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A public TV station lost access to 70 years of archives after its cloud vendor failed. The data is safe on servers in a third-party data center, but a contractual dispute means no one can legally access it.
Kioxia unveiled a new enterprise SSD that achieves a record 10 million input/output operations per second. Its extreme speed and endurance are engineered to eliminate data bottlenecks for the most demanding AI systems.
Kioxia and SanDisk revealed a new memory chip that could enable the world's first 1 petabyte SSDs. This breakthrough promises massive increases in storage density and speed for data centers and cloud infrastructure.
Samsung is developing floating data centers for Texas. These waterborne facilities could provide 50MW of power and use the surrounding water for cooling, significantly speeding up construction compared to land-based sites.
AMD announced its next-generation "Venice" EPYC server processor, which will be its first 2nm chip. It will feature a massive 256 cores, signaling a huge leap in data center performance and efficiency for future AI workloads.
Weka has launched a new storage system that packs a claimed exabyte of data into a single server rack. It combines ultra-dense SSDs with powerful software compression to dramatically increase storage capacity for AI and big data workloads.
AWS is replacing its standard data center network design with a new architecture based on random graph theory. This new flat, mesh-like structure uses fewer routers and passive optical connections, resulting in significantly higher throughput, lower power consumption, and reduced hardware complexity.
Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a 244-acre data center campus in Caledonia, Wisconsin, following significant community opposition. The decision highlights growing local resistance to large-scale infrastructure projects, which can impact cloud service expansion plans for major tech companies and their customers.