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1. Want to build a business? You need an IT ecosystem. Explore GigaOM (Feb 4 2012) Cloud Computing Just thirty years ago, innovation in almost any category was measured in years, but today it’s measured in weeks or months. If you were to focus on information technology specifically you could even argue that change can occur in days — and that cycle will continue to accelerate. But adapting and innovating in IT requires that you have a platform strategy that allows for heterogeneous adoption of technology at each layer of infrastructure. You also need simplified, cost-effective, real-time access to a wide range of partners and solution providers, otherwise known as your technology ecosystem. This group of providers will be a veritable marketplace of vendors that are proprietary and open source, but whom together create a combination of technologies and services that allow the buyer to mix and match for any solution requirement. (Read Full Article)

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2. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 4 Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers Facebook’s $1 Billion Data Center Network – Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in the infrastructure that powers its social network, which now serves more than 845 million users a month around the globe. SeaMicro Servers Get Brawny With Xeon Chips – SeaMicro has adapted its many-core server design to work with Intel Xeon processors, significantly expanding the type of workloads that can run on the company’s low-energy servers. Amazon: 762 Billion Objects Stored on S3 Cloud – How fast is Amazon Web Services growing? The number of objects stored on the company’s S3 cloud storage service tripled in the 12-month period between the final quarters of 2010 and 2011. S3 now stores an amazing 762 billion objects. By any measure, that’s extraordinary growth. SuperNAP Featured on CBS Evening News – The massive SuperNAP data center was in the spotlight last Thursday evening when it was featured in a ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Data Center Knowledge   Facebook

3. University breaks ground for information technology center Explore University of Hawaii System (Feb 3 2012) Construction A new six-story, 74,000-square-foot Information Technology Center on the Mānoa campus will be the first facility designed and constructed anywhere in the University of Hawaiʻi System to properly house the university’s enterprise information and communications technology systems. Governor Neil Abercrombie, UH President M.R.C. Greenwood and UH Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner spoke at a ceremony held Friday at UH Mānoa to celebrate the groundbreaking for the center. “This center will provide the foundation for our mission-focused efforts and move us a giant step forward in our quest to be a model 21st-century university with excellent facilities,” said Greenwood. Located immediately east of Bilger Addition, the Information Technology Center will provide a centralized facility for the university’s systemwide Information Technology Services division. It will house a state-of-the-art and energy-efficient data center featuring an 8,000-square-foot machine room for enterprise servers ... (Read Full Article)

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4. Q9 Houses NYSE’s Financial Transaction Infrastructure at Toronto Data Center Explore Web Host Industry Review (Feb 3 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Networking Data center operator Q9 Networks announced on Thursday it has been selected by NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext, to host a secure financial transaction infrastructure access center. The agreement will extend the SFTI backbone into Q9′s Toronto data center, enabling Canadian customers to directly access services over the global capital markets network. Developed in 2002 for the financial services community, SFTI is built to facilitate large quantities of electronic quotes, trades and market data traffic while ensuring reliable, ultra-low latency access to NYSE Euronext’s markets and other global trading venues and firms, including more than 1,300 market participants. (Read Full Article)

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5. Will IT Efficiency Slay the Greenwashing Dragon?? Explore news.thomasnet.com (Feb 3 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions Leafing through the latest environmental news, we ran across six predictions for green IT in 2012. We like that sort of thing, predictions. What we really like is running across "Predictions for 2010" online, and having a good chuckle. Anyway, there it was, Prediction #1 for green IT in 2012: "Greenwashing is dead." Really. Do tell. Nobody invited us to the ecofuneral. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   United Kingdom   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   LEED

