HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE,APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE,STORAGE MANAGEMENT
STACK Infrastructure | November 30, 2022
STACK Infrastructure, the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies and leading global developer and operator of data centers, announced the groundbreaking of STACK’s latest hyperscale campus in the center of Prince William County, one of the most desirable locations in Northern Virginia. Delivery of the first building on the campus is targeted for Q1 2024.
The latest among STACK’s portfolio of seven data center campuses in Northern Virginia, the 40-acre site will add nearly 100MW of committed and scalable power from Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC). Construction will begin with a 36MW facility, with plans to grow the campus to multiple data centers supported by a 300MW substation. The scalable campus offers a prime opportunity for clients interested in securing capacity within this critical land and power-constrained market.
“Expanding our presence in the heart of Prince William County represents a strategic approach of continuing to deliver scalable capacity where it matters most. “Powered with 100% renewable energy, STACK’s new campus offers a sustainable solution and allows our clients the ability to grow quickly in the world’s largest data center market.”
Matthew VanderZanden, Chief Operating Officer of STACK Americas
STACK’s presence in Northern Virginia has markedly increased with continued growth announcements over the last four years. STACK has nearly 1GW of current and under-development capacity in one of the most constrained data center markets on the globe. Plans for this latest development were announced in April, on the heels of a 216MW Ashburn campus announcement shared earlier in 2022.
Over the past three months, STACK has announced growth in the top data center markets across the globe, including a 230MW five-building campus in central Phoenix, an 80MW hyperscale campus in Frankfurt, Germany, a 48MW facility in Seoul, Korea, and multiple data centers in Australia. STACK’s presence within 23 markets distributed throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions makes it one of the largest private data center operators worldwide.
ABOUT STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
STACK provides digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies. With a client-first approach, STACK delivers a comprehensive suite of campus, build-to-suit, colocation, and powered shell solutions in the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions. With robust existing and flexible expansion capacity in the leading availability zones, STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data. And data runs on STACK.
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IT SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT,AWS,AZURE
Validation Cloud | December 12, 2022
Today, Validation Cloud announces the launch of Javelin, a Web3 infrastructure platform premised on three pillars: superior speeds, enterprise scale, and global resilience. With the failings of legacy infrastructure providers causing costly downtime and customer frustration, Validation Cloud is providing next generation Web3 infrastructure built to meet enterprise-scale demands.
Javelin is targeted at Web3 applications and blockchain networks that value performance, offering fast and scalable access to infrastructure. Out of the box, Javelin delivers speeds that are multiple times faster than legacy peers. In addition, Javelin benefits networks by allowing them to achieve optimal transaction throughput and accelerating developer adoption.
"Large enterprise clients tell us that legacy infrastructure providers cannot meet their scale and resilience requirements. We believe that the next billion users will be brought into Web3 by traditional enterprises, and those enterprises will require compliant enterprise-grade infrastructure. Validation Cloud is ready to support enterprises and existing Web3 segments, DeFi and gaming," said Michael Horowitz, Validation Cloud CEO.
The DeFi and gaming sectors gain unique advantages from Javelin's architecture. Faster speeds for DeFi mean superior trade execution that leads to winning arbitrage opportunities and ultimately generating more alpha for asset managers. In gaming, speed reduces lag and glitches which enables developers to have a global user base for games and increases the competitiveness of games.
Javelin's hyper-resilient platform eliminates network outages through fully automated recovery for nodes. The platform's innovative self-healing and global redundancy ensure it only takes a matter of seconds to detect nodes that are down and issue new nodes. "Javelin is a game-changer for blockchain networks. The Javelin platform is the fastest and most reliable solution to eliminate network outages and create a seamless path for networks to scale.
Andrew McFarlane, Validation Cloud CTO.
Beyond the technical innovations brought by Javelin, Validation Cloud is also pursuing rigorous compliance certifications to further cater to traditional enterprises. To that end, Validation Cloud expects to achieve SOC2 Type I by the end of the year, and SOC2 Type II during the first half of 2023.
With the initial Javelin launch, users can create an account and start connecting to Ethereum today at validationcloud.io. Contact Validation Cloud to gain access to closed access networks including Avalanche, Aptos, and Polygon.
About Validation Cloud
Validation Cloud is a Web3 infrastructure company that provides high-performance node and staking infrastructure. Validation Cloud is enabling the future of Web3 via highly resilient global scale infrastructure for networks, custodians, asset managers, and applications.
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STORAGE MANAGEMENT,DATA STORAGE,WINDOWS SERVER OS
Ventana Micro Systems Inc. | December 14, 2022
Ventana Micro Systems Inc. today announced its Veyron family of high performance RISC-V processors. The Veyron V1 is the first member of the family, and the highest performance RISC-V processor available today. It will be offered in the form of high performance chiplets and IP. Ventana Founder and CEO Balaji Baktha will make the public announcement during his RISC-V Summit keynote today.
The Veyron V1 is the first RISC-V processor to provide single thread performance that is competitive with the latest incumbent processors for Data Center, Automotive, 5G, AI, and Client applications. The Veyron V1 efficient microarchitecture also enables the highest single socket performance among competing architectures.
Veyron V1's efficient performance combined with RISC-V's open and extensible architecture enables customer innovation and workload optimization. This results in further workload efficiency gains through domain specific acceleration that will extend Moore's Law to deal with the emerging energy and thermal constraints for data centers.
The standards-based Veyron V1 compute chiplet and reference platform enable customers a time to market acceleration of up to two years and reduction of development costs by up to 75%. Chiplet based solutions also provide better unit economics by right sizing compute, IO, and memory. Composable architectures leveraging chiplets allow companies to focus on their innovation and differentiation to achieve workload optimization. Additionally, Ventana provides a Software Development Kit (SDK) which includes an extensive set of software building blocks already proven on Ventana's RISC-V platform.
"Our vision of delivering the highest performance RISC-V CPUs is helping to reshape next generation high performance open hardware architectures. Today, we have a significant first mover advantage by providing a platform that can allow customers to innovate and differentiate. Markets which require high performance compute such as Data Center, 5G, AI, Automotive, and Client will all benefit from our open standards-based, ultra low latency chiplet solution that delivers rapid productization with significant reduction in development time and cost compared to the prevailing IP models. Ventana's strong roadmap and customer engagement puts the company in prime position for sustained market leadership."
Balaji Baktha, Founder and CEO of Ventana.
The new RISC-V CPU core is the centerpiece of the first compute chiplet solution with chiplets supplied by different companies. Ventana's Veyron platform solution also enables integration of a flexible Domain Specific Accelerator for hardware/software codesign. Veyron V1 is available in the second half of 2023 and is the first in a series of products from Ventana. High performance features of the Veyron V1 include: enterprise class RAS, virtualization, robust security, top-down performance tuning, and system IP such as IOMMU and advanced interrupt controller.
"Ventana has a world class team with an average of twenty plus years of experience bringing multiple new CPU architectures to market," said Patrick Moorhead, Founder and Chief Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. "Ventana is the first big core in RISC-V to show up, the only game in town, and has a jump on the market."
About Ventana Micro Systems Inc.
Headquartered in Cupertino, Ventana Micro Systems Inc. was launched in 2019 to revolutionize the processor market by offering high-performance, extensible and secure compute chiplets based on RISC-V's open architecture. Ventana is a Premier Member of RISC-V International and part of its Technical Steering Committee.
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HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE,APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE,DATA STORAGE
Liftr Insights | November 11, 2022
Liftr Insights, a pioneer in market intelligence driven by unique data, shows strength within NVIDIA's business.
Recent disappointing activity with NVIDIA has drawn many eyes, but a deeper dive shows that one of their business units has remained strong while others have faltered. That part? Data center revenue.
NVIDIA data center revenue revolves around GPU accelerators sold to public and private cloud centers.
Public cloud providers continue to grow and expand their use of NVIDIA accelerators. Sales and deployment of components such as GPUs on public clouds providers are important indicators because public clouds mirror the needs of the larger semiconductor market, public and private.
Liftr Insights, a provider of reliable data about public clouds and semiconductors, recently assessed the continued growth of NVIDIA's data center business.
The data show that NVIDIA continues to dominate the accelerator space despite attempts by AMD, Intel and other providers to gain a foothold. Among those other contenders are the cloud providers themselves, designing and building their own accelerators as they have been doing with ARM-based CPUs.
"We're proud to have over 40 months of data on companies like AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA that investors can use to track progress. "Particularly in uncertain times and when data center sales are a core part—the backbone—of these businesses."
Tab Schadt, CEO of Liftr Insights
The top six cloud providers, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Aliyun, Oracle Cloud, and Tencent Cloud, represent over 75% of the total public cloud market. These data show growth of NVIDIA in size and market share.
"The data show effects from recent semiconductor backlog issues, but also the continued investment in companies like NVIDIA, despite the challenges," says Schadt.
NVIDIA's most recent quarterly statement demonstrates that data center revenue represents 57% of NVIDIA's quarterly revenue, up from 41% the year prior. This percentage is expected to continue to increase in upcoming earnings reports. Since data center revenue represents the majority of NVIDIA's business, this segment is critical to monitor as the other markets for NVIDIA products (e.g., gaming, crypto mining) have become fickle.
"Our customers see our objective data as a reliable indicator in uncertain times," says Schadt. "We look forward to seeing what the next rounds of data this month will signal."
About Liftr Insights
Liftr Insights generates reliable market intelligence using unique data, including details about configurations, components, deployment geo, and pricing for:
Server processors: Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, and AWS's Arm-based Graviton brands
Datacenter compute accelerators: GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs, and AI chips from NVIDIA, Xilinx, Intel, AMD, AWS, and Google
As shown on the Liftr Cloud Regions Map at https://bit.ly/LiftrCloudRegionsMap, among the companies tracked are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Tencent Cloud as well as semiconductor vendors AMD, Ampere, Intel, NVIDIA, and Xilinx. Liftr Insights subject matter experts translate company-specific service provider data into actionable alternative data. Market intelligence consumers can easily ingest this timely, standardized, and operationally-compliant information into their predictive financial models.
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