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    1. 5 Simple Rules for Transforming Your Data Center

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      5 Simple Rules for Transforming Your Data Center
      Hubert “Hu” Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), is responsible for defining the technical direction for HDS and currently leads the company’s effort to help customers tackle their Data Life Cycle requirements. He blogs on Hu’s Blog. Like any other resource, data needs to be managed appropriately to be meaningful to an organization. To make it actionable and turn it into valuable information, data must also be flexibly stored, moved, provisioned, easily accessed and protected. But, transforming storage capacity within the data center is no easy task, especially because IT managers want to achieve this transformation with minimal disruption to the applications and the rest of the infrastructure. Additionally, this transformation becomes exponentially more challenging as data continues to grow and applications become even more reliant on access to this growing deluge of data.
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    2. What is the latest way to Green the Data Center?

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      What is the latest way to Green the Data Center?
      After a long night out on Tuesday night with some amazingly smart data center people it hit me what is changing the data center industry. People. There are more people who are thinking holistically of the role data centers play in IT. The past ways of building data centers are many times wasteful, inflexible and expensive. There are now people who have software backgrounds who are working on data centers. There are process engineers who are working on data centers. The role of data center designer building to align with the companies business is part of a business strategy. Twitter is the latest to announce they are going to a custom data center.
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    3. Data Centers Canada Launches Toronto North Facility Phase 3

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      Data Centers Canada Launches Toronto North Facility Phase 3
      Data center operator Data Centers Canada (www.datacenterscanada.com) announced Tuesday it has opened its Phase 3 data center POD space at its Toronto North facility. The Phase 3 POD has approximately 125 cabinets with single-cabinet, cabinet clusters and private cage configurations available to customers. Located 13 miles north of Toronto in Vaughan, the facility is in close proximity to Pearson International Airport and the downtown financial district. The 8,000 square-foot facility was built in 2004..
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    4. Moving Regulated Industries to the Cloud

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      Moving Regulated Industries to the Cloud
      In heavily regulated industries like health care and banking, misuse of sensitive data has partly led to comprehensive regulatory regimes that make embracing data storage in the cloud difficult. After all, industries like health care and financial services frequently deal with large quantities of highly sensitive personal data; cloud providers routinely move data between their various centers. It can therefore be difficult to know which data center holds which data at any point in time. But as we discuss in a post at GigaOM Pro, regulated industries can certainly make use of existing cloud solutions, and existing examples prove as much.
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    5. Yahoo's Next Efficiency Target: Fan Energy

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      Yahoo's Next Efficiency Target: Fan Energy
      In its ongoing effort to make its data centers more efficient, Yahoo has eliminated the use of humidifiers and chillers in its facilities. What’s next? Fan energy, according to Scott Noteboom, Yahoo’s director of global data center operations, who said the company is busy developing custom racks and server trays. In a presentation Monday at the AFCOM Data Center World Fall 2010 conference in Las Vegas, Noteboom reviewed the evolution of Yahoo’s data center designs, which have targeted multiple barriers to energy efficiency in a series of systematic improvements to each new facility. The newest Yahoo data center, the Yahoo Computing Coop opened last week in upstate New York, is cooled almost entirely by fresh air, resulting in exceptional energy efficiency.
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    6. The Trend Toward Converged Infrastructure

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      The Trend Toward Converged Infrastructure
      The trend toward converged infrastructure -- a whole greater than sum of the traditional IT hardware, software, networking and storage parts -- is going both downstream and upstream. HP today announced how combining and simplifying the parts of IT infrastructure makes the solution value far higher on either end of the applications distribution equation: At branch offices and the next-generation of compact and mobile all-in-one data center containers.
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    7. HP Expands Converged IT Infrastructure Solutions with New Products