6. Facebook S-1 Filing Sheds Some Light On Its Data Center Strategy Explore seekingalpha.com (Feb 3 2012) Construction by: Paolo Gorgo February 3, 2012 | about: FB, includes: COR, DFT, DLR, EQIX, VZ, ZNGA * Font Size: * Print * Email * Recommend 0 Share this page Share As expected, Facebook (FB) filed this week its much awaited S-1 registration statement related to its proposed IPO. As a result, the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Web site, where regulatory documents can be accessed by investors, crashed and became almost unav (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Facebook

7. New Deadline Set for GEIT Awards Explore Mission Critical Magazine (Feb 2 2012) The deadline for submitting applications to Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards has been extended to midnight PST on February 15, 2012. A principal objective of the GEIT Awards is to educate the data center and IT industries in effective ways to reduce energy and resource consumption by highlighting innovation and best practices. The Awards are open to applicants in all countries and are carefully judged by a committee of independent experts. Award winners are honored at the annual Uptime Institute Symposium, which will be held May 14-17, 2012 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Uptime Institute   Uptime Institute Symposium

8. Roundup: Fusion-io, Raritan, CommVault Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 2 2012) Construction Fusion-io selected by inFrame Designs. Fusion-io (FIO) announced that InFrame Designs, provider of custom-built media servers to accelerate playback of video at live media events, has deployed Fusion’s ioMemory technology in its appliances to reduce latency by up to 100 times when compared to InFrame’s previous architecture. Raritan launches dcTrack 2.6 DCIM.  Raritan introduceddcTrack 2.6 DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software with new intelligent connectivity management capabilities to help data center professionals manage both network and power connections more efficiently.CommVault unveils new Simpana software innovations.  CommVaultannounced new, next-generation Singular Information Management innovations that further empower Simpana software customers to lower data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks and easily extract data for better decision making with anywhere, anytime information access.  (Read Full Article)

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9. Adobe Adds 400 Kilowatts of Bloom Fuel Cells Explore Greentech Media (Feb 2 2012) Emissions , Fuel Cell But can the fuel cell firm survive as subsidies fade? Earlier this week Adobe announced that it had added another 400 kilowatts of Bloom Energy fuel cells to its current fleet of Bloom Boxes. I spoke with Mike Bangs, Adobe's Director of Global Facilities, about the installation. The two 200-kilowatt units installed at the company's San Francisco site are Bloom's next-generation design and put out twice the (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Google   Adobe   Kleiner Perkins

10. Squeezing Silicon for more power - By Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 2 2012) As companies build better data centers and more optimized servers to fit in those data centers, there are a number of ongoing efforts to squeeze more efficiency out of the basic bits -- CPUs, memory, storage -- of computing.   For the long term, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is getting into the act to stimulate more bang, er compute power per watt while a number of companies inch closer to non-volatile RAM to replace disk drives and flash-based memory. DARPA -- the organization who invented the Internet (Sorry, Al Gore) -- is getting a lot press on its PERFECT project -- Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies.  Invoking Moore's Law and Dennard's Scaling, DARPA wants to improve power efficiency for embedded computer systems, providing more computing power per watt of electrical power.  DARPA's looking for researchers and projects to push embedded processing systems from a baseline of ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney

11. Will clean power and microgrids be the future of data centers? Explore GigaOM (Feb 2 2012) Construction , Data Center Outages , Carbon Footprint , Solar Will an idea to build a data center park powered by onsite clean energy and paired with a microgrid in Colorado, represent the future of data centers? Created by developer Craig Harrison, the Niobrara Data Center Energy Park is a proposal for a company or even the government to build one or more data centers on a one-square mile plot of land in Colorado’s Weld County. Harrison says the site is unique in that a natural gas power plant could be built on it (a gas hub is a few miles away), and has a sunny climate that would enable an onsite solar panel farm. These local clean energy sources could be connected in a microgrid that could add uptime security for a data center, as well as reduce efficiency losses from transmission. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Facebook

