Does something need checking out in your data center? Before you send out a technician, why not send out a robot? That's the upshot of a newly published Amazon patent.

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Computer servers in data centers could do more than respond to requests from millions of internet users. IBM researchers have patented a technique using vibration sensors inside server hard drives ...

What is this computer-server heater? Four researchers from Microsoft Research and two from the University of Virginia are working on a concept they call the "data furnace." Since computer servers ...

An elegant new algorithm developed by Danish researchers can significantly reduce the resource consumption of the world's computer servers. Computer servers are as taxing on the climate as global ...

Princeton researchers are envisioning a way to breathe new life into old smartphones by turning them into high-powered computer servers.