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      HP Expands Converged IT Infrastructure Solutions with New Products
      HP (www.hp.com) announced on Tuesday it has launched several new Converged Infrastructure solutions in networking, security and scalable computing that significantly enhance the delivery of application services to business. HP says the turnkey, all-in-one connectivity solution improves the quality of application service in branch offices by eliminating the need for local IT resources. The company's new HP TippingPoint security service provides greater control of application access, with the ability to block access to entire websites or features across the enterprise. For service providers, the new, specialized HP ProLiant SL6500 Scalable System provides a single, high-performance scalable platform for hosting, Web serving, cloud computing or outsourcing a range of applications.
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    8. Countdown to the Cloud

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      Countdown to the Cloud
      here is a delicious feel to the Nebula project—NASA’s cloud services project, which was formally initiated in 2008 at the NASA Ames Research Center. It has many things connected with the skies—literally and figuratively—cloud computing, Nebula, and NASA. Perhaps one of the most technologically intensive “industries” is the space research domain, and perhaps nowhere can cloud computing do more than in this industry. The government wanted to harness the power of cloud computing for swifter dissemination of research-related information among its engineers and scientists. Nebula was brought into being with the view to enable agency researchers to manage scientific data. This means that, with Nebula cloud-computing technology, researchers would be able to access not just computing ability but also storage and bandwidth to transmit information over the Internet. Thanks to its core technology, Nebula was recently chosen to be the main contributor of OpenStack. OpenStack is ...
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    9. Apple’s Most Expensive Acre

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      Apple’s Most Expensive Acre
      One of the major benefits cited for building data centers in rural areas is the lower cost of land. Real estate comes at a premium in major cities, while land is much cheaper in rural areas with abundant open space and modest business activity. These factors allowed Yahoo to acquire land for its new data center in Lockport, N.Y. at a cost of about $8,000 an acre. But the “location, location, location” rule sometimes works in the landowner’s favor, even in places like Maiden, North Carolina. That was the case for Apple, which wound up paying a local couple $1.7 million for a 1-acre tract adjacent to its new data center project in Maiden. Donnie and Kathy Fulbright had lived for 34 years on the site they purchased for $6,000, and were in no hurry to sell.
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    10. Salesforce.com Taps NTT for Tokyo Data Center

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      Salesforce.com Taps NTT for Tokyo Data Center
      Enterprise SaaS specialist Salesforce.com (CRM) will expand its operations in Japan with a new data center in an NTT America facility in Tokyo, the two companies said today. The Tokyo facility will help support Salesforce.com’s growing customer base in Japan once it is completed in 2011. “Salesforce.com has seen explosive growth in Japan,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com. “NTT Com has been a trusted partner for many years, and we look forward to expanding our relationship with them on the new data center to support continued customer success in the region.”
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    11. Q&A: SunGard’s Zandi on Data Center Retrofits

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      Q&A: SunGard’s Zandi on Data Center Retrofits
      With more than 5 million square feet of colocation space, SunGard Availability Services is best known as a leading player in the market for disaster recovery and business continuity services. But SunGard also offers a full suite of managed services as well as consulting services that help companies modernize their data center infrastructure. Dr. Mickey Zandi, Managing Principal at SunGard Availability, is responsible for the company’s data center and IT consulting practices. Zandi has more than 14 years experience in data center design and infrastructure optimization. Zandi agreed to an email question-and-answer session to share some of his experiences with data center design and the cost of building new facilities. DCK: What are the most common data center design challenges you see confronting the companies you consult with at SunGard?
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    12. Beware The Lure Of The Zero Client

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      Beware The Lure Of The Zero Client
      A thin client computing system might be better for your company. The client virtualization industry is constantly evolving, with new technologies, industry alliances, software solutions and hardware offerings being introduced every day. Promising smoother, more seamless deployments or richer end-user experience, these developments also fight for the time and attention of IT managers, who must "keep up," while also maintaining their company's IT infrastructure. With every player in the virtualization industry offering multiple, sometimes competing solutions, there is no single right or wrong solution to desktop virtualization. One notable trend in client virtualization, as manufacturers shift more computing power to the data center, is the decreasing size and complexity of thin clients. These extra-thin clients are known as "zero clients," and serve as the connector from the data center to the user's monitor, printer and peripherals. The promise of zero clients that sounds so attractive is that all ...
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    13. Data centers shuffle off to Buffalo

