Joyent CTO discusses data center as Information Factory

greenm3.com Oct 17 2012 Construction , Cloud Computing

Joyent's CTO Jason Hoffman just presented on the idea of data centers as Information Factories. at GigaOm Structure Europe. Here is my post on the same concept of data centers as information factories 3 years ago. Can you Green the Data Center? Maybe if you think in terms of an Information Factory WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009 AT 3:14AM I have been writing on the Green Data Center topic for over 2 years with 1,000 blog posts. And, one of the things I have found is the name “data center” is not an accurate description to the layman of what data centers do. Are data centers the “center of data”? In the past there was one corporate building that was the place where data was housed for the corporation. The standard for Fortune 500 companies now is to have multiple data centers around the world to provide information ...

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