Green Photonics for Energy Efficient Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge (Sep 20 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Arlon Martin is the VP of Marketing, Contracts & Government Affairs for Kotura. Martin has more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, product and technical management in the semiconductor and optoelectronics industries. Large data centers are measured by three metrics: number of server blades; number of square feet and megawatts of power. Rich Miller provided a very nice special report on large data centers in Data Center Knowledge in April 2010. The largest data center in the world, the Lakeside Technology Center, 350 East Cermak, Chicago, covers over 1 million square feet and is supported by 100 MW of power. Even the smaller data centers of the Top Ten are larger than half a dozen football fields. The number of server blades is not often disclosed, but we do know that the Microsoft Chicago Data Center has capacity for 224,000 server blades in 110 containers on the ground ... (Read Full Article)

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