2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

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    1. “ Failures and issues on-site go into a planned maintenance mode, We simply move the instances (or create new ones) to other data center facilities and the failed equipment is addressed in a scheduled way using outsourced or vendor partners. ”
      By Mike Manos

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  1. AOL Launches New ‘Lights Out’ Data Center

    Data Center Knowledge (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing

    1. AOL Launches New ‘Lights Out’ Data Center AOL has begun operations at a new data center that will be completely unmanned, with all monitoring and management being handled remotely. The new “lights out” facility is part of a broader updating of AOL’s infrastructure that leverages virtualization and modular design to rapidly deploy and manage server capacity. The new approach to infrastructure is driven by AOL’s focus on content, according to Mike Manos, AOL Senior Vice President of Technology Operations. As the company builds its portfolio of blogs and web sites – which includes The Huffington Post as well as blogs like Engadget – it is adopting a flexible infrastructure that can deploy server capacity quickly in locations with strong user populations. (Read Full Article)

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