Weekly News: Fishing for Data & Data Storage

Fishing for Data, cloud storage, data center, AI, cloud gaming and DevOps, discover latest news with Mission Control Center by Mindquest.

Data storage & Liquid cooling

Some weeks ago we
learnt how a future where cloud gaming was the norm could see emissions rise by
30%. 

Maintaining a data centre and a data storage is a costly endeavour. Especially because of how much power is devoted to cooling the hardware. But Microsoft has a solution. 

Earlier this week, the company retrieved a cylinder-shaped data centre it had sunk off the Scotland coast two years ago. Albeit covered by algae and barnacles,; the data centre is in perfect working order and has in fact proven to be more reliable and efficient than traditional server rack environments. 

Researchers attribute the positive results to a combination of less human interaction and cooler temperatures; as well as to the nitrogen that was used for ventilation instead of the usual oxygen. Which reduces corrosion.

Although one could wonder how an ocean floor full of servers would affect global water temperatures. 

BBC

Snakeoil sellers beware

And speaking of AI…

An international coalition of medical experts has introduced the
world’s first standards for clinical trials involving artificial
intelligence. 

The standards, which were published on Nature Medicine and The
Lancet, are aimed at tackling the current hype around AI and preventing
interested parties from leveraging the media attention to sell dubious
research.

The move comes at a time when the entire world is laser-focused on Covid vaccine clinical trials. An area in which AI can help speed up things immensely. Applied wrongly, however, the technology could endanger millions of people.  

MIT Technology Review

DevOps: the future of the enterprise

In an interview with
SiliconANGLE, Gene Kim, the DevOps guru behind books like “The Phoenix
Project” stressed how vital DevOps is to the future of the
enterprise. 

At a time when ensuring effective data storage, management and
analytics is so pressing, businesses are prioritising developer operations to
make informed business decisions.

Kim argues that DevOps not only helps organisations’ bottom
line; it is the new bottom line.

A focus on empowering developers, Kim says, will undoubtedly reward companies with unprecedented freedom and agility.

SiliconANGLE

Discover our article: The IT Jobs Market of Today