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      Data centers shuffle off to Buffalo
      Buffalo, N.Y., is becoming one of the hot locations for data centers, partly because of the low cost of hydroelectric power from nearby Niagara Falls. Jim Duffy in Network World reports that Yahoo recently opened a green data center in nearby Lockport and cites a Business First of Buffalo report that Verizon is considering a new data center in Niagara County. In addition into relatively cheap power, the Buffalo area also has cool temperatures, which brings down power costs, and tends to be free of earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters, according to Network World.
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    14. Facebook Urges Changes on Cooling Standards

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      Facebook Urges Changes on Cooling Standards
      Facebook has joined the chorus of major data center operators opposing new guidelines on data center cooling being considered by a key industry standards body. The debate focuses on technical details of a standard being proposed by the Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). Major data center operators say one of the provisions of the new standard could limit innovation in developing energy-efficient cooling systems. In April, seven of the leading data center companies issued an unusual joint statement opposing a provision that favors a specific cooling design using economizers.
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    15. The Limits Of Virtualization

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      The Limits Of Virtualization
      Change is coming to the data center, but not all of it is as good as it sounds. Virtualization and cloud computing have been billed as the next wave for enterprise computing. Taken together these approaches can save a corporation big bucks, improve efficiency through better utilization of server capacity, and in many cases improve performance because they rely on the latest hardware and software. But while this is considered the foundation of the next-generation data center, there are limits to what virtualization and cloud computing can achieve. Forbes caught up with Dave Hart, chief technology officer of systems integrator Presidio, to talk about the myths and reality of what he's seeing in IT departments around the country.
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    16. A Stroll Around Capgemini's 'Green Data Center of the Future'

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      A Stroll Around Capgemini's 'Green Data Center of the Future'
      SWINDON, United Kingdom — There is no longer any need to build data centers from the ground up, they can be manufactured in a factory and dropped directly into a site, according to global consultancy Capgemini. The firm appears to have proof, boldly claiming to have created the most sustainable data center in the world down in Swindon, where the climate is apparently optimal for the fresh-air cooling system it has implemented.
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    17. Intel Ponders Atom-Based Computing Clusters

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      Intel Ponders Atom-Based Computing Clusters
      Intel has confirmed that while it is not looking to position Atom in the mainstream server market, it is considering compute clusters of smaller, Atom-based devices. An Intel executive has reportedly confirmed that the chip giant is not interested in pushing its energy-efficient Atom processor for the server space. Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Centre Group, said in an interview with IDG News that while there are some vendors that are using Atom chips in server designs, and chip designer ARM is looking to push its processor designs into the data centre, most businesses are looking for systems with the power and energy efficiency of the latest Xeon chips.
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    18. Managed Hosting Stocks Lead Pack in 3Q

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      Managed Hosting Stocks Lead Pack in 3Q
      Shares of managed hosting providers led the way as data center stocks once again outperformed the broader market in the third quarter of 2010. The top gainers were Savvis Communications (SVVS) and Rackspace Hosting (RAX), which each gained more than 40 percent for the quarter ended Sept. 30. Not far behind were Terremark Worldwide (TMRK, up 32 percent) and NaviSite (NAVI, up 27 percent). What’s sexy about managed hosting providers these days? These companies are at the intersection of the established enterprise hosting business and the emerging cloud computing ecosystem.
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    19. Verizon pumps new cash into cloud services

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      Verizon pumps new cash into cloud services
      Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 1 October 2010 at 03:44:00 Company planning thousands of new servers Verizon is planning to expand its cloud computing datacentres. The company said that it would be adding some 5,500 new server cabinets as part of an expansion to its facilities in Paris, London, Dublin, Frankfurt and Belgium along with facilities in Australia, Hong Kong and the US. The move is part of an ongoing effort to expand Verizon's enterprise cloud computing services. In particular, the company hopes that the added capacity will help to serve US government customers expected to adopt the service by 2011. In total, the company is planning to spend upwards of $16bn on upgrades to its overall cloud computing platform. Eventually, Verizon said that it hopes to launch a complete IT infrastructure service, a concept the company refers to as 'everything as ...
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    20. GreenQloud Partners with Scality for Green Cloud Hosting and Storage