12. 5 Reasons to Own Your Cloud Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 2 2012) Cloud Computing Kent Christensen is virtualization practice manager for Datalink, where consults with both Fortune 500 and mid-tier customers on storage consolidation, virtualization, cloud strategies and technologies. He blogs about theses issues. KENT CHRISTENSEN Datalink Cloud computing is gaining popularity. Yet, we know that only about 25% of IT teams are actively involved in cloud computing within their organization. Why the disconnect? Many IT people tell me they are interested, but just don’t have time to explore what cloud computing could mean to their IT organization. The best advice I can give them comes from American Revolutionary Thomas Paine, himself: “Lead, follow or get out of the way.” Now’s the time to move forward with plans for your own internal, private cloud. If you don’t, you may find yourself — and your IT organization — left behind. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Data Center Knowledge

13. Facebook’s $1 Billion Data Center Network Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in the infrastructure that powers its social network, which now serves more than 845 million users a month around the globe. The company spent $606 million on servers, storage, network gear and data centers in 2011, and expects to spend another $500 million this year, Facebook revealed Wednesday in its filing for an initial public stock offering. The company’s massive armada of servers and storage must work together seamlessly to deliver each Facebook page, the company said. “Loading a user’s home page typically requires accessing hundreds of servers, processing tens of thousands of individual pieces of data, and delivering the information selected in less than one second,” the company said. (Read Full Article)

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14. Cisco Accelerates Switches to 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 2 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking Cisco (CSCO) announced it has updated its switching portfolio with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 40 GE capabilities, the next speed limits for networking. These new capabilities provide a holistic architectural approach across campus, data center and service provider environments. (Read Full Article)

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15. Colt receives Uptime certification for M&O Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing ; London 3 becomes first data center in Europe to be recognized for site management using the standard 2 February 2012 by Penny Jones - DatacenterDynamics Print Colt's Guy Ruddock Colt has become the first data center operator in Europe to receive the Uptime Institute’s Management & Operations certification for a data center, which covers third-party assurance for site management. Colt had to undergo extensive a (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   Uptime Institute

16. Colt Group Sa : The Uptime Institute awards Colt with Management & Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval for data centre operations Explore Stock Market Quotes and Financial News (Feb 2 2012) Construction , Emissions Colt, Europe's leading information delivery platform, has been awarded the Uptime Institute's Management & Operations (M&O) Stamp of Approval for its London 3 site. Colt is the first data centre operator in Europe to be accredited, demonstrating its leadership in the industry. Julian Kudritzki, Vice President at the Uptime Institute commented, "Colt's M&O approved London 3 site management not only deserves congratulations, but reinforces Colt's commitment to excellence in operations." The Institute's M&O Stamp of Approval validates that Colt's facility satisfies industry-recognised criteria. This criteria is deemed essential to achieve full uptime potential, obtain maximum leverage of the installed infrastructure and design, improve the efficiency of operations and realise opportunities for energy efficiency. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Europe   Uptime Institute

17. For Facebook, infrastructure concerns loom large Explore GigaOM (Feb 1 2012) Beneath all the Zynga games, likes, personal timelines and pokes, Facebook's business relies on fast, reliable infrastructure. And concerns about that underlying figure heavily in the risks it faces as it goes public, according to its S-1 filing. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Facebook   LEED

18. Facebook IPO: What the filing reveals about the company’s data centers Explore washingtonpost.com (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing To a run a site as massive as Facebook inherently requires a massive infrastructure of data centers. The Web site’s IPO filing on Wednesday sheds some light on just how much it costs to maintain and construct such facilities. According to the document, Facebook had $500 million in “non-cancelable contractual commitments as of December 31, 2011, primarily related to equipment and supplies for our data center operations, and to a lesser extent, construction of our data center sites.” (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Facebook   Mark Zuckerberg

19. Free cooling cuts AC use by 75% at Brooklyn data center Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers GalaxyVisions and its subsidiary ColoGuard have reduced usage of mechanical air conditioning at their shared Brooklyn data center by 75% since implementation of airside economization at the facility two years ago. GalaxyVisions VP of operations Ruben Magurdumov said deployment of an airside economizer at the company’s facility in the New York City borough gave the company substantial efficiency advantages, even with this winter’s unusually warm weather. (Read Full Article)

