Video of Apple's data center in Maiden, North Carolina, which is the location of the nation's largest end-user-owned solar photovoltaic array. The solar array produces energy for Apple's megascale data center in the Tar Heel state.
Mark Harris of Nlyte shares his experiences, including new approaches in the data center exchange of ideas, from attending the recent Data Center World event.
Dean Nelson, senior director of global data strategy, architecture & operations, eBay, was recorded on video as he presents a review of eBay's Digital Service Efficiency measurement system.
Ever wonder about the meaning of a FLOP? This video from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, explores what FLOP means for computing, and more specifically, supercomputing. It also gives an overview of trends in supercomputing and how they impact this measure of computing speed.
Ever wonder about the meaning of a FLOP? This video from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, explores what FLOP means for computing, and more specifically, supercomputing. It also gives an overview of trends in supercomputing and how they impact this measure of computing speed.
AFCOM, the world's leading data center association, named the 2013 finalists for its annual “Data Center Manager of the Year” award, nominating Tate Cantrell, chief technology officer for Verne Global; Donna Manley, senior IT director, computer operations at the University of Pennsylvania; and...
This week's Industry Perspectives represented an intersection of top-of-mind topics for data center professionals and executives -- cloud planning, relocations and networks were the topices covered.
CloudNow, an association for women in cloud computing, honored ten exceptional women in cloud computing this week during Cloud Connect Silicon Valley. “CloudNOW is paying tribute to ten outstanding women in cloud computing for their contributions, accomplishments and thought leadership in our dynamic industry,” said Jocelyn DeGance Graham, founder of CloudNOW. “We’re honored to be part of Cloud Connect and at the cutting edge of the cloud conversation — a place where women are playing a key role.”
During the month of March, Microsoft news dominated our reader's attention, with a feature on its ultra-efficient Dublin data center topping our list of most popular articles on Data Center Knowledge.
A short time-lapse video by ViaWest gives you a bird's eye view of the construction of the providers newest facility in North Las Vegas.
This video gives an overview of JuQueen, a new supercomputer recently unveiled at a research center in Juelich, Germany, which is the fastest supercomputer in Europe, capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second.
What goes into making a supercomputer? For Blue Waters, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) project at the University of Illinois, there will be more than 235 Cray XE6 cabinets, each with 24 blade assemblies. In this video, Cray’s Director of Manufacture Logistics Group Steve Samse demonstrates the assembly of the board and components that make up each blade. The work is being performed at the Cray facility in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. The video runs 2:49 minutes.
The AFCOM Data Center World Spring 2013 conference will bring together data center professionals in a dialogue about real-world events and needs. In response to feedback from data center and facilities management professionals, new AFCOM President and Data Center World Chairman Tom Roberts has put together an educational program of more than 60 sessions that addresses topics such as disaster recovery, cloud, management, data protection, data center design, among other areas.
Technology industry heavyweight IBM announced its move into open cloud architecture, which includes a new cloud offering based on the open-source cloud OS, OpenStack. Here’s a look at the notable analysis and commentary from around the web.
Our contributors to the Industry Perspective channel this week shared thoughts on cloud-ready apps, data warehouse strategy, brokering IT services internally and today's outlook on the vendor scene.
February was a month for "big" news, such as Dell gaining a contract for 3 petabyte storage, a mysterious $1.5 billion project in Iowa, and Microsoft reaching the $15 billion benchmark in data center spending. Here's the month's top posts.
The Industry Perspectives channel at Data Center Knowledge highlights thought leadership in the data center arena, providing industry professionals with the opportunity to share their insight and expertise. An RX for Enterprise Big Data Success; A Forgotten Data Center Cost: Lost Capacity; Navigating Data Center Performance Challenges With KPIs (Part 1); The Changing Enterprise WAN in the Era of the Cloud
Here’s a round up of noteworthy articles published by THE WHIR. Web Host INetU Adds Seattle Data Center to Boost Disaster Recovery; Phoenix NAP Adds Dedicated Server Offering to Ashburn Data Center; Internap Survey Finds Organizations Want Cloud-like Control in Colo Environments ; US Highest Spam Volume in the World: Eleven Email Security Report
Piston Cloud Computing secured $8 million in Series B funding from Cisco and other partners to fuel its product development in the OpenStack enterprise cloud marketplace.
Open Compute Project's open source hardware news gained a large share our reader's attention in January, with three stories related to OCP hitting the month's top 10 list.
There might be lots of “cruft” down there. This video, produced by a data center cleaning company, shows some examples of what really can be happening below the tiles of your data center’s raised floor. Obviously there’s a pitch for data center cleaning and decontamination, but we thought readers might like to peek under the gleaming white tiles and see what can happen below the sub-floor. Video runs 3:41.
We saw several different approaches to server chassis design at last week's Open Compute Summit. An example can be seen in Dell's third generation Open Compute gear, the C8000 chassis. In this video, Dell's Rafael Zamora provides an overview of this chassis design.
A video interview with the Emerson Network Power team gives a closer look at a 45KW rack solution that integrates power distribution and back-up into the Open Rack specification, created with off-the-shelf components.
The first day of the Open Compute Project Summit IV drew a crowd of 1,900 hardware and technology professionals. And there was buzz among the group about the technological innovations. Here's photo highlights of the action in Santa Clara.
