Microsoft has been building datacenters in parking lots. Even more interesting? They don't put a roof on the datacenter. Read more...

Microsoft Management Summit: desktop, datacenter, and cloud

Christopher White — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:22:17 +0000

What does Microsoft have planned for the enterprise environment? We'll be traveling to Las Vegas next week to talk with company leaders to find out their vision for the corporate world. Read more...

Windows Server 2012 SKUs revealed

John Callaham — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:50:54 +0000

Microsoft has revealed it will sell four versions of its Windows Server 2012 operating system when it becomes available later this fall. However, it won't offer a version of Small Business Server. Read more...

Microsoft to build $112m data center in Wyoming, but why?

Brad Sams — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:07:01 +0000

Microsoft is about to spend a boat load of cash in Wyoming to build a $112 million dollar data center but what for, remains a mystery. Read more...

VMware announces vSphere 5; pushes into the cloud

Owen Williams — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:35:17 +0000

Hot on the heels of Microsoft announcing their new version of Hyper-V, which is due out with Windows 8, VMware has revealed their latest version of vSphere and is officially launching their "cloud infrastructure suite"... Read more...

Softlayer and The Planet in merger talks

Dave Legg — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:45:48 +0000

Two of the industry's largest providers of dedicated servers and hosting services have entered into talks regarding a possible merger. If completed, the merger would make Softlayer CEO Lance Crosby the CEO of the combined... Read more...

Google to build $600M datacenter in South Carolina

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:54:07 +0000

South Carolina's government has announced that Google plans to invest $600 million in a new datacenter on a 210 hectare site at the Mt. Holly Commerce Park in Berkeley County near Charleston, the land... Read more...

Google to Spend $600 Million for New Datacenter

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:10:14 +0000

As a followup to the previous story, Google has chosen North Carolina for building a new $600 million USD data center facility. The fact that North Carolina previously offered an incentives package for Google that... Read more...

Longhorn Datacenter will have no extra virtualization costs

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:17:07 +0000

Today virtualization is expensive for licensing. Microsoft asks peopleto license every OS installed on virtual machines, even if powered off. But something is changing. Since the release of Windows Server 2003... Read more...

Modeling the Datacenter With Microsoft 'Indy'

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:40:46 +0000

Microsoft's enterprise management division is expected to commercialize Microsoft Research's performance-modeling tool. At the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas this week, the Redmond software giant is expected to show off a brand-new management tool.... Read more...

Windows 2003 Datacenter gets overhaul

Tom Warren — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 23:21:45 +0000

Microsoft's Windows Datacenter Server has been about more than technology features since its launch in late 2000. Fittingly, the tightly controlled support program that makes Datacenter Server so different from other Microsoft server operating systems... Read more...