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20. DuPont Fabros, IO Complete SSAE 16 Audits Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing Several leading data center providers reported this week that they have competed audits of their facilities: DuPont Fabros Technology – Wholesale data center developer DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) today announced that the control procedures for its data centers that required the certification have been found to be suitable in design and operating effectively according to Service Organization Control Reports (“SOC1″). IO – Modular data center specialist IO said the company has completed a SSAE 16 Type 2 audit covering three operational data centers – IO New Jersey, IO Phoenix and IO Scottsdale. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   DuPont Fabros   DuPont Fabros Technology   Hossein Fateh

21. CIOs Reduce Data Center Costs Through Power and Cooling Efficiency Explore itbusinessedge.com (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers Energy costs are the fastest-rising cost element in the data center. Based on current trends, the EPA estimates that energy consumed by data centers will continue to grow by 12 percent per year. Power and thermal energy consumption balanced with energy savings is one of the major responsibilities of facility and IT managers. Intel Data Center Manager group has observed how the data center is now a source for CIOs and their technical teams to add to the bottom line through increased power and cooling efficiency.   Leading data centers are ramping up to real-time power and thermal management. There is a growing recognition of the ROI benefit through monitoring usage by device. This provides real-time energy consumption data in relation to the actual workload for individual servers and groups of servers. Collecting data of the actual power and thermal trends over days, weeks and years provides ROI benefit through the ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

22. Top 10 Data Center Stories: January 2012 Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing While much data center news broke in January, one story on a unique data center design – camouflaging a data center as a residence – clearly led the pack of the best-read items on Data Center Knowledge. There was also interest in stories on the federal government’s plans to close data centers, Facebook’s spending on its facility in Oregon, and a guest column on audit standards confusion in the industry. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge during January 2012, ranked by total page views: A Data Center That Mimics A Mansion – January 20 Feds Now Plan to Close 1,200 Data Centers – January 4 Facebook Has Spent $210 Million on Oregon Data Center – January 30 AICPA Fumbles Audit Standards at the 5-Yard Line – January 19 Google Spent $951 Million on Data Centers in Q4 – January 23 The Coming Colo Crunch – January 18 ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Data Center Knowledge   Facebook

23. Cisco Live: In Pictures Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Feb 1 2012) This week’s Cisco Live event in London was not just about the networking and data centre technology. IT people visiting the show let their hair down as well. Admittedly the lighter moments were about things like ludicrously fast cars. The Bloodhound CCS on display is a British bid to push the world land speed record above 1000mph, while other members of the Cisco ecosystem got to play Cisco pinball. The leading product announcement was about a fast Wi-Fi access point, designed to cope with the hordes of mobile devices which workers are bringing into their offices. Other announcements from Cisco’s ecosystem included efficient green Power over Ethernet products and a network company beating the distance record for 100 Gigabit Ethernet. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Peter Judge

24. Beyond Servers: Is Your Data Center Truly Virtualized? Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage The concept of introducing virtualization into corporate data centers has moved well past the trial phase over the past few years into one of wide acceptance today. The latest virtualization technologies deliver on the promise of increased efficiency, reduced expenses and a smaller overall footprint. But when it comes to a truly virtualized data center, server virtualization, which enables several applications to run independently on a single physical server, is only half of the solution. Storage Demands Continue CIOs today continue to struggle keeping up with the demands for more storage capacity as data continues to grow exponentially. That, in turn, has led them to add storage systems ad-hoc, responding to the needs of a specific deployment, a particular business function, or a geographic area. As such, many organizations have created a complex, inflexible storage infrastructure that has become both difficult and costly to manage. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Data Center Knowledge   Dell   Microsoft Corp

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