As exascale system power requirements reach tens of megawatts, on-premise facilities are becoming less feasible

Hyperscalers are installing ground stations at data centers, while incumbents are moving to a more cloud-like, virtualized, as a Service way of thinking

Keeping your qubits stable requires some of the most extreme cooling equipment around

Fredrick Brennan talks about the failure of free speech communities, the dangers of hate, and why he now welcomes censorship

They’re getting bigger, so defenses need to keep getting better

AWS changed its Spot pricing to be smoother. The result ended up more expensive, and less transparent

All around the world, data center builders are finding they have to build upwards, creating new opportunities and challenges

While customers increasingly seek out multi-cloud solutions, Western companies might prefer to stick with what they know

Hong Kong and Singapore struggle with success; Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand keep growing their data center footprint

What re:Invent conference in Las Vegas told us about the future direction of the company

After Ellison’s bluster, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd promised a cloud based on long-term applications development 

Amazon is building fast in Asia, because cloud benefits could be particularly significant in the region

Data center companies hope that private/hybrid interconnects will guarantee them a place in the cloud services ecosystem, says Martin Courtney

If it’s going to be more than a buzzword, digital transformation has to deliver real benefits

As Amazon grows in Asia, it has observations on how cloud is catching on in the region

Amazon is building cloud faster than any IT project ever. To keep it reliable and cheap, the company is making unprecedented network and hardware decisions down to the ASIC level

As Telstra buys into China’s Quiniu, other cloud and data center operators are expanding rapidly in the region

It’s the biggest cloud provider by miles, but Paul Mah found AWS wouldn’t share much about its facilities

Even data sovereignty isn’t holding up Amazon, as it opens more and more data centers in Asia

Enterprises can go to the cloud one step at a time, but AWS’s Stephen Orban says they won’t want to come back

AWS is testing Tesla’s Powerpack — but there are still drawbacks to the wider use of batteries