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      GreenQloud Partners with Scality for Green Cloud Hosting and Storage
      Renewable-energy-rich Iceland offers a lucrative opportunity for organizations' data center and colocation needs, according to Lisa Rhodes, marketing and sales vice president of wholesale data center developer Verne Global. “A core value in the Verne Global model is to achieve the lowest total cost of operations and Iceland's unique landscape makes this a real possibility with an abundance of inexpensive, 100-percent renewable energy supplied by the region's hydro-electric and geothermal electricity resources combined with an advanced smart grid technology,” she said in a Q&A interview with the WHIR. According to GreenQloud’s Tuesday announcement, the Icelandic company will enable it to launch what it describes as the “world's first truly green cloud service,” which is powered solely by Iceland’s geothermal and hydro-electric power. Currently in beta, its cloud services are available for rent by the hour, and clients only pay for what they use so ...
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    21. How to Reduce Data Center Waste

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      How to Reduce Data Center Waste
      It is the silent killer of IT budgets in every industry, for companies of virtually every size: runaway electricity consumption in the data center. Regardless of the ongoing debate about carbon footprints and climate change, Knowledge Center contributor Andy Dominey explains here the most compelling reason for IT executives to pay closer attention to this issue: the opportunity to achieve dramatic and immediate savings by reducing data center waste. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that the computer servers in this country recently consumed 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in a single year. That is about1.5 percent of all electricity consumed in the country —a $4.5B expense. The problem is not about to go away, either. Consider that, in 2011, the EPA expects that data centers' electricity consumption could spike up to as high as 100 billion kWh—a $7.4B expense.
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    22. Major Cloud Buildout for Verizon Business

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      Major Cloud Buildout for Verizon Business
      Verizon Business will undertake a major expansion of its data center network to support its push into Computing as a Service (CaaS) cloud computing offerings. Today’s announcement provides some details on the infrastructure that will accompany Verizon Business’ push into the cloud, which was announced in June. The expansion is perhaps the biggest sign yet of the telecom industry’s growing commitment to cloud services, as well as its ability to invest heavily in the infrastructure required to deliver it.
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    23. Consonus Debunks Green Data Center Myth With Impressive PUE Rating For 15-Year-Old Facility

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      Consonus Debunks Green Data Center Myth With Impressive PUE Rating For 15-Year-Old Facility
      Consonus Technologies, Inc. recently announced the latest Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) score for their West Data Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The 15-year-old facility achieved an impressive PUE rating -- a product of energy efficiency efforts implemented by Consonus over the past year. The industry average is typically between 2.0 and 2.2; Consonus' West Data Center PUE score was considerably lower at 1.35. Developed by The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, PUE is a measure of how efficiently a computer data center uses its power, specifically, the total load required to operate the IT systems plus support systems such as power distribution, humidification, and cooling. The lower the PUE level, the more energy efficient the data center.
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    24. Finland to get new supercomputing data centre for research and education

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      Finland to get new supercomputing data centre for research and education
      The CSC’s current stock of supercomputers in Otaniemi. “THE IT CENTER for Science (CSC) in Finland said it will create a ‘state of the art’ data centre for supercomputers, data storage and other IT systems, which will be completed in 2012. Finland Minister for Education and Culture Henna Virkkunen said the center will focus on energy efficiency and IT Center for Science managing director Kimmo Koski said it will also look to reduce data center costs. ‘The datacenter project is extremely important for Finland,’ Virkkunen said. ‘It will strengthen the international competitive ability for Finnish research by providing an eco-efficient location for the new supercomputer and the services it will make available in Finland.’
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