Cleanrooms and high-filtration systems are essential to industries that must filter airborne pollutants. The ISO standard 14644 series enables organizations to maintain cleanrooms and air hygiene for air-controlled environments like data centers. While data centers do not need to adhere to all parts of the ISO 14644 standards, many are relevant. The standard and related […]
Data centers are hubs for company storage and client information, but the environment is ever-changing as the demand for more storage space increases. With a rise in storage demand, data centers must go through remodeling and rebuilding stages; however, data centers can cause harm to the environment with their excessive use of nonrenewable resources to […]
Compared to hard drives, SSDs are remarkably reliable, and wear leveling and other technologies have dramatically increased their expected life spans. Yet, no storage technology is perfect — even the latest SSDs are susceptible to gradual breakdowns. The more the SSD is used, the less reliable it becomes. Know how to spot the signs of […]
With aging infrastructure in need of a refresh, a California high school went almost all-in on HPE GreenLake. Grossmont Union High School District (GUHSD) has been in operation in San Diego County, Calif., for over 100 years. With 13 campuses and more than 17,000 students, executive director of educational technology services Rick Roberts set out […]
Data serialization languages, like Extensible Markup Language and YAML Ain’t Markup Language, are typically found in infrastructure-as-code management software. Understand the differences and use cases between XML and YMAL to maximize your automation potential in application development. XML and YAML provide administrators with many options to automate and structure data. However, knowing the differences enables […]
A containerized data center, also known as a modular data center, is a data center within a container. For companies that need to increase IT capacity quickly, affordably and temporarily, containerized data centers are a great option, and customized modular data centers can more permanently scale services and support. The “container” can vary, including a […]
What is a consumption-based pricing model? A consumption-based pricing model is a service provision and payment scheme in which customers pay according to the resources they use. The charges are based on one or more metrics that are measured in units such as the number of application programming interface (API) calls or the amount of […]
Astera Labs is sampling a new cable to expand GPU clustering for AI workloads, linking multiple racks together and spreading out heat output and energy usage. The Aries PCIe and Compute Express Link (CXL) Smart Cable Modules (SCMs) use copper cabling to more than double the PCIe 5.0 signal reach from 3 meters to 7 […]
Hyper-converged infrastructure technology has taken big strides since emerging more than a decade ago, finding a home in data centers looking to ease procurement headaches and management chores. Vendors originally positioned the technology as a simple-to-deploy, all-in-one offering that combined compute, storage and networking with a hypervisor. The essential selling points around simplicity remain the […]