2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (173+ words) Lights-out data centers are the way to go for ocean-faring facilities. Everything is tested before the data center sets sail. Each self-contained data center is coated with a corrosion-resistant paint so it can stand up to the constant salt in…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (237+ words) Google brought ocean-faring data centers into the public spotlight in 2013, when barges that looked like containerized data centers appeared in San Francisco Bay and the harbor of Portland, Maine. The company has since refuted the floating data center theory, saying…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (387+ words) Determining the ROI when swapping out a copper line depends on the circuit's purpose and the business risk it carries. Replacing a POTS line for an elevator phone is not the same case as replacing a PRI into a contact…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (229+ words) By many accounts, Wi-Fi 6 lives up to much of its considerable hype. Features like orthogonal frequency-division multiple access and multi-user, multiple-input, multiple-output are realizing unprecedented gains in efficiency and performance over Wi-Fi 5. Wireless experts Kevin Tolly and Andrew Froehlich explore…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (280+ words) Members of the IEEE committee developing the new wireless LAN standard now expect the final 802.11ax release date won't arrive until mid- to late-2020. Here's what has to happen first. Many networking pros are eagerly awaiting the new high-efficiency wireless standard, which…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (539+ words) Businesses will soon be able to join meetings on Google's web conferencing platform, Google Hangouts Meet, using Microsoft Skype for Business and video conferencing systems from Cisco and Polycom. At the same time, Google is helping several competing video conferencing…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1022+ words) Organizations that still rely on copper lines to support legacy communications services must have a plan in place to decommission them as carriers ramp up their plans to end copper services. The FCC has accelerated the retirement of copper lines…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1538+ words) The insatiable appetite for energy to power AI is leading to a massive increase in data center expansion. All the increased data center usage is having serious effects on sustainability areas, including increased carbon emissions, power grid reliability, water usage…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (342+ words) In their exuberance to seize the opportunity of the cloud, organizations of all types and sizes have turned to service providers' platforms as places where they can run workloads, develop applications, back up data and handle other important IT tasks....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (279+ words) TechTarget In a multi-cloud world, costs can multiply Plenty of businesses decide that they want to work with multiple cloud providers, while other organizations end up in a multi-cloud situation more or less by accident. Whatever the reasons, it's much…...