June 6, 2013 -- Data center operator and interconnection provider Equinix announced on Thursday it has opened the first phase of its fifth data center in Zürich, Switzerland, which will meet strong customer demand in the region.Keep on reading: Equinix Opens Fifth Data Center in Zurich, Switzerland
Verizon announced this week it will install Bloom Energy fuel cell systems at three of its California-based locations: two call-switching centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a data center in San Jose. Bloom Energy's solid oxide fuel cells, which are
What grows in the desert Southwest? Data centers, of course. Take a peek at the process of CyrusOne’s construction of a new facility in the outskirts of Phoenix. (Chandler, AZ to be exact.) The 1:33 minute video is a time-lapse (you know we love time-lapse at DCK!) look at the project from shovel-in-ground to commissioning. The timeline spanned from May to December 2012.
Ken Brill, one of the founders of 7x24 Exchange International, an organization for those who design build, operate and maintain mission critical infrastructures, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The group recognized Brill for his lifetime of accomplishments in the data center industry.
A budding, successful relationship between TELUS and Vigilent has prompted TELUS Ventures to invest in the sustainable energy management systems company
Through the acquisition of IPtronics A/S, a leader in optical interconnect component design for digital communications, Mellanox, an interconnect solutions provider, improves existing products. It also unveiled a new Virtual Modular Switch.
Verizon is the latest company to install Bloom Energy fuel cells, announcing it will put systems in three facilities. All of them are in California, however, casting a slight cloud over the announcement IMHO. Two of Verizon call switching centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco, plus a data center in San Jose are expected to generate more than 16 million kilowatt hours of clean electricity for Verizon in California each year. It's part of a bigger $100 million solar and fuel cell project to power 19 facilities in seven states in the U.S., enabling the carrier to generate more than 90 million kilowatts of hours of energy annually.
DataBank’s Minneapolis expansion is underway. The managed data center provider, headquartered in Dallas, acquired VeriSpace last March along with its 10,000 square foot data center in Edina, Minnesota. Just a few months later, the company is announcing today that it is expanding that facility to a total of just over 17,500 square feet of data center capacity.
What's the significance of IBM's acquisition of SoftLayer Technologies? Here's our roundup of notable analysis and commentary from around the web:
Zayo Group expands its nationwide footprint by acquiring Core NAP, SunGard launches Managed Oracle Services, and Savvis extends its cloud-based application database to Asia.
IO is ramping up production of its modular data centers. The company has opened an expanded factory in Chandler, Arizona that will allow it to double its manufacturing capacity.
JouleX's energy management software shows how power-hungry your data centre kit is
June 5, 2013 -- Let me go on the record as stating that the Wal-Mart fears AWS has put into everyone doesn't matter one bit for data center operators. That's right, even though Jeff Bezos and facilities operators offer similar services, we could not be in more different businesses.Keep on reading: Data Center Catharsis: Relax, There’s Enough Cloud for Everyone
Trying to assess just how enormous Amazon Web Services is has become a sort of parlor game among techies. Counting servers is as good a way as any to get a grip on its size and the latest to take a stab at that is Netcraft, which pegs the numbers of AWS web-facing servers at 158,000, up from 118,000 such servers in September, 2012. (Hat tip to Data Center Knowledge for pointing out this interesting research.)
Verizon announced an agreement to install Bloom Energy fuel cell systems at three California locations: two call-switching centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a data center in San Jose. The solid-oxide fuel cells are expected to generate more than 16m kWh of electricity for Verizon each year.
GigaOm's Barb Darrow posts on IBM's acquisition of SoftLayer. Who would have thought 7 years ago when AWS launched that they would be a threat to IBM's business model. IBM’s acquisition of SoftLayer is a bid to make the IT giant relevant in a world where Amazon Web Services has come in from left field to snarf up workloads that IBM would very much like to own. That’s a big problem for Big Blue. Increasingly, IBM is not just competing with age-old hardware and software rivals like Oracle and HP, but also with Amazon. Going forward, IBM will butt heads more with Google and Microsoft, which have staked big claims in public cloud infrastructure. It is interesting to think of this as a battle between IBM's software developers and Amazon Web Service's software developers.
At this year's 7x24 Exchange in Boca Raton Mike Eruzione gave the opening keynote. Going for the Gold Mike Eruzione shares how to overcome any obstacle and go for the gold. When the 1980 US Olympic Men's hockey team, led by Coach Herb Brooks and captained by Mike Eruzione, defeated the mighty USSR team in the semifinals and went on to beat Finland for the gold medal, it truly shocked the world. This stunning achievement, which was captured in the popular 2004 Disney movie Miracle, is considered by many to be the "greatest sports moment of the 20th century.
Indiana University (IU) recently dedicated a new supercomputer called Big Red II. The fastest university-owned supercomputer in the United States, capable of performing one quadrillion floating-point operations per second (1 petaflop), Big Red II uses Cray XE/XK technology, has 676 XK nodes (each containing one AMD “Interlagos” processor and one NVIDIA “Kepler” GPU), and has 344 XE nodes (each containing two AMD “Abu Dhabi” processors). In this 1:26 minute video, WTIU’s Noelle Visser reports on IU’s new supercomputer and the benefits it will bring to the university.
Google and wind farm developer O2, jointly announced that Google will be purchasing the entire electricity output of the new wind farm in northern Sweden to support the Google data center in Hamina, Finland. The 24 turbine project will have capacity of 72MW.
Windstream expands again in North Carolina with a 72,000-square-foot facility, Expedient juggles four data center expansion projects, and a second Equinix data center is selected by online game developer, Wargaming.
With the expansion of cloud computing, big data and new types of data center distribution models – the data center industry has been booming. More organizations are moving towards cloud computing, application virtualization and high-density computing.
Almost a decade ago, before the ubiquity of smart phones, tablets, cloud computing and video streaming, university and industry researchers were already predicting the need for a hybrid packet-optical circuit switch data center network. That vision is now being realized in commercial data centers,...
IBM is acquiring SoftLayer and announcing the formation of a new cloud services division, to make it easier and faster for IBM clients around the world to incorporate cloud computing into their infrastructure mix.
