Tag: Coronavirus

AWS

Why AWS, Google, and Microsoft Kept Building Data Centers During COVID-19

Despite the economic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s leading hyperscale cloud providers—Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple—continued aggressive data center capital spending in 2020, underpinned by record 2019 investment levels and surging demand for cloud services.

Azure

Storage Industry Digest: Rackspace, AWS, and Nvidia COVID-19 Initiatives, Plus HDD Supply Chain Risks and More

A roundup of storage industry news from early 2020: cloud providers respond to COVID-19 with research funding and free resources, HDD manufacturing faces supply chain disruption, Huawei posts a new SPC-1 benchmark, and more from Acronis, iXsystems, Code42